1/72 American Regiment (Dark Blue faced White) Airfix

After buying and old box of Airfix “Washington Army “,

 and making a small unit of German Jagers with some of them …

https://modellingawi.blogspot.com/2020/03/172-german-jagers.html

…I though; what to do with the rest of figures? I thought I have betrayed the Continental figures with a German units, so…I will do a real American unit.

So I began to do it. As I said, this Airfix figures are a little small, -because their legs are disproportionately small, the upper side of the figures are very correct and expressive. Although is a very drastic measure, I decided to cut their legs and replace them with Accurate(Revell-Imex) figures. With this new legs they result even high, because their body and head are in the big side of the 1/72 scale.

I painted them in blue coat with white facing, trouser and shirt in white too, so a lot of white, I could have used more variety for these clothes…

Trying, as I did in the Jagger unit, to add some variety in the unit and in the bases, I tried to do a little composition, with lower in both sides (with the prone and sitting positions, and higher to the center (with the standing and the officer on the horse), accentuated with a small elevation on the terrain.

The central base only contain three figures, I have tried to do and epic composition with the mounted official in an elevated position framed by the American flag, and the drummer advancing…

 The group of two men evacuating a casualty is my preferred; but I have set it looking backwards, logically, but this force them out of the spotlight…I thinking about turning them¡

Thank you very much for watching¡

I have still some more figures…I´m finishing other base with…? What do you think¡?

Antonio.