Redoubt Paddle Steamer completed

With the completion of the infantry, the Redoubt kit is now finished after 4 months.  I'm planning an initial gaming scenario using it as a Congo paddle steamer with my Darkest Africa stuff while I get on with painting sufficient Beja opposition to use it in a Sudan game.

The Redoubt illustration doesn't allow for the figures to be based, and doesn't include all the figures that come in the set (eg the chaps stoking the engine)

Cressida Rose

Given that the bases take up space on deck there are more figures in the set than appear in the pictures above.  At some point I think I'll also fashion some steam to attach to the smokestack...

13th (Somersetshire) Light Infantry - Part Two

With these last 6 figures, I've now completed the full Redoubt Paddle Steamer set.  Will take some pics of the full set tomorrow, but for now, these are the last of the infantry.

The other half of the firing line...

The full company (without officers as yet) on magnetised bases for Black Powder

13th (Somersetshire) Light infantry - Part One

In addition to the Paddle Steamer itself, crew, support weapons and Naval Brigade, the Redoubt Paddle Steamer kit comes with a company of British Sudan infantry.  I had a bit of a dilemma in deciding on how to paint these - whether to go with the later Sudan uniforms of grey or khaki, or go for scarlet so that I could use the unit alongside my Zulu Wars British infantry.  In the end I opted for the earlier uniform, choosing that of the 13th (Somersetshire) Light Infantry, counterparts for my existing companies of the 24th foot (like this chap) who took a bit of a pasting at Isandlwana.  And scarlet was worn in the Sudan (by the Yorkshire Regiment at the Battle of Ginniss at the end of 1885) so they'll be good to take on the Beja at some point too.  Just six more of these chaps to go and that will be all the elements of the Steamer kit.

Royal Artillery 7lb Screw Gun

Aside from the Nordenfelt machine gun, the Cressida Rose Paddle Steamer also comes complete with a 7lb Rifled Muzzle Loading (RML) screw gun from Redoubt Miniatures.  Several of these mountain guns were deployed in the Anglo-Zulu war and in the First and Second Boer Wars.  Given their provenance I have painted the Royal Artillery crew in the earlier Zulu War uniforms as opposed to those worn in the later Sudan campaigns.  

The gun isn't glued onto the base and hence can be overrun on the table top by rampaging Zulus...

The view from the business end, behind hasty fortifications

The gun in situ in the bows of Cressida Rose

The captain observes as fire is directed at the natives on the far bank...