"Perry Miniatures- The British at AWI." Topic

Now the Red Coats.
So good as the American troops.

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Hope you enjoy!.

Amicalement
Armand

I'm really looking forward to getting a few boxes of these chaps.
Cheers

Deja vu?

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You are the first to bring these new figures to my attention. You have done well.

Thank you.

Deja vu?

Yes. Good old Armand needs to remember what he's posted before. ANd only 10 days ago at that!

Come on, man.

Different pictures….why all the bad feelings? I for one enjoyed them. Thank you Armamd.
Dennis

Glad you had enjoy them my friend Dennis!.

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Armand

I love these pictures! Thank you Armand!

is there a special search engine where some members of TMP go just to look for possible duplication of posts?

is there a special search engine where some members of TMP go just to look for possible duplication of posts?

No, it's just called a reasonably good memory.

Glad you had enjoy it my friend Redcoat 55.
Marc, thanks for your support.
To be in touch with old friends are really good here.

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Armand

Not to be critical (aw, what the heck), but what on earth is that drummer doing with his left hand? Certainly not playing that drum. Also, why do sculptors insist on putting advancing men in the old minifigs, two hands on the musket, slightly elevated, instead of a historically correct position? They should be at order (musket up), trail, or front rank charge (waist high), second rank at order.

I stand corrected, they do have some at trail, and some at waist high charge. They do have the two hands holding musket elevated though. I have heard of references of a port arms like position, but not the elevated charge type position. Still, nice stuff. :-)

One thing the Perrys have always done with H&M era charging figures is to depict both front and rear rank poses. To be honest, I think the old "advancing" Minifigs pose is just included to give a bit of pose variation and/or to allow a figure to be used as a front or rear ranker.

The rear ranker should have their musket with fixed bayonet elevated at order, not charging, nor over the shoulder of the man in front of them. The second rank did not drop their musket unless the man in front of them went down and then they stepped up to fill the front rank position. Or so I am led to believe. :-)

You may be right as to why they cast it this way though.

During a charge the 2nd rank men would be at recover in an open field

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but to be fair if you were charging where tree branches could get in the way, moving at the trail would seem to be an option, as your musket would constantly be banging into tree branches at the recover. Moving at the advance would also be an option, but I have found that if there are enough low branches, even carrying your musket at the advance does not work, and at the trail almost always works with low branches.

Ugh,I can't believe I said "Order." I was thinking "Open Order." Yes, you are right. "Recover." Let's hope I don't say that at the next formation. :-(

The "Recover" position is well documented in period paintings of the men marching on a battlefield or mock battlefield.

Does this mean they're getting a wee bit closer to being put into production? It's been quite a while since the first picture appeared on the Plastics Workbench.
Thanks Armand for catching this!

A votre service mon ami Carl!

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Armand