Saturday 20 February 2016

American Militia in Winter Dress 1812


American Militia in Winter Dress 1812..that´s what it says on the box and that´s basically what´s in the box but I wanted them for use as Bodstonian Miltia..so they got few head and hat swops.(from the Zvezda Russian Artillery of Peter the Great set)
The range of weapons is interesting, as mentioned on the PSR site (here) mainly muskets but the chaps at PSR missed one..a double barrelled weapon, a shotgun?

Hopefully Strelets will bring out a set of American Militia in summer Dress 1812

 
 
Hardly any of them carry a powder horn or a secondary weapon like a knife or a hatchet but 4 of them have rucksacks etc
The one in the middle Looks like he could Feature in a western cowboy type Setting
The two on the left could be used as highwaymen. The "Cowboy" again from behind. It´s not 100 obvious from the pic but the weapon he´s Holding definately has two Barrels and a lock on the left and right. While there were such things as double barrelled flintlock muskets, they were expensive and prone to misfiring/exploding, so seeing as he´s a militiaman,  it´s more likely it´s a  double barrelled shotgun, not a musket.
Head or hat swops
As usual, one sprue is put into storage for any future conversion use, the other two are added to the  Bods for sale/swop list

12 comments:

  1. I have some sprues of these set to and I must say it's a lovely set. Only problem I had was that some guns are broken and I can't fix them.
    You painted and converted these figures excellent Paul!

    Greetings
    Peter

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    1. I had one or two Broken rifles as well but Pattex super gel fixed them. The one leaning and firing plus the ramrod broke off...can you spot the join? ;-)

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  2. Lovely work on the Bodstonians, may they be eagle eyed killers!

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  3. awesome stuff Paul. It'll great fun to see these guys in action defending Bodstonia or perhaps getting up to no good. It would also be great if they did some in summer dress as basically that's all I could use or Oronegro. But I did convert some Alamo defenders from IMEX and they did the trick. Even using the more uniformed ones for troops.

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  4. A big Thumbs up from me Paul,for the hat swops!
    They all look good to my eyes.BB

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  5. Great work Paul.....and there was me thinking you had started a new period!!

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  6. These would be terrific for Montgomery's campaign in Quebec in 1775.

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