Crimean War British Scots Greys heavy cavalry blackseas-holdfast Boromite handlers take great pride

Boromite handlers take great pride in such creatures

The boxed set contains 18 superbly detailed miniatures sculpted by Paul Hicks - representations of the cast of the classic TV series

Some of the chariot horses also began to acquire scale armour covers for battle

and it never saw action

Crimean War British Scots Greys heavy cavalry blackseas-holdfast Boromite handlers take great prideThe Scots Greys, a Dragoon regiment named for their famous grey horses, arrived in the Crimea in 1854, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Henry Griffith arrived and assigned to Brigadier General Sir James Scarlett's Heavy Brigade. On 25 October 1854, as part of the Battle of Balaklava, they repelled a numerically superior Russian Cavalry force of approximately 3,000 sabres (alongside the British dragoons under the same command), inflicting 270 casualties