| Winston Smith | 07 Aug 2014 2:16 a.m. PST |
There are a few plates showing early AWI American troops wearing cloth grenadier mitre caps.
It would be fun to have a few scattered stands showing these odd troops. It seems that Continental plastics or headless King's Mountain 28mm troops would be a good starting point. Does anyone make suitable DYE British grenadier heads? |
| Supercilius Maximus | 07 Aug 2014 4:09 a.m. PST |
I honestly cannot think of anyone off-hand; HaT are the only plastics in 28mm, but are not a match for metal 28mm. An obvious answer would be head-swaps with SYW/FIW figures, but then you'd be left with "dead" figures that you didn't want. You could ask someone like Redoubt or Conquest if they'd make some head moulds from their FIW grenadiers. Alternatively, you could conceivably use Hessian grenadiers if you shave off the moustache and pigtail. The one bugbear kit-wise is the tournister, but early Continental regiments did use a mish-mash of kit, so if you filed off the hair and painted them red oxide or some other "waterproof" colour, you could get away with them. From memory, I think it was only a few companies of the 26th Continental Regiment that had them for any length of time once the war started – there's a plate in the first volume of the newer "Washington's Army" Osprey. |
| Winston Smith | 07 Aug 2014 4:47 a.m. PST |
This is one if those things not high on my list. 
When and if anyone does make the right heads….. |
| SJDonovan | 07 Aug 2014 5:22 a.m. PST |
It seems we don't yet live in a golden age . . . |
Doug MSC  | 07 Aug 2014 5:46 a.m. PST |
We make them for our 40mm AWI range. :) |
| adster | 07 Aug 2014 6:04 a.m. PST |
Does the Wargames Factory War of Spanish Succession sprue have a suitable head (or one that could be easily modified?) |
 Dye4minis | 07 Aug 2014 9:53 a.m. PST |
Seconded the Wargames Factory. "Cheap as Chips" I think the word is, to trade from a fellow gamer….Just leave MY head alone!!!!!!! DYE (insert smiley face here….) |
| John the OFM | 07 Aug 2014 11:07 a.m. PST |
Ah!
Anyone have any heads they don't need? |
| nevinsrip | 07 Aug 2014 1:53 p.m. PST |
Anyone have any heads they don't need. Me. About 5000 of them LOL |
| Winston Smith | 07 Aug 2014 2:25 p.m. PST |
Are any of them SYW British grenadier miter caps? |
| French Wargame Holidays | 07 Aug 2014 3:40 p.m. PST |
Not that I am aware of, the only way would be to buy some suitable 7yw figs and do a head swap, or have a go at sculpting your own |
paints brigs for the British fleet.
