Continental Infantry in brown coats and red facings. The figures are not as shiny as they look in the image!
Okay.
The next time I take an extended break I promise to repost old entries, put out a message . . . please trust me, I'm not dead! With an early retirement and a brood of grandchildren we have been visiting and spoiling. Amaze, amaze, amaze. Okay, back to toy soldiers.
I decided to try something different and added a mounted officer to this unit. Having a space for it was easy since the infantry command sprue has a space to add another standard bearer if you want it to be a British unit. For the second rank I carefully cut out the figure - don't worry if you cut or scrap the chaps next to him, the horse will had the cuts in the second rank.
When adding the mounted office, you will need to remove the base from the horse. I also discovered that the horse is too wide to fit in the space. No worries! Carefully cut down the flanks until you get a fit; the cuts you make will be hidden once you glue the horse into place.
Close up of one of the stands with an NCO on the right. That's about as much detail that I'm doing with this scale and they look great at gaming distance.
The colors carried are a representation (educated guess) of the Fort Stanwix flag. On August 3, 1777 officers of the garrison of Fort Stanwix (successfully defended during the Saratoga Campaign) in what is now Oneida County, NY, made a “Continental Flag.” It may be the first flag based on the Continental Congressional Flag Resolution of June 14th, 1777. The Fort Stanwix flag commonly associated with the August 1777 siege is described as a 13-stripe design in red and white, possibly with a blue field and stars, though its exact appearance remains debated among historians. Other forts and some units carried similar flags throughout the war.
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