Mameluks

I used two different figure kits for this vignette. Both are sculpted by Victor Konnov for Pegaso Models at 54 mm scale.
Painted with oils over acrylics. I painted the Mameluk with grey horse on April 2008 and presented it as a single figure. Then a collectioner came with the second figure kit and wanted both of them on a single base. I am not sure exactly which month, the vignette was created within the year 2009.
It was a nice project to work on. Napoleon formed his own Mameluk corps, the last known Mameluk force, in the early years of the 19th century, and used Mameluks in a number of his campaigns. Even his Imperial Guard had Mameluk soldiers (1798-1805). This vignette shows two of these Mameluk Guards. The one with the dead horse is an officer.