British Legion Cavalry

Just a reminder that Fife & Drum Miniatures added Tarleton's British Legion figures to the range in 2014. You have a choice of seven different poses plus Bloody Ban himself, all guaranteed to make any Continenal feel a little bit uncomfortable.

BC-003 Banastre Tarleton 

BC-025 British Legion Officer

BC-026 British Legion Trumpeter 

BC-027 British Legion Trooper Hacking

BC-028 British Legion Trooper Charging #1

BC-029 British Legion Trooper Charging #2

BC-030 British Legion Trooper Shouldered Sword

BC-031 British Legion Trooper Firing Pistol

The figures are sold individually and include the horse and are $6.00 per figure. 

To order, send me an email at: altefritz1740@yahoo.com. PayPal accepted.

I will be moving a few of these guys onto the painting table soon as I get to work on my Cowpens Project. I want to get my forces painted and ready to go in time to game the battle on its anniversary on January 17 (1781) 2015.

Painted Pix: Tarleton's Legion & 17th Light Dragoons

British Legion (7 poses) from Fife & Drum Miniatures. (Click to enlarge)

Well, here they are. I have finished painting "onesies" of each of the new British Legion cavalry (7 different poses) and the British 17th Light Dragoons (4 different poses). I also have four new 3rd Continental Dragoons that I have yet to paint, but I hope to get them done and posted this week.

I have started mailing out all of the Kickstarter orders to backers. I have to take the packages to the post office in small batches of up to 6 boxes, because Mrs. Fritz broke her left wing and can't carry anything of substantial weight (and she was my mid-week courier). So most of the orders will be mailed on Saturdays, but I should have most of them in the mail by the end of June.

British Legion Command

British Legion charging with swords drawn.

Two charging poses and one hacking.

Shouldered sword and firing pistol.

And here are the British 17th Light Dragoons. They spent the latter part of the war fighting in the Carolinas, attached to Tarleton's British Legion. The men of the 17th refused to don the green coats, but instead, kept their red regimentals (and/or wore smocks in the summer months).

British 17th Light Dragoons - all four poses.

Reverse side of the previous picture.

Tarleton's Legion Has Arrived!

Tarleton's British Legion at the charge, showing all 7 of the new figures (click to enlarge).

I just received two large boxes full of castings from Griffin Moulds today, and the shipment included the new Fife & Drum AWI Dragoons: British Legion Cavalry (7 poses), the British 17th Light Dragoons (4 charging poses) and the 3rd Continental Dragoons (4 charging poses). I only had time to glue, blackwash and photograph the British Legion figures this evening, so I will do the rest of the figures in a day or two and post the pictures here.

Let's let the pictures tell the story:

Command figures: officer (left) and trumpeter (right)

Two charging variants on two different charging horses.

Shouldered sword trooper on walking horse.

Firing pistol and hacking downward.

I will be sending figures out to the Kickstarter backers first, starting next week, but after that the figures are available to everyone. If you did not participate in the Kickstarter campaign you are probably kicking yourself wondering why you did not back the campaign. Not to worry, feel free to pre-order any of our Continental or British AWI dragoons and I can start shipping in two weeks. There is no payment necessary until I am ready to ship you your figures, but the pre-order ensures that I am able to set aside the figures that you want.

For the time being, we are selling the cavalry as single figures, but eventually the plan is to package them in packs of two or three figures.

British Legion Product Codes ($6.00 each including horse)

BC-003   Banastre Tarleton Personality Figure

BC-025   British Legion Officer, Charging

BC-026   British Legion Trumpeter, Charging

BC-027   British Legion Trooper, Hacking Downwards

BC-028   British Legion Trooper, Charging Variant #1

BC-029   British Legion Trooper, Charging Variant #2

BC-030   British Legion Trooper, Shouldered Sword

BC-031   British Legion Trooper, Firing Pistol

British 16th Light Dragoons ($6.00 each including horse)

BC-010   16th Light Dragoons Officer, Pointing

BC-011   16th Light Dragoons Trumpeter

BC-012   16th Light Dragoons Trooper, Shouldered Sword, Uniform Coat

BC-013   16th Light Dragoons Trooper, Shouldered Sword, Hunting Shirt

BC-014   16th Light Dragoons Trooper, Rested Carbine on Right Thigh

BC-015   16th Light Dragoons Trooper, Firing Pistol

BC-016   16th Light Dragoons Trooper, Firing Carbine

BC-017   16th Light Dragoons Trooper, Loading Carbine

British 17th Light Dragoons($6.00 each including horse)

BC-018   17th Light Dragoons Officer, Charging

BC-019   17th Light Dragoons Trumpeter, Charging

BC-020   17th Light Dragoons Trooper, Charging Variant #1

BC-021   17th Light Dragoons Trooper, Charging Variant #2

British Legion Greens Have Arrived!

British Legion Trooper Charging.

(Click All Pictures to Enlarge)

 The other day I received a file full of pictures of the latest AWI dragoons that Richard Ansell recently completed. These include the 3rd Continental Dragoons (5 poses), the 17th Light Dragoons (4 poses) and Tarleton's British Legion cavalry (7 poses). All three sets are in energetic charging poses in contrast with the earlier 1st Continental Dragoons and 16th Light Dragoons which were done in skirmishing and shouldered sword poses.

So if you want a traditional "marching with shouldered sword" or "skirmishing" poses, you would select the 1st Continental and the 16th Light Dragoons. However, if you prefer the more energetic "charging" poses, then the 3rd Continental, 17th Light Dragoons and the British Legion are would you will be looking for.

The greens have been sent on to Griffin Moulds to have the master and production moulds made, and then to cast the finished pieces. So allowing for some extra lead time, I would estimate that all of the new figures will be produced and in stock sometime in May 2014.

I will post pictures of the British 17th Light Dragoons and the 3rd Continental Dragoons later next week, so as to spread things out a little bit.

British Legion Trooper, Hacking

The British Legion trooper hacking downward with his sword (see above photo) is one of my favorite poses. You can really get a lot of variety in your regiment using the five charging poses shown on these pages.

British Legion Officer, Charging

British Legion Trooper Charging & Firing Pistol

British Legion Trumpeter, Charging

British Legion Trooper, with Shouldered Sword

British Legion Trooper Firing Carbine