New releases - Colonial German Infantry and dismounted British Cavalry

Jacklex Miniatures have announced the release of a number of new figures.  The figures show their Jacklex origins allowing them to fit in and alongside the existing ranges.

First up, the new Colonial figures; The German Colonial Infantry range.  

 and Askaris

Next British Colonial Dismounted cavalry, kneeling and standing firing.

The figures are available from jacklexminiatures.com

Jack's Colonial Army

Jack has allowed Bob to take all his Colonial figures so we can have a game with them.  Bob has put all the figures on the table and whilst we have played with them in the past it has been with parts of the collection.  For the first time Bob has put out all the British, Indian and Sudanese and supporting artillery on the table together,  We both think there are some more floating about but even so they look impressive and it is the first time we have seen them like this.  So I went and took some pictures before they go back in their boxes.  

Bob also laid out the Mahdist forces.. Jack painted the overwhelming bulk of these figures over 40 years ago,

The really good thing is that these lovely figures are now available from https://www.jacklexminiatures.com

Mahdist Forces

Jack made the scratch built the fort.

20mm Jacklex Russian, Pathans, Indians and British the game that never was

It has been a long time since my last post.  I have been busy on our other site www.abcwargamers.blogspot.co.uk.  I set up a game for Jack Bob and myself using Jack's 20mm Russian, British and Indians and my Pathans.  All the figures  with the exception of a couple of my Pathans are Jacklex 20mm.

Interestingly, although Jack made the Pathan range he never painted any, choosing instead to use them in his Madhist army.

Having put all the figures out for a game fighting across the table, I decided at the last minute to change this and fight along the length of the table.  The report of that game is on our sister site, www.abcwargamers.blogspot.co.uk.  However, I took a lot of pictures of the table and the figures before changing it, so I thought I would post them here is anyone is interested.  Some pictures will seem similar to the game as I kept the basic scenario the same.

One interesting development is I think Bob and I persuaded Jack to make standard bearers for the Russians.  We shall wait and see.

20mm Colonial Standard Bearers at last!

Finally, the 2 British Colonial Standard Bearers that Bob discovered the moulds for on Jack's workbench.

Like them so much might get him to run off a couple more to make command stands and unit standard bearers. I know that they stopped caring flags into battle in the  late 1870s, early 1880s, but they look nice.