"Uniform of the Guides 2nd Anglo-Afghan War" Topic
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| jbfrage | 09 Dec 2013 3:58 p.m. PST |
Hey everyone, Sorry for packing TMP with my posts, but as I mentioned I've been in painting mode for the last few weeks getting my figs ready for some games I'm going to host in the new year. I'm looking for some uniform information on the Guides during the 2nd Anglo-Afghan War. Also, any other info about the units would be most helpful as well. Thanks! J |
| John the OFM | 09 Dec 2013 5:23 p.m. PST |
Rent the DVD for "The Far Pavilions". Besides being superb Colonial entertainment (with enough kissy parts to please the Memsahib) it was also recommended to me by the late Lynn Bodin as being very historically accurate re uniforms for the Guides. |
| Mapleleaf | 09 Dec 2013 5:54 p.m. PST |
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| rigmarole | 09 Dec 2013 7:19 p.m. PST |
The film mentioned by the OP is based on M.M. Kaye's novel Far Pavilions. Maybe have a look at Kipling's "Ballad of East and West," which makes a lot of the élan of the Corps of Guides. As for uniforms, its basically khaki and brown leather webbing. The only thing you need to pay some attention to is the headdress: khaki pagri with red kulla for foot and patterned (dark blue, light blue, white) pagri and red kulla for the cavalry (if Muslim). See above illustration. By the way I just learned that the canteens would have a khaki canvas cover and a dark metal cap. There's an older TMP thread on this topic too:
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| Florida Tory | 10 Dec 2013 5:21 a.m. PST |
Dale Hurtt painted a platoon painted for me many years ago in exactly the manner that John describes, that is, following the uniforms in "The Far Pavilions." He used inks; that and the khaki with red combination makes it one of my best looking colonial units. (The other incidentally is a platoon of the dark green-uniformed Cokes Rifles that Dale also did in inks.) After reading Younghusband's The Story of the Guides recently, I've decided my next colonial unit should be the Guides Gurkha company. Younghusband's book, by the way, can be obtained here, for free: gutenberg.org/ebooks/16808 Rick |
| Mad Guru | 10 Dec 2013 2:36 p.m. PST |
Hi, J, Excellent replies above! I'll throw in a LINK to a post devoted to some beautifully-painted GUIDES infantry & cavalry on fellow Second Afghan War-gamer Michael "Reggie" Davis's Horse and Musket blog… link
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| jbfrage | 11 Dec 2013 5:21 a.m. PST |
Thanks again everyone for all the great information! I really appreciate it! J |
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