Mutineer Miniatures' Sepoys

These 'delightful' chaps have been sitting in the painting queue for far too long and it wasn't until I actually saw them in the flesh on the Mutineer Miniatures' stand at 'Salute' that I decided to give them a go.

I'm now wishing that I hadn't waited so long as they were a delight to paint and really came up well.  I decided not to emblazon their regimental number on the white covered Kilmarnock cap choosing instead to  use a single colour, in this case yellow, to indicate regiment.  Ultimately this gives me a little more time to decide where my force came from.  The yellow facings here could represent a number of Bengal Native Infantry regiments as follows:

1st - Mutinied at Cawpaore

2nd - Disarmed or disbanded at Barrackpore

3rd - Mutinied at Phillour and Loodinah

4th - Disarmed or disbanded at Nurpur and Hoshiarpore

8th - Mutinied at Dinapore

18th - Mutinied at Bareilly

21st - Mutinied at Peshawar

36th - Mutinied at Jullundur

37th - Partially mutinied at Benares

41st - Mutinied at Sitapore and Mullaon

42nd - Partially mutinied at Saugor

47th - Disarmed or disbanded  at Mirzapore

48th - Partially mutinied at Lucknow

53rd - Mutinied at Cawnpore

54th - Mutinied at Delhi

61st - Mutinied at Jullundur

62nd - Disarmed or disbanded at Multan

63rd - Disarmed or disbanded at Berhampore

64th - Disarmed or disbanded at Fort Mackeson and Peshawar

65th - Disarmed or disbanded at Ghazepore

67th - Mutinied and disbanded at both Agra and Mutera

68th - Mutinied at Bareilly

70th - Disarmed or disbanded at Barrackpore

72nd - Mutinied at Neemuch

73rd - Mutinied and disbanded at both Jalpaigori and Dacca

74th - Mutinied at Delhi

They have been sculpted wearing dhoti, which was the ordinary civilian loincloth, the trousers often been the first item of European uniform to be discarded.