by madguru | Jul 27, 2020 | Afghan Regular Army, Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Flags, History
Welcome to the new version of Maiwand Day. Today, July 27th 2020, is the 140th Maiwand Day. The 140th Anniversary of the 1880 battle. After ten years maintaining MaiwandDay on blogger.com, I am migrating to this website of my own here at MaiwandDay.com. My older...
by madguru | Sep 12, 2013 | Afghan Regular Army, Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, History, Uniforms
I’ve just created a NEW PAGE for this blog, displaying a set of 12 colour plates done by the somewhat legendary military historian and artist Ian Heath. Mr. Heath kindly and generously gave his permission for me to make this very difficult-to-find artwork of...
by madguru | Sep 9, 2012 | Afghan Regular Army, Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier
Recently on the Colonial Wars Yahoo Group there has been some discussion of 25mm-28mm figures available to model the Afghan regular army of the Second Afghan War (1878-1880) era.As someone with close to a lifelong interest in the subject, I couldn’t help but get...
by madguru | Jul 30, 2011 | Afghan Regular Army, Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, British Army, Miniature Figures
Took some pics to try out a new camera. I think they turned out pretty well…(please click on any to blow them up to full-size)NOTE: The mounted gunnery officer is an Empress Miniatures Anglo-Zulu War artillery battery commander, as seen here:(click on pic to see...
