Orphaned Painting
Northstar steampunk
I keep on looking at the official Silver Bayonet figures longingly, but I hadn’t taken the plunge : I think I was scarred by the Napoleonic Wargames club my school ran in the 1980s. So much humbrol enamel.
I remembered that I had a box of figures for the long forgotten ‘In Her Majesty’s Name’ languishing at the bottom of a drawer. ‘Lord Curr’s Company’ is also by Northstar and contained a couple of miniatures in uniform, so an ideal test for me painting pseudo historicals.
Group Shot
Corporal Hughes
Private Johnston 
Partisan or poacher? 
Mohan SinghThe red coats were actually a pleasure to paint, a mix of Vallejo game colour, Monument Pro Acryl, and a dash of Citadel contrast as a wash on the trousers. I’m sure I could use them in Silver Bayonet.
The miniature in regular clothes is sufficiently neutral that he could be used in a variety of games from a bandit in Silver Bayonet to a partisan in World War 2.
Mohan Singh is a puzzle. I think it’s a great mini and it’s always nice to see some representation in our hobby. However his ridiculous weapon makes him almost unusable, and the muscle bound Sikh is a bit of a tired cliche. I wonder where it started?
However it did send me down a Google research hole where I discovered that there were East India Company troops in Egypt in 1801. So there’s a new project : a Silver Bayonet troop of Indian soldiers.
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