Some small advances in Egypt: 2mm Colonial

Hello All, just to offer apologies, and let you know that I have been feeling a little off-colour lately, but the Surgeon Major has now passed me fit for duty once again (Good shot of Collis-Brown's Mixture, old chap!), so hopefully the rather sparse nature of all things Blog-like should be changing in the near future.

Just to prove that I haven't been malingering, a few quick shots of the work that has progressed, if even with the pace of an overladen artillery mule....

The Elephant guns have had some daubings applied, and the gun itself mocked up from some plastic tube, giving a rather monstrous looking gun:

I'm still unsure as to whether to actually depict the drag-chains attaching the elephant pair and the gun, or to base them up as is; this will probably come down to how fiddly the exercise will be versus whether it will actually add to the model - anyway, watch this space...

Next up, we have a small skirmish line of Egyptian infantry, which I am thinking may appear alongside some Camel Corps troops I am currently undercoating, making use of Irregular's ABG23 Camelry from their Ancients range, given the size of the sculpts, and the fact that they don't have noticeably large spears or anything, these should be alright for double duty in a later era...

Finally, the Egyptian auxiliary types have rather turned into what is becoming a cloud of Mahdist troops, and the more I look at these, and also consider the simplicity of their paint jobs, (black undercoat, white jibba, few spots of colour for patches, the odd stroke of brown or silver to the front for weapons and done) I am getting tempted to head south into the Sudan.....like Hicks Pasha, this should probably be avoided if I want to keep the project within strict limits, but then again....

So, sorry to leave any of my regular readers feeling as bereft and beleaguered as these Berkshire boys below at Maiwand, but hopefully a more normal Blog service will now be resumed.....

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