"Fife & Drum Painted British Grenadiers" Topic

Here are some samples of the first painted British grenadiers fresh off of my painting table:

Wow. Fantstic job.

All looking tops. Well done.

Nice. These figures make me want to derail my 7YW project and jump into AWI…

Hope this isn't a stupid question.. what did you make your corn fields out of?

They look simple but effective.

I'm guessing an old or cheap artificial Xmas tree?

Herb Gundt made the cornfields. He used material purchased from craft stores – they come in 12 inch lengths, usually found in the section with felt, pompons and colored pipe cleaners. I don't' know what they are used for, but they look the business for cornfields.

The figures look great.

Thanks DAF. Sorry to get off track but I think I might make some.

Did they grow corn in Europe in the 18th century? Or is their utility simply for FIW, AWI, W1812, ACW and later ers etc…

I live about as far from Europe as it's possible to be and still share the same planet…. I'm often ignorant about such things…

Well, corn plants were exported to Europe in the 16th century from the New World. So I suppose that you could use them in Europe, or they could stand in for any other tall crop.

Makes sense.

The urge to put together a pair of forces for Sharp Practice from these figures gets harder to resist with every release.

Beautiful figures

Did the Grenadiers wear their bearskins in the field? You opted for campaign dress for center companies, so I'm wondering why not the same for grenadiers?

Beautiful by the way.

There is evidently some documentation to the effect that the Grenadiers wore them at Brandywine. That, and the fact that everyone wants bearskins.

<<Did the Grenadiers wear their bearskins in the field?>>

Dearborn, in his memoirs, refers to the battle of Bunker Hill and confuses the grenadier battalion with the 23rd Foot (Royal Welch Fusiliers), which suggests that the grenadiers wore them at that battle.

A grenadier officer who was wounded in the head at Bunker Hill, later remarks on a private in his company receiving a bullet in his cap in a similar manner during the latter stages of the action at Haarlem Heights.

At Brandywine, Lt Col Meadows (CO of the 1st Grenadier Battalion) orders his men: "Grenadiers, put on your caps – for damned fighting and drinking I'll match you against the world!"

However, there is no mention of the grenadiers wearing caps at Monmouth, a year later, but then the weather was very hot. In 1779, Peebles diary mentions the 42nd putting their grenadier caps into storage, and in 1780, a Royal Artillery officer assigned to the grenadier battalion on Long Island, mentions that he has acquired a white feather similar to that worn by the grenadiers in their hats.