"What tent(s) for British Army in India 1880-1920?" Topic

I think this project has officially gone off the chain, as I am planning on getting a bunch of tents to model the various camps.

Do I need bell tents (sold by Irregular), pup or wall tents (QRF), or what?

Yes, I also want command and hospital tents.

*ding-ding* "Sanity, Departing" *ding-ding*

I went with Renedra and use all their different styles for 28mm just grouped in styles in camps.

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You can sometimes find them cheaper on ebay through ebay stores.

For larger command tents you could try try WWII 1:72?

15mm or 28mm?
Hovels do the bell tent in 15mm

I'm working in 15mm, sorry. Gotta stop posting questions when I'm dead tired.

Well, if pretty much anything will work as long as each regiment has all the same tents I should be OK.

Ordinary troops would start out with bell tents, officers would have privately purchased marquees in a variety of styles – square or round ended, usually with 'hipped' roofs. Some time around the Boer War they started using 'cottage' tents, or in modern re-enactor speak – wall tents, with a 'fly' that covered only the roof and not the ends or sides. These cottage tents which were easier and quicker to put up, generally accommodated 8 Other Ranks or an Officer, and continued in use (in Australia at least) into the 1960's.

There are some useful photos in 'British Campaign Furniture: Elegance under Canvas' by Brawer, if you can get it on Inter Library Loan.

Between the public Library! (yes, they do have an exclamation point, given to them for outstanding customer service) and the university library I should be able to find that.

Thanks for the reference, bsrlee!

PaperTerrain has bell and marquee tents in four different scales.

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Yes, I ordered 5 sets of the 15mm bell tents.

bsrlee,

I'd never heard of that title before, and instantly ran off to abe.books in hope of tracking down a copy for my 19th Century Anglo-Indian military history collection, prepared to have to spend a hundred or possibly a hundred-and-fifty bucks for such a rare, specialist, likely out-of-print title…

…but holy-moly: the most affordable copy on abe.com is $335.00 USD!!!!!

Does look gorgeous, a coffee-table book that looks like it is quite sumptuously illustrated.

Now I may have to follow Lion in the Stars to my local public library, sans exclamation point (service there is not that great), but I'd still like to own a copy. If I can keep from buying too much hobby stuff for the rest of this year, it may become my year-end reward/gift for myself at the turn of 2014.

Thanks for mentioning it, bsrlee!