It was recently that I discovered I have been so busy painting American line infantry I had neglected my crown forces. Yes, I have some British line and guards and Highlanders but few loyalist, no Grenadiers and a single Hessian battalion. Time to correct this.
To get started I painted up a small group of 12 Jagers. Inspired by reading Captain Ewalt's journal years ago I find that Jagers are ubiquitous and turn up in almost every battle. So they will be super useful troops. Their plain uniforms were easy to paint and I did these in a couple of days. I am experimenting with different basing for skirmish type troops. Single based figures just do not look right to me. So now I am trying a longish thin base to look like a skirmish line. After a couple games we will see. Figures are from Minden miniatures and although from the Seven Years War period will not look out of place on my American Revolution battlefields.
Handsome poses and beautiful painting!
ReplyDeleteVery nice job Mark - I agree with your philosophy about light and skirmish troops - I always put fewer figures on the base for these types of troop EG typically I have three or on occasion four line infantry per base, but lights or skirmishers EG 95th Rifles - I only have two!
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