... and probably the last one, at least in the near future, as I´m out of Indian figures. Including the two last US cavalry companies still on the making, I have around 400 figures total for both sides. The US side at LBH had a total of around 700 men (and one boy on vacations). At a ratio of 1 to 5 you need 140 figures which I already largely overcame (also due to have the same figures both mounted and dismounted), but on the much bigger Indian side, of say 1800 men (a ratio of close to 3:1 in favor of the Indians), you need 360 figures from which I only have around 210, and that is counting with this group, still far from the aim.
The figures are my remnants Revell, Atlantic and resized Airfix. There is an obvious exaggeration of feathered bonnets here, even if these were not exclusive of chiefs, but they were important as I was running out of figures and the feathered bonnets give lots of colour to the group. With so many feathered bonnets no one visiting my collection can call them Egyptians or Celts. The kind of thing that happens quite a lot :).
All stands got spray primed with terracotta from Spectrum also in order to get the skin indian color something that speeded painting a lot as skin color is dominant here.
Next: last companies of 1876 US troopers.
I think 210 indian figures would still be enough for a great looking game, just amazing the amount of figures you can paint.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I´ll try to find at least 2 more boxes of indian Revell so I can use most of them as cavalry conversions a bit as I did with the Revell Normans.
ReplyDeleteVery nice!
ReplyDeleteThanks Bruce. I´m around the last few cavalry companies.
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