Pendraken produced a number of Indian
riflemen in their figure ranges. There were
two in the WW1 Middle East range, two in
the WW1 British range in Western Front kit
and two Sikh Indians in the 1890s North
West Frontier Colonial range. I needed 24
Indian riflemen for a half battalion of the
96th Indian Rifles (see Post 9) – half a
battalion at of 1:10 but a full battalion at 1:20,
the figure scale specified in If the Lord Spares
96th Indian Rifles
Us (see Post 14). I made a start by painting
and basing 18 riflemen from the Middle East
range. The figure poses had a very wide gait,
which was one of the reasons I settled on
using 15mm deep infantry bases instead of
something narrower. The officer that came
with the figures was the taller of the two
officer figures I used on my battalion
command base (see Post 15).
I also based my first 10mm machine gun. The
Indian machine gun from Pendraken’s Western
Front range (BP19 Indian Vickers Mkl MG) is
similar to the other
Pendraken Imperial
machine gun figures in
that the belt-feeder is
lying on his stomach.
This pose takes up space
and means the mini-
atures will not fit on any
base smaller than the
25mm round base I
mounted them on.
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