India: French Artillery and Commanders for both sides

French artillery completed; artillery crew from Jacdaw, guns from foundry ....

The french commander has arrived, the Count de Lolly (historically de Lally), and an aide from the Compagnie des Indes - 'a cheval et a pied'; figs Jacdaw and Foundry.

The rather portly british commander Lord Clove (historically Clive)  has managed to get onto his horse and is accompanied by his aide from the Madras european regiment (also shown on foot) figs Front Rank and Foundry.

India: Batallion - Compagnie Des Indes

The French increase their forces, the newly raised battalion of the 'Compagnie Des Indes' (morphed by changing the command stand from one of my Wittenberg battalions).

[figs : Front Rank figurines plus a couple of Irregular Miniatures]

India: British Artillery

Lord Clove and his aide inspect the newly arrived artillery company ...

[figs Foundry guns and crew, Oxen + limbers Front Rank]

Note: The native artillery cannon in one of my previous posts were sourced from Irregular Miniatures, Marlburian 25/28mm range - code LM31 Field Gun.

Carribean: Photo Backdrop completed

I've been searching in art shops and local charity shops for a seascape of the carribean (or similar) which I could use to modify to make the backdrop for posing piccies of pirates etc.; last week I 'struck gold', a nice little print of a watercolour (just 99p) - so it's been adapted by placing some extra jungly bits in front to cover up some of the detail in the foreground which wasn't quite right. Here it is with a few figures...

India: Lord Clove Inspects the Troops

Lord Clove recently appointed to the East India Companies' Madras station inspects some of the newly arrived Witenberg volunteers, in the company of his daughter and an officer from the Madras european regiment.

(figs Infantry - RSM; civilians - mix of Foundry, Old Glory and Blue Moon)

What's up next ...

A number of things are getting ready for the painting table, on the India front I have

Artillery crew for French
Artillery crew for British
Some European Civilians

All the pirate figures are ready to enter the painting queue as well. Also I will be assembling little piles of lead for India, firstly to complete all the European units - I'm trying to get the uniforms and figures used such that with a swap of command stand they can be used for actions between Wittenberg and Monrovia in Europa

India: Native Artillery

Native artillery practising, with supervision from a french artillery detachment

[Figs: cannon - Irregular Miniatures; limbers and oxen - Front Rank; crew - Foundry; french - Jacdaw 30mm]