Epic Revolution Part 22: American Riflemen

 

"Two shots. Aim for the officers. Wait until they're 50 yards away", the general said.

Just a quick post featuring the American Riflemen figures from Warlord Games Revolution! Epic range. You have to have at least one unit of rifles! And don't forget - they can be classed as Continentals (no bayonets) or Militia.

2nd Quarter Update for 2026

Summer! Grandchildren! Travel! Oh . . . and doing some gaming and painting as well! With celebrating 250 years of Independence and freedom I've been focusing on the American War for Independence. So, how are we doing?

1. Phase 3 of the Boxer Rebellion Project for The Men Who Would be Kings. To complete my Chinese Field Force for the Boxer Rebellion I'm going to add two Boxer units of 16 figures each. The Boxers will be from Crusader Miniatures Boxer Rebellion Range. I anticipate doing this in the 3rd Quarter.

Figures from Wargames Foundry.

Kansu Braves from Crusader Miniatures.

2. The American War for Independence in the South. Wow. This was the big progress so far this this year as I jumped into the AWI again using the Epic Revolution figures from Warlord Games. I spent an inordinate amount of time pulling out my old papers and research as I purchased and designed the armies I wanted:

a. Army Commanders:

Continental Army Commander based on MG Greene.

British Army Commander based on Lord Cornwallis.

b. Other Commanders:

LTC James Webster.

Colonel late Brigadier General Daniel Morgan.

c. Units:

1st Maryland Continental Line. How can you do the Southern Campaign without the 1st Maryland?

Light Company, 71st (Frasier's Highlanders) Regiment of Foot.

Continental Artillery.

Webster and the 33rd Foot. Webster wears the uniform of a senior officer with the red facings of the 33rd Regiment.

South Carolina troops muster. This unit can represent either SC Continentals, State Troops or Militia. The mounted figure is the Daniel Morgan resin figure from Warlord Games.

Musketeer Regiment von Bose.

The 2nd Spartan Regiment of Militia.

Hessian Jägers.

In addition I have painted a Royal Artillery gun and crew plus a unit of American Rifles. Once I get some pictures, I will post them. Upcoming for the British will be the 71st (Fraser's Highlanders and the 23rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Welsh Fusiliers). Next up for the Americans will be a generic Continental Regiment in brown coats and some American Dragoons and Militia Cavalry.

3. Games. Listen up! Yep; played quite a few games! The next game will be on the Northwest Frontier circa 1898 with the Army of the Raj facing a (ahem) Metallic menace:

"When will they ever learn that they are no match for Doctor Fu Manchu!"

4. Terrain. When I started my AWI project I suddenly realized that I did not have any 15mm terrain. Hmmm . . . I have started some buildings and trees that I will post.

One of the pre-painted MDF buildings from Micro Art Studio and the first batch of trees.

On with the Third Quarter!

Epic Revolution Part 18: A South Carolina Infantry Unit

South Carolina troops muster. This unit can represent either SC Continentals, State Troops or Militia. The mounted figure is the Daniel Morgan resin figure from Warlord Games.

 When I decided to paint a unit that was not uniformed from Warlord Games Epic Revolution, I was a bit apprehensive. I had my technique down for uniformed troops but I was sure the irregular look would take longer. I was wrong! After looking at pictures on the Warlord Games website, plus many Facebook Groups of units of various scales, I decided that really all I needed were various shades of Brown, some blue jackets and maybe the odd green. I did most of the figures with various browns from the Citadel Contrast range of paints, plus Ultramarine Blue (For the Emperor!). Any kind of speed paint should work. I painted a few figures per strip of one color, then moved on to another color. Here is a picture of the process in progress:

I used 5 strips of the less uniformed infantry from the generic Infantry sprue and a command strip from the militia sprue. The flag was an image from the internet, scaled down, and then I painted over it with Vallejo Dark Blue, Vallejo Flat White and Vallejo Flat Black. The flag is a pattern of the first South Carolina State Flag that was used in the Revolution. 

I didn't realize that I needed to touch up many of the black hats until I took the pictures and edited them. My painting room is upstairs in our house and I prime and put a protective coat outside. I usually take pictures before I spray on a protective flat coat.

One of the advantages of this scale is that I paint to "gaming distance and I don't have to add a lot of extra detail. Looking at the figures this closely would not happen during the game.

Epic Revolution Part 15: Okay; The Flag was driving me Nuts!

Sometimes a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. My “attempt” of a new painting style for my flags failed. The first painting of Gostelowe Standard #2 was driving me nuts. Here is the repainted flag and now I can sleep at night:

Here is the original flag. I was trying a new technique using Contrast paints and ink. It did not work and did not add the pizzaz I wanted for the command base.

I went back to my tried and true method of just using enamels. Unfortunately (but who cares?), I did not add all of the stars. Oh well. I think it looks great at gaming distance.

Epic Revolution, Part 13: Continental Army Command Base

 I don't know what I was thinking when I was going to originally mount all of my commanders on the same type base. In games and collections where there is an army commander, 99.9% of the time I make the stands different sizes and different amount of figures for two reasons; too make them easily recognizable on the gaming table and because it looks cool.

The original basing.

The army commander is my interpretation of MG Nathaniel Greene. I've added a rifleman based on a display at the National Museum of the United States Army and a flag bearer based on specifically the reconstituted 2nd Maryland of the Continental Line.

General officers at this time did not have a personal flag; but heck, I needed to add one. The flag is Gostelowe standard #2. The Gostelowe Standard refers to a series of flags created by Major Jonathan Gostelowe for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, specifically a set of thirteen standards that included various designs and symbols representing the colonies. Whether all of the standards were issued the Continental Army is unknown but a fact is that Standard #7 belonged to the 3rd Virginia Regiment which was captured by Tarleton's forces after the Battle of Waxhaw, South Carolina, on May 29, 1780.

I sketched out the flag, scanned it and reduced it using PowerPoint. I had painted it by thinning out acrylic hobby paint to give it a weathered look but you can see that there are some black lines that I may have to repaint. I believe in the 3 foot rule or what does it look like at gaming distance and I do think it looks great at that distance.

I've been painting the commanders while I do the units. For the American War of Independence Division commanders (no such organization yet!) so all of the other commanders will be Brigade commanders.