"Who makes "ragged Continentals" in 25/28mm ?" Topic

I already know about Eureka, since in my secret identity as the OFM proposed them for the 100 Club. And they are fine figures.

Dixon has Valley Forge uniformed troops with various heads. These are closer to 25mm.

King's Mountain has Continentals on campaign dress but not exactly ragged.

Anybody else?

You could try Irregular.
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Also what about the Wargames Factory AWI colonial militia and continentals, they are plastic and you could easily combine the 2 to make some really ragged looking continentals.

Fife and Drums (Der Alte Fritz's line) has Americans in hunting shirts as well as militia figures. They're not "ragged" but are definitely not "prim and proper."

fifedrumminis.blogspot.com

They are nicely done figures sculpted by Richard Ansell.

Irregular Miniatures only has FIW and SYW figures.

Jim

consider it a challenge for ypur painting skill and just paint them raggedy!

You can give regular figures a ragged look by the way that you paint them.

For example, use faded colors for the British red coat ( almost pink) and the Continental blue coat.

Paint knee and elbow patched on the figures. I paint a small black rectangle or square on the knees, elbows and seat of the pants and then dab the black with a color such as brown, grey, maroon, green to create the patch. Leave a little bit of the black showing around the edges to provide a little depth of field.

If the figure has a blanket roll or tumpline then use different blanket colors throughout the regiment so that each figure looks different.

If you want to have some ripped knees and elbows, paint the shape of the rip with black and then dab a drop of flesh atop the black part. Now it looks like the pants have ripped and the flesh of the knee or elbow are popping out.

Mix in a variety of hats for your Continentals and mix some brown and blue coats into the same unit. Oftentimes individual companies in the same regiment had different color uniform coats.

Those are just a few ideas.

Winston,

I'm pretty sure you've nailed all of them in your OP.

Away from what your question is asking specifically, for those interested in 15/18mm, the only "ragged" ranges I know of are Lancashire Games and Essex Miniatures (in both cases, their AWI ranges are among their best terms of sculpting and historical accuracy).

Kings Mountain Continentals are indeed campaign types as you can see from the various pictures that I've posted here.

They are not "ragged", just beat up.

Exactly how ragged did you mean?
Dressed all in rags, without footwear?

The Eureka figures can be a bit extreme in raggedness, but not nearly as bad as the plate in the Company of Military Historians book.
The Dixon ones have holes and ragged and torn trousers and coats. Not as extreme.
I can always use more. >hint hint<

If you are looking for suggestions for your excellent line , start a thread. For instance, I just started the Hillbilly Highlanders last night. I filed the pom or tourie off half of the heads but wish it was the flat tam instead of the more military head of the 71st.
I was watching Rob Roy On Demand last night and that gave me the idea.

It's worth bearing in mind the following:-

1) If you read Simcoe and Tarleton, the British/Loyalists were occasionally in a similar state – certainly in the South, not so much in the North.

2) Valley Forge was not as bad as mythology has made out; recent studies indicate that supplies of food and clothing were actually quite plentiful. However, there is no doubt that troops in the Trenton campaign were in a poor state after six months' fighting and retreating from NYC to New Jersey; also, the winter of 1778-79 in Morristown was truly awful and far worse than VF (I think the locality even had a road-sign that said: "Welcome to Morristown: we suffered more").

I've got dozens of Eureka Raggeds and space them out among the rest of the lads. Having an entire 36 man unit of soldiers dressed in rags is a bit much for me.

I wish Nic from Eureka would do more AWI. His Marbleheaders, Raggeds and Mounted Militia are among the best sculpts I own.

I was considering adding some Marbleheader poses to the KMM line, but didn't want to step on Nic's toes. I really like those figures and I consider John Glover to be a major hero of the AWI.