I really want to add an Egyptian cavalry unit of some type to my Mahdist wargame forces.

In 1/72, there’s not much available. I have, with some difficulty acquired the Strelets Turkish Regular Cavalry set:
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=1879

Gendarmes in blue? Near enough to regular cavalry? Some type of Bashi Bazoouk?

It’s also difficult to find any uniform information. I have seen wargames’ figures of Egyptian cavalry in white (though with the regulation jacket rather than the zouave-style one) but with inexplicable mid blue trousers. Where does this come from??

Any advice is welcome as I really want to start painting.

From memory , as a rule of thumb, white =summer uniform, Blue = Winter for mostif not allarms of service for the Egyptian army, but your right information is very hard to come by, I remember the struggle I had trying to find out.

Thanks, Allen. I actually found some answers from the same question asked at the nearly defunct HaT forum.

donald

Speaking of HaT...more Egyptians would have been a very welcome addition to HaT's Victorian era (British colonial) line, which was fantastic. But this line seems to have stalled for a very long time at just one set of new zulu warriors. Their overall production output has slowed to a trickle if not a very slow drip over the recent years which is both sad and frustrating.