American side is growing¡
This time I have build and American unit wearing
a dark blue uniform coat with buff as facing color. Apart from some militia
units and According to the new regulations of 1979, this facing colour was
established for units of the states of New York and New Jersey. I have added
some men wearing some civilian clothes, something that seems usual in the
scenes of the American units. I have used generics flag valid for non specific
units.
I have used a heterogeneous variety of
poses, trying to give dynamism to the scene.
In the pictures while the soldiers try to
fight with ferocity, one of the fellows looks at the camera blatantly¡
I hope you like them¡
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Making a Continental Army¡
As I commented in the entry; https://modellingawi.blogspot.com/2019/04/making-regiment.html,
The uniform of English Regiments,
broadly speaking, is not very difficult to understand; with its red coats,
regimental colour and white for the rest of the clothes.
Uniforms;
But…what about the American Uniforms? In
the reference books and in internet we can see a big variety of uniforms; these
can be copied easily, and will add a very good variety of colours to our
American Army, but; if we use very specific uniforms, we could use them only in the specific battles that these
recognizable units fought. Is it possible to create a core of units with more
general uniforms usable for more o less every battle?
Apart from the some militia units dressed
practically in civilian clothes, that I will see in other entry, from the two
main book that I´m using, we can extract some ideas;
For the Period 1977-79;
·
In the Lorenz book I can read
about the Continental infantry; “When dealing with the Continental infantry
regiments and the uniforms, it should be noted that the most common uniform
worn before the uniforms regulations of 1779 were issued was either dark blue
coats faced red or brown coats faced red. Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New
York and South Carolina were states that furnished their troops with uniforms
of these basic colors”
For the Period 1979-81;
·
In the “Rebellions supplement”
we can read “ In 1779-80 it was the hope of Congress And Washington that more standardization could be brought to the appearance
of the Continental army. The infantry were to wear a dark blue uniform coat
with facing colours dependent on the
colony; White for New England; buff for New York and New Jersey; red or
scarlet for the middle colonies, including Virginia; blue in the Carolinas and
Georgia.
So, Regiments painted in dark blue
uniform coat with a variety of facing colours (being the red the more used),
plus brown coats faced red can constitute the core of our Continental Army.
Figures;
As I said with the Accurate Set 7200
British Infantry (we can find them as Revell Set 02560 or as IMEX Set 512
British redcoats)is the core for building the standard units of regular army of
both, -English and American – sides. The other main reference is Accurate Set
7201 American Militia (we can find them too as Revell Set 02561American Militia
or as IMEX Set 511George Washington’s Army), some of their poses wear standard
regulars uniforms, other ones are made for the militia units, but we can add
some variety in the American Regular Regiments adding them same militia poses
in more o less quantity (as we can see in many illustrations).
About the figures you can read this
entry;
https://modellingawi.blogspot.com/2019/04/making-regiment.HTML
American regiment had more variety in
their hats, rounded, those similar to light infantry caps…but they are very
difficult to obtain in this scale. we can ad blankets rolls too…I will see what
can we do…¡
So I have begun with one unit wearing dark
blue coats faced red. Used in the period 1775-79 and being the official color for
the middle colonies in the Period 1979-81.
As you can see above, the poses in this units are inspired
other similar unit I made for the English Army;
Thank you for watching¡
