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| British 20th Regiment Fife and Drum Miniatures |
I decided that I would need several British Redcoat regiments wearing cocked hats for my Princeton 1777 game that I am running at Historicon this year. They had to be Fife and Drum Miniatures figures to maintain the consistent look of all of the figures in the game. While we don't officially have British wearing cocked (tricorn hats if you will) it occurred to me that we had something very close in appearance.
And that would be the Fife and Drum Continentals figures, as shown below:
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| British center company infantry from Fife and Drum Miniatures These are actually some of the Continental figures painted in red coats. |
To my eye, the Continentals look very similar to the British 1768 Regulation and so I thought that I would paint a unit of them in red coats and see how they turn out.
I think that they look pretty good as shown below.
I am no expert on the 1768 Regulartions uniforms other than to notice that they wore breeches and hosiery and some half-gaiters at their ankles whereas the early 1776 campaign uniform has them wearing the one-piece "overalls" and the tricorn hat. The Fife and Drum British wear the overalls but sport the round hat, which was more practical to wear in the field as it provided better protection from the sun. I noticed that the Continental uniforms of the 1776-1777 period look very similar to the early British uniform so I think that it is perfectly fine to use them as British soldiers.
Now we do have the British grenadiers that would be correct for 1776-1777. I painted a small unit of 16 figures using the Fife and Drum grenadiers in firing line poses. I don't see many AWI firing line painted regiments on the internet and my own unit of grenadiers are marching, so I decided to use the firing line poses for my winterized Princeton British Grenadiers.
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| British Grenadiers in bearskin hats Fife and Drum Miniatures |
In conclusion, if you are already using Fife and Drum Miniatures in your British armies and you would like to have some of the figures wearing the cocked hat, then consider using the Continental soldier figures in our figure range.
One of these days we will be adding "official" redcoats wearing cocked hats.
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