| Tango01 | 19 Jan 2016 12:43 p.m. PST |
Still within the Levantine range, the Perry brothers releases four sets of British cavalrymen. WW37 Yeomanry Cavalry command patrolling
link WW38 Yeomanry Cavalry, patrolling
linkWW39 Yeomanry Cavalry command, helmets, charging
link WW40 Yeomanry Cavalry charging
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Armand |
79thPA  | 19 Jan 2016 12:53 p.m. PST |
Those would be useful for a number of things. |
| Fred Cartwright | 19 Jan 2016 4:17 p.m. PST |
Kudos to the Perry's for choosing to do something different. As always their stuff is top notch. |
| Joppyuk | 20 Jan 2016 3:07 a.m. PST |
A couple of useful books on this.
With the Lincolnshire Yeomanry in Egypt and Palestine 1914-1918, by Colonel Winteringham.
The Desert Mounted Cprps, an account of the cavalry operations in Palestine and Syria 1917-1918, by Lt-Col Preston (pub 1921) |
| uglyfatbloke | 20 Jan 2016 3:17 a.m. PST |
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| Henry Martini | 20 Jan 2016 6:33 a.m. PST |
These are for the Perry WW2 range, Joppyuk. |
| Griefbringer | 20 Jan 2016 8:16 a.m. PST |
I presume Very British Civil War gamers might be delighted. |
| lou passejaire | 20 Jan 2016 9:35 a.m. PST |
and dismounted cavalry is in the pipeline … |
| Jemima Fawr | 20 Jan 2016 9:45 a.m. PST |
Griefy, oh indeed… Those shirts will look great in black… :) |
| Tango01 | 20 Jan 2016 11:26 a.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed them my friends!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| Joppyuk | 20 Jan 2016 1:11 p.m. PST |
Henry, I'm sure that won't stop me painting a few up. They're very nice figures. |
| Jemima Fawr | 20 Jan 2016 2:35 p.m. PST |
I'm not up to speed on WW1 & WW2 Pith Helmet patterns, but as they're dressed in shirt-sleeves, breeches and long puttees and equipped with cavalry equipment that would appear to be equally applicable to WW1, I can't see why you couldn't use them for WW1, to be honest. |
| Henry Martini | 20 Jan 2016 7:11 p.m. PST |
You've picked the nit: that's the pith helmet introduced in the 1930s to replace the Wolseley pattern used since circa 1904. Still, head swaps will take care of that, and the Perrys do make a range of separate heads. |
| Jemima Fawr | 20 Jan 2016 9:29 p.m. PST |
I thought that might be the sticking-point. The chaps in helmet should be ok though (very minor differences between the Mk I & Mk II Battle-Bowler notwithstanding)? |
| Henry Martini | 21 Jan 2016 3:02 a.m. PST |
Steel helmets were definitely worn on the western front, but I don't recall any photos showing them on cavalry in the middle-east. Hopefully greater authorities on the period than me will respond. |
