British Legion Casualties

I have put the prints of the casualties that I made into the curing station last night. Even though I left them wet on the build plate for days, they came out pretty good. These are Henry Turner's models from his AWI range. I am quite pleased with these so far and am looking forward to priming and painting them.

I like the dead horse poses. They seem more dynamic than the lead scupts that I have in my collection. There are three different dragoon dead and one wounded. The casualty range has multiple dead poses for most of the troop types that he has. They come with the base as seen but it shouldn't be too hard to remove the base from them.

I still have a bunch to paint. Here are the items that are in the painting queue. Mostly cavalry and the last two groups of infantry.

I also took a picture of the two complete groups (minus basing).

Trying to keep my focus on these to have them in a game this year.

British Legion Project Update

Less on the British Legion but more on rebasing in general. I have managed to get some more militia bases and trays printed. Not from my printer but on a friends filament printer. He was able to print 10 trays and some 80 bases. This should be more than enough to finish rebasing my existing militia troops. They are printed in white but that is not a problem. I plan on priming them before using them.

I will be printing some British Legion casualties tonight. I also thought about printing some tricorn hats that came with the Henry Turner casualty pack. These would be great for markers on the field. He also has some weapons as well. We will see. The prints came out well. I am wondering if I lost some detail since there was a span of a few days between the print and cleaning the miniatures. I am waiting for them to dry before throwing them in the curing station.

I have the remainder of my British Legion already on painting sticks. I have to prime some of them still. If possible, I will try to take care of that tonight as well.

The scenarios that I am working on for this project are coming along. I am enjoying the book, A Gallant Defense by Carl Borick. It basically walks the reader through the build up of troops by the British through the siege of Charleston and ends after the battle of Waxhaws. Which is what I am looking to track as This Land Divided picks up after the battle of Waxhaws. The aim is to cover the actions of just the British Legion from Cecember 1779 to June 1780.

Basing for Sharp Practice

I took the new printer for a spin. I am printing some additional Militia bases for the AWI. The first attempt didn't go well. The figure bases came out OK but the movement trays were lost. One completely came off the supports and stuck to the bed. The other came out bent. I have set it up again but without supports this time.

In order to maximize my success, I put a space heater next to the printer to warm the resin. As you can see, it may not have helped. But we will see.

The next attempt was a succeful miniature print. A creator sent me a sample miniature so I could try to print it in 1/100th scale. He sent me a presupported and an unsupported model. The presupported printed beautifully. The unsupported did OK, except for losing a foot.

The third print was more bases and trays. This time I printed them flat. However, It looks like a few layers into the print, the prints shifted a couple of milimeters. While technically, I have two more trays, they are not what I was looking for.

Cold War Ideas...

I was looking around at the available STL files for some figures to use as Sandinistas. I found some on Wargaming3d. There is a maker named Miska Miniatures that does some Cuban figures in caps. These are ideal. They have a pack that has a squad in it. Included is a squad leader, an RPG gunner, a PKM gunner, a RPK gunner and four riflemen. For variants there is another pack with three riflemen. He has a 3rd pack that has some helmeted figures. It is another squad but the squad has helmets except for one figure. This looks less useful. I probably would not pick those up. I would like an officer figure but I may have to use some figures from Peter Pig to supplement. I suspect the the figures would be set up for 28mm and would need to be shrunk. I suspect that it could cause some issues with the weapons.

I just took another look. They do have a command element with an officer, an RTO, and an additional rifleman. They also have a guy with a scoped rifle and a beret. Not sure why it has a beret. But he looks cool in sunglasses and a cigar. There are also some support weapons. The gun grew with the AGS-17 look good as does the DSHK team. I would need to add some riflemen to complete out the crew. They also have an ATGM team with a mix off caps and helmets.

If I can get these to shrink down to 1/100th scale, this may be the way to go. I think I would get the three rifleman pack to do test prints with before going full in with this.

British Legion Infantry - Second Group

I was able to get some painting time in over the weekend. Not much, but enough to finish off the second group of British Legion Infantry. They still need to be based, but I have them painted and added some Army Painter Quick shade to them. I am happy with them. I have one more group to go, plus another group of dismounted cavalry to do. The dismounted cavalry could serve as a skirmish group as well.

I also toyed with my new bases. I rebased a group of Militia using the v3 of the militia bases. These came out well. I think this will be the look that I want. The group will be somewhat looser than the Provincials and Regulars. I will just need a bunch more of these.

Lastly, I started to place my Georgia Continental Line on painting sticks. I have two groups and some command elements. I also found some unpainted civilians that ended up on painting sticks. These will fall lower on the priority but the miniatures just looked like they would be fun to do.

So things are actually moving on this project. I am looking forward to getting to the cavalry. In the British Legion picture, you can see the Bugler's horse started to get attention. The problem was, I started with the wrong paint on its front leg. It will take some work to get this to look right.