Based & Completed Skinners Horse

A trip over to York today and the basing department had a few goodies for me to bring home, including this iconic unit, Skinners Horse.

They are one of those units I didnt feel I could do without if I was doing India, I had a bit of fun when doing them. First of all though a big thank you to chum Chris who picked up these two lovely jungle bases for me from The Last Valley, absolutely lovely thank you, using tem in all of these photos. 

You might remember that most of these figures were actually Hodson horse with no cummerbands, I added greenstuff to create cumberbands for them along with the Old Wagames Foundry figure the rest are all Emrpess figures. 

I particularly like this shot of them galloping into action. The irregular horse, forunners of the Bengal Lancers, had a mix of weapons which probably included lances, I have dropped a couple in as a nod to this.

The troopers (Sowars) were expected to provide their own horses and equipment, usually bought from the regiment but uniformity of horse colours was less of a concern with these units.

In this close up you can see the Wargames Foundry lancer on the left, I dont think he looks out of place at all.

These guys will add a real dash of colour to the collection, not that it needs it!

Looking forward to a game with them in the near future, fingers crossed!