The Strelets Turkish artillery is a pretty good start point, for Egyptian artillery , and a paint job does the trick. Mahdist guns as you say were captured guns , so the same guns will do, the crews are a problem, these were often captured too and worked the guns in chains, as slaves or very closely supervised volunteers. They would make a very good subject for a set,seeing at Strelets have the guns already.

Thanks, Alan. I had forgotten about the Turkish artillery set, which I don't think I ever purchased. The gun in that set is the same as the one I used from the Boer artillery set, though, at least according to PSR. But the PSR review shows lots of Turkish gun crew in the set who could easily be recruited as Egyptians, as you say. I'll see if I can acquire one of those sets somewhere. I wonder if the Russian mountain guns in that same Strelets' Russo-Turkish line resemble anything that was used in the Sudan?

I have not done the period for a while, so my memory of researching it is hazy, but as a guide if the Egyptians had it, then the other guys probably did too.