Washington, Greene and Rall Personality Figures

 

His Excellency General George Washington from Fife and Drum Miniatures.

Here are several pictures of some of the Fife and Drum Miniatures personality figures for the American War of Independence. We have specific personality figures for Washington, Greene and Francis Marion for the American side and Howe, Cornwallis and Tarleton for the British team. The command stand vignettes shown in these pictures center around the personality figure, which I have augmented with various mounted and foot figures from the Minden and Fife and Drum figure ranges to help tell the story. The headquarters flag is from GMB Designs in the UK.

George Washington command stand

I start with, naturally, the Washington figure and add a mounted horseman that carries Washington's headquarters flag. The latter is the mounted standard bearer from the AWI 1st Light Dragoons. The dismounted officer in the hunting shirt is shielding his eyes as he looks off into the distance and seems to be a natural to use in a variety of vignettes. He comes from the Continental Infantry in Hunting Shirts Command pack set. Since everyone is looking in the same direction I also added a Hessian lager office holding a telescope and painted him in a Continental uniform.

Major General Nathaniel Greene command stand.

Major General Nathaniel Greene
Fife and Drum Miniatures

Once again I used the Hessian lager officer with the telescope and the Continental dragoon standard bearer to set the scene. The standard bearer is carrying a "grand division" flag which indicates that the command stand is for a Continental division in my game rules. Division commanders have a flag bearer whereas brigade commanders only have the mounted officer figure. The grand division flag is from GMB Designs.

Hessian Colonel Johann Rall command stand

For the Colonel Rall (he wasn't a "von") figure I used the Prussian general Prinz Moritz personality figure from the Minden Miniatures figure range. The foot officer shielding his eyes is from the Hessian Standing Firing command pack from the Fife and Drum figure range. Rall would not have worn the orange sash of the Prussian military order, but he looked the part and so I drafted him into the Hessian army.

Colonel Johann Rall, commander of the Hessian garrison at Trenton.
Minden Miniatures "Prinz Moritz" personality figure.

Washington Crossing the Deleware vignette

Washington Crossing the Delaware River vignette.
Various Minden and Fife and Drum Miniatures figures.

I found a printing file for the Durham boat on line and available for free download. See my previous post about Durham boats for the direct link to the web site. After a little bit of experimenting I decided that twelve figures were enough for the boat crew. 

The seated Minden wagon team driver figures seemed like a natural to be holding the oars of the boat, however, I found it difficult to maneuver the arms so that they could hold an oar so I gave up on that idea. I used some of the Minden Pioneers figure to hold oars or poles: the figure at the front holding a pole, the standing figure in the middle of the boat holding an oar, and the figure at the rear holding an oar is from one of the Minden Agricultural Workers vignette pack. The oars are made by both Brigade Games and Old Glory.

I ended up using four of the Minden wagon drivers as simply seated passengers on the boat. You can see General Washington standing near the front  and he comes from the Minden personality pack PER-001 "Duke of Brunswick and staff, dismounted". The flag bearer is a Fife and Drum hunting shirt command figure as is the chap standing to the left of Washington (the hunting shirt figure with one hand shielding his eyes). I added a couple of AWI rank and file figures to fill out the crew.

American Artillery Battery

I am also showing two of the Continental Army artillery sets from the Fife and Drum Miniatures figure range. They are made in both the firing and loading poses.

Continental artillery battery with Swedish 4-pound cannon.

American crew loading a Swedish 4-pound cannon

American artillery firing a Swedish 4-pound cannon.
Note the crew figure covering his ears.

You can see all of these figures and more at the five games that I am hosting at this year's Historicon convention in July 2026 at Lancaster, Pennsylvania.