I had been always attracted by the colourful attires of the Indian Army of the period 1880-1910 and I would like to add to my collection a set of flat figures complete enough to give an idea of the various cavalry and infantry regiments.

I had some good books and colour references for this subject, among which many fine watercolours of Major Lovett and it seemed a pity to leave all this documentation unused.

I made accurate researches by the different Editors, but I did not find what I wanted. In fact, I found many figures of the Indian Mutiny (1850) by the following catalogues: Western Miniatures, Neckel and Wohlmann; but not in the period of my interest.

In reality, the Wohlmann catalogue has some figures of the Indian Army at the end of 20th century and I bought many of these figures even if they are of the type with the rider to be glued or soldered to the horse and not enough accurate (however of good looking when painted, expecially for diorama use).

After waiting several years hoping that some Editor would issue the figures of my dreams, at last I decided to produce myself a series of figures of the Indian Army.

Taking inspiration from the documentation I had, I made the drawings (front and rear) and the reductions to 30 mm scale, I contacted two engravers (Dr.G.Söllner and B.Süssmeier), sent the drawings and documentation and waited for the figures.

I choosed subjects with the possibility of different painting solutions, in order to have the maximum of uniforms (eventually with some little modifications) with the minimum of figures.

The first group of figures includes 4 cavalry figures and two foot figures.

Here you may find some painted figures. Many painting schemes are available. Many more if you apply little modifications.

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