Northwest frontier

Some hobby activities were done this summer, as usual. The great news from Armies in Plastic (Herodotus's main deliverer of 54mm figures besides good old Airfix)was Indian lancers - or Indian mounted cavalry as they call it. They are produced in different colours but the figures in each box are identical. What you get is: 5 horses and 5 "sowars" - Indian lancers, 5 saddles and 5 lances. Three of the sowars have ringhands so that you can stick the lance through in an attacking pose, but the great thing is that the ringhand is correctly dimensioned and doesn't look like the hand is heavily swollen. One is a buglar (of course) and the last is an officer with an excellent sword ready to cut down the King-Emperor's enemies, be they Afghanis, Germans or whoever.
Very interesting and stirring stuff. I enclose a picture of my new detachment of the Skinner's Horse, or 1st Bengal Lancers, in full charge somewhere along the Northwest Frontier and the Khyber pass!

Apart from that, we have been following the topic of Raj closely this summer and produced a range of buildings in particular for my sprawling Calcutta diorama which - like its original - continues to grow. More on this later. But the summer heat is still there and there is time for more North West wargaming when we return to our summer house and I plan to take a series of pictures to inspire others to take up modelling - this most exiting of all hobbies.