Fife & Drum Continental Regt - Hunting Shirts

New Fife & Drum Continentals in Hunting Shirts with GMB Designs Flag. (click pix to enlarge)

I put the finishing touches on my first unit of Fife & Drum Continentals, in firing line poses, this evening and quickly applied the basing material and fine grit so that I could shoot some pictures and get them ready for the final basing step tomorrow (inking the bases, applying static grass). A GMB Designs flag (Grand Division Flag - Red) was added to spiff it up a little bit.

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Best Historical Figure Range Update

The final round of the voting for Best Historical Figure Range of 2011 is on-going through January 10, 2013. If you have not voted yet, you only have a few more days. Click on the link below to go to the poll page so that you can cast your vote. Hopefully, you will vote for Fife & Drum Miniatures.

TMP Poll - Best Historical Range of 2011

So far Fife & Drum is in first place, but there is a lot of good competition and I expect the voting margin to narrow. We are at 49 votes so far, compared to a total of 97 votes in the preliminary round.

Close-up view of the three of the stands in the regiment.

I had to paint at least one stand in purple hunting shirts; afterall, where else are you ever going to have the opportunity to use the color purple in a horse and musket era regiment?

4th Pennsylvania Regiment with mounted officer.

Royal Artillery Amusette and Crew

What's Next On Fritz's Painting Table?

I have a regiment of Fife & Drum Continentals in hunting shirts, marching pose. I plan to mix in a few men in uniform coats so as to mix things up a bit. I'm looking forward to working on another unit of these figures.

After that, it will be back to the SYW as we have a game scheduled for early February in Brown Deer, using our various 1:20 ratio 28mm armies. This battle will see my collection of Minden figures taking to  the field for the very first time. I have to paint a few more Austrian cuirassiers to even the forces out a bit.