Despite a trip to the US last week I managed to finish the officer and two more men for the RLMI; so that is a third of them done.
Although the RLMI had white leather equipment in the Sudan the officer's revolvers holsters and belts were brown.
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Re the R.M.L.I. uniforms, this same uniform was worn at Suakim, according to an article on the Gordon Relief Expedition that appeared in Military Modeling. However, if my memory serves me, this order of dress included the brass helmet spike on this occasion. This was the first time the new gray tropical uniform was worn. Some other regiments wore the gray tunic with khaki trousers.
An interesting depiction of the battle of El Teb was done on a contemporary print by Bacon & Co., London. They also covered other battles in the Sudan.
A record of the building of British, Egyptian and Mahdist Armies from the war of 1883 to 1885 using 28mm figures.
My interest in Colonial Wargaming
My interest in Colonial Wargaming was largely ignited by my father, who was a big fan of the film Zulu and always wanted what he called a "Stanley Baker pith helmet". He was in the Sherwood Foresters, who were in Egypt in 1882 but not the Sudan.
It was many years before I started to paint Colonial wars figures and these were the ESCI/ERTL Zulu War plastics. I had always thought that if I did colonials I would do the Zulu War, if anything, although I was also interested in the North-West frontier. The problem was that there just weren't (and still aren't) a range of figures that met my standards.
When the Perry Brothers released their Sudan figures, therefore, I knew I had to have them, even though the Sudan theatre would not have been my first choice. However, once I started to read up on it I decided that it was, for so many reasons, a very good period to game: large battles, patrols, skirmishes, steamboats, Gatling guns and very varied troop types from British on camels to Egyptians in chainmail. Wonderful!
My initial plan is to build the British army for El Teb and Tamai with a Beja army to oppose them. Next I aim to go back in time to do Valentine Baker's Egyptian force for first El Teb. Then I will move forward to do the Desert and River columns and adding Nile Arabs as opponents before finishing off with the battle of Ginnis and the British forces wearing their red coats for the last time in battle.
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Re the R.M.L.I. uniforms, this same uniform was worn at Suakim, according to an article on the Gordon Relief Expedition that appeared in Military Modeling. However, if my memory serves me, this order of dress included the brass helmet spike on this occasion. This was the first time the new gray tropical uniform was worn. Some other regiments wore the gray tunic with khaki trousers.
An interesting depiction of the battle of El Teb was done on a contemporary print by Bacon & Co., London. They also covered other battles in the Sudan.
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