White Coated Egyptian infantry and standard bearers

I know that Mark at jacklexminiatures.com says that he will be offering a marching version of the white coated Egyptian infantry in the future as an extension to the range but I sort of wanted some now.  I used the existing Sudanese/Egyptian infantry advancing figure as it was what I had to hand and spent ages cutting, sanding and filing the belt straps on this figure, The painting was so simple once it was done.

This is the first 'half' of the unit.

 The mounted officer is the Egyptian mounted officer but on a stationary horse with his pistol cut off and the arm bent with a pair of pliers.

I started by making a standard bearer conversion using the advancing pose and cutting away the rifle bending the arm and drilling and fixing a rod in place. 

Whilst this is okay he looks like what he is an infantryman with a flag instead of a rifle.  I wasn't happy and decided to convert the British Standard bearer instead, having had some success with a Russian conversion I found after many years.  This figure has some odd packs on the back.

I cut the bulk of this away with a pair of snips and then cut, filed and sanded the remainder away.  A quick head swap and I think this is a much better figure and is more in keeping with Jack's original concept of a 'Standard bearer'.

I painted the figure in a variety of different uniforms. 

Now with the second unit of Egyptians complete with flag and a Sudanese standard bearer with the national flag to go with the existing force in Jack's colonial army