These last two weeks and a bit I have been working more like quartermaster than any given armchair General....These weeks were spent working with Obee on the final touches to a project we began one year ago....
Exactly one year go I sat down and started to devise a new dio that would contemplate a substantial supply column. A supply column that could picture it self-winding up the Khyber Pass as well as any grassland of the Transvaal during the second Boer War or even the second Sudan Expedition.... Well I thought that would be an easy task....well not so! First I had to source the mules and the loads...For that I had to tap the right sources of Mountford, Hinchcliffe/Rose and Asset miniature mules and mule handlers..and that is not readily available at your favourite internet hobby shop!....Just that was a logistic nightmare....The mule handlers....I thought this would be easy for I had plenty of Stadden rank and file that could be paired to the mules...errrr wrong.....Obee kindly shed light to the main error many manufacturers do....(Here I list Trophy, WBritains and all the rest...Little Legion escapes the block because they do offer the Indian handlers, and the buyer can order them or not). Obee pointed out that when on overseas duty the British army employed Indian Army contingents to move their supply columns as well as taking part of the fighting....So here I was also sourcing the Indian mule handlers......Luckly after an one year work, Obee plays his magic, and makes the whole thing come true....In this sequence I will show the mule handlers, two Indian mountain gun detachments ( Hinchcliffe and Rose). These two manufacturers along with Mountford in their golden days were the best mountain gun set ups I have ever seen...The mules I will skip showing, I prefer to introduce them to the picture once the dio is set up....
Hope you enjoy this one off set....
Hardly would I attempt saying a second one can be put together due to the scarcity of the figures needed..
Cheers
Luiz
