"40mm AWI British Infantry WIP" Topic

As I mentioned in my July painting Desk post on here. A big distraction has landed on my desk. Front Rank 40 mm AWI British Infantry. Yum yum

As part of a Penarth club project I have chosen (Well I begged and grovelled actually) to paint up the Guards batallions.

So whilst prepping and priming them all I have started a test figure.

Here is the first installment the face and flesh. I want to really go to town on these great figures

Loving taking time on these.
Full details of how painted and extra fluff is on my blog here

I will be giving a regular heads up on my Facebook page as well as I go.

Stew
warpaintfigures.com

It will be interesting to watch your progress.

Thanks Doug. Very pumped about these figures. Should have an update tonight or tomorrow

Stew
warpaintfigures.com

They are lovely figures. I have a number of units in my AWI armies.

The Guards did not usually war cocked hats. Just FYI. The figures look great so far.

Well it's been longer than I wanted (For various odd reasons). But here is the next installment. I have completed the tunic in a red I like:

These are small 150*150 but you can find full details of the painting and images you can expand on my blog post here

I even fixed the eyelid:

Stewart
warpaintfigures.com

BTW cocked hats were sometimes reported in the Southern campaign. The problem with the AWI is the conflicting and often poor quality of the evidence from either personal accounts based on recollections or contemporary prints of unproven accuracy.

To be honest it's the feel of the conflict you need to capture. A good example is that the combined Guards battalions had no colours and the officers carried muskets. Some people here I know have done the colours, swords etc. To me that's fine as it still looks great on the table and captures the overall flavour.

Stew

Well after a bit of an elongated break I got back to this one at the weekend. So its Part 3 up and ready.

The full details are on my blog here

Stewart
warpaintfigures.com

Disaster the guards have been hit! God knows how this happened but I have to try and rectify it tonight.

Stew
warpaintfigures.com

Nothing difficult is ever easy.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

Beautiful paint job so far, the face is great.

Re the Guards and headgear, my understanding has been that the companies were ordered to cut their hats 'round' and re lace them, later changed to leaving them unlaced as it was difficult to do this. This order resulted in the small brimmed version, cocked up on the left side possibly using the brass badge? I'll see if I can dig up the reference for this.

Anyway, great figure.

Lee

Excellent work.

Great painting Stew. Will be watching your progress with interest as I'm working on AWI 40mm too – Front Rank for the Brits and Trident Designs for the US and Hessians. New into AWI but loving it!

Here's the link to the Foot Guards article by Linnea Bass and William Burke:-

link

This, we know for sure, is how the Guards looked when they left England and arrived in America for the New York campaign. What we don't know for sure is how long they maintained this "look" in subsequent years and other theatres of operations. They apparently received new uniforms not long before Guilford CH, but we don't know what (if anything) they did to modify them – they may well have looked exactly like your guy (though more likely with overalls rather than breeches and gaiters, but you never know).

Sorry to see you had a little "accident" – only needs a moment's lapse of concentration or a slight slip or twitch of the brush hand. Plus paint does have an annoying habit of going exactly where it isn't wanted – just had something similar happen to a 15mm figure I was painting and ruined the job on a cavalryman AND his blasted horse!

Ooh been a bit since I was on. Caught up with family stuff.

@Blueboy I have seen the Trident stuff and it is gorgeous. Getting it over here is more difficult. Hopefully have someone going to the States soon though.

@Supercillius. Thanks for the link and totally agree with you. I think part of us always likes to see a certain style of figure on the tabletop to please us as well and there is nothing wrong with that. I remember reading a post about colours in the AWI. Of course the combined Guards btn didn't take any but a lot of gamers got them without knowing because they looked the part and then kept them when they found out. 'From my cold dead hands' was the quote I think lol.

The accident wasn't helped by the poor lids on the Foundry black and others I have. They crack horribly. I have transfered it to an old clean GW pot now

Well the rescue has been completed anyway and I'm quite pleased the way it has gone.

From scraping to undercoating to building the paint back up again. Full details are on the blog {url=http://www.warpaintfigures.com/40mm-awi-british-miniature-rescue/]here as usual.

Actually he is being varnished tonight so almost done. I will post in couple of days when dry and get a chance. Just 17 more to go

Stewart
warpaintfigures.com

Hi Stewart … I am wondering what the method was for painting the musket?

If I could paint a 10th as good as you I'd be really happy. Awesome work.