3D Printing.... resumes?

Well, I have heard from Phrozen's customer support. The LCD on my Sonic Mini 4k is dead. The Sonic Mini 4k is also discontinued with no more parts available. So I have a paperweight. While this is bad news, I had a friend who has the same printer. He was looking to upgrade to a much larger printer. So he sold me his and all of his accessories. I now have a replacement. The hope is I can get it home and try it out this week. With the printer, he has included all of his accessories for the printer. Among them.... a replacement LCD! I am really looking forward to getting this up and running.

I am trying to focus on a single project for the moment. I think this will likely be things related to my British Legion AWI project. Once I get my current minis painted up for the British Legion, I will be looking into Henry Turner's miniatures to supplement out anything I am still lacking. What he does not currently offer are British Highlanders in trousers. That may be possible with the blender files he has but I lack the software to use them. What I was excited to see was his militia cavalry. I may get these sooner rather than later. The woodland Indian command is also interesting. I think it would be interesting to have some leaders to representy the Catawba (Rebel Allies) and use my existing ones to represent the Creek and Cherokee (British Allies). But first we need to see how they match up with my existing miniatures.

I am trying to work my way through Tarleton's account of the months leading up to the fall of Charleston in May of 1780. The scanned copy is not easy to read and he seems to brush over some details of actions the legion was part of but he was not directly involved in. Likely, I will need to rely on other sources for that. Most of the books I have cover the period after the fall of Charleston. I am keen to look at what the Legion was doing before.

Early Timeline

What I have seen is that the British Legion didn't fare well in the transfer from the Northern Theater to the Southern. A gale had sunk their horse transports. The British had sent 90 transports from New York to Savannah to mount operations against Charleston. Due to severe weather, the fleet was scattered. One ship transporting Hessians ended up dismasted and made landfall in England! Several ships were lost, including a vessel carrying the heavy siege artillery, Russian Merchant. Encyclopedia.com's entry for this vessel lists it at a 243 ton merchant vessel. Not only were there seige artillery, but some 4,000 muskets for arming Georgia Loyalists. This limited effective operations against fortified outposts occupied by the rebels.

On January 24th, 1780, some transports were captured by the Rebels. Aboard the transports were forty light Dragoons of the British Legion and and Bucks County Light Dragoons as well as seven or eight officers (O'Kelly, Vol 2, pg 23). There was the tack for forty horses. Aboard were also two horses. Given the lack of horses that the British Legion had, the loss of the two horses were probably felt more than the tack that was thrown overboard.

It seems that the Legion cavalry, as it was, landed near Beaufort, SC. While the Infantry had reached Savannah, GA. The two would reunite by Mid March.

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O'Kelley, Patrick. 2004. Nothing But Blood and Slaughter: The revolutionary War in the Carolinas. Volume 2. Blue House Tavern Press.