Great War Spearhead II - Gallipoli 1915 in 20mm (part 3): The British with Kitchener´s helmet and KD uniform

 

I made these British for Gallipoli years ago and now it was time for some GWSH II rebasing. The figures are conversions using Esci parts, WW2 desert British bodies with Esci Colonial heads. 

The result is not the best as the Wolseley´s helmet was larger than the late XIX century one from Esci. Even so they gave me some work and, just because of that, they entered the shelves. There are two different command stands as the one with the piper can go to any of the brigades of the 52nd division. The machine gunners are Esci WW2 British with half of the ammunition pouches cut out. The same happened to all figures. 

The newer Hat industries WW1 British tropical infantry box depicts very well the Gallipoli units equipped with the KD uniform. Mine are just in shirt order but in the future, while expanding the army, I´ll try to get some of the Hat tropical infantry. 

Even if the British were much more careful with the uniform than say the Anzacs, after some time in the Gallipoli trenches their look was not the same upon the arrival. 

Another possibility is to use the figures as Anzacs (see the left figure). Obviously the piper is out. 

Left: a small break in the Gallipoli series with some more WW2 British for the Western Desert.