"Perry AWI Plastic Questions" Topic
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DukeWacoan   | 12 Nov 2014 12:30 p.m. PST |
Can the Perry plastics be used for the 23rd and 33rd Foot at Guildford CH? I don't really know what the box allows to be built. I'm guessing the Grenadiers and Guards are not something that the box allows. Also can the Perry American box be used for Continental light companies for the 1781 time period? Thanks |
| 95thRegt | 13 Nov 2014 6:46 a.m. PST |
Absolutely the Perry plastic Brits can be used for the 23rd. Just use the floppy hats. Grenadiers in the South more than likely did NOT wear the bearskin caps. Guards wore cut down caps as well. Bob |
 Der Alte Fritz  | 13 Nov 2014 8:46 a.m. PST |
Pretty much everyone is wearing cut down coats, overalls and floppy hats so the Perry plastics should work for the 23rd, 33rd and Guards at Guilford CH. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 13 Nov 2014 3:49 p.m. PST |
Be careful with some of the assumptions here. Although they are not out of the question, pretty much everyone in Cornwallis's army got new uniforms just before the battle, IIRC. On that basis, there's no reason you couldn't use fully cocked hats as an alternative to the "slouch" (cocked on the left side only) option eg to distinguish the Guards' centre companies (however, their flank companies both wore a peaked hat-cap – see the extra heads supplied with the last boxes of metal light infantry that Alan did, or the Guards flank company figures in the Fife & Drum range). That said, I suspect that the hats at least might have been modified to cocked on the left only, even if there wasn't the time to do the coats as well. |
| Gnu2000 | 14 Nov 2014 12:24 p.m. PST |
The guards didn't wear lace, but that's an easy fix. |
| dantheman | 14 Nov 2014 8:47 p.m. PST |
When cut down coats and caps were adopted, how did you know who are Grenadiers, other than a sword, did they have something like red plumes? |
| Supercilius Maximus | 15 Nov 2014 5:47 p.m. PST |
Do you mean the Guards flank companies? The grenadiers had a brass match case (a small tube with holes in it) high on the belt of the cartridge box – these were abolished after the AWI as they had rarely been worn on campaign. I don't know for sure if they kept the short sword (another grenadier distinction), but almost certainly they had plainer, unlaced versions of the traditional "wings" on the coat shoulders. The main distinction between the grenadier and light companies appears to have been the grenade badge and the large letter "L" on the front of the peaked hat-cap. A suggestion as to what these caps looked like can be seen here in this article:- link |
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