HaT British Camel Corp Photos

The new HaT Industrie British Camel Corps sets have started making it into the shops. This photo shows the box and the contents of this set.
















You get twelve camels, and twelve British soldiers from the 1880's. Nine of the soldiers are riding the camels and three are kneeling firing over the kneeling camels.
















Until now, I have not really collected British Colonial, apart from a few Zulus and a few of the Esci British Colonial troops. It was not an era well covered in soft plastic figures and I did not want to invest a lot of money in metal figures. Now HaT has changed all that and is making a wide range of British Colonial sets.















These troops are wearing sun hats and are armed with Martini Henry rifles. The camels come in three poses and the troops come in four poses. All are well detailed and flash free. I intend to build a small army of British Colonial troops, starting with a few sets of these and then some of their new Egyptian Camel Corps. They are the same as this set, but the people are in Egyptian uniforms, the animals are the same.

I have always been surprised that Airfix did not make these sets in the 1960s, since they are a British company and there have been many excellent movies for the period. With the death of Charlton Heston, my wife and I watched Karthoum and 55 Days at Peking.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/khartoum/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056800/

Both of these are excellent and exciting movies and we enjoyed them immensely. Now with these new HaT figures I can begin to play these wars in miniature. RedBox is also releasing figures for the Boxer Rebellion soon too, so they will fit right in this period.

I suspect some of these will be converted into pre ACW Americans and a few will be converted to carry WWII era GI's and Germans for Tunisia. A great set, thanks HaT.