"Hard plastic Hessians " Topic
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| Tango01 | 07 Feb 2016 9:18 p.m. PST |
They look good!
link link Not the same hat as in the box art…
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 Wolfshanza  | 08 Feb 2016 12:17 a.m. PST |
Think you get both heads in the box ? |
| Cardinal Hawkwood | 08 Feb 2016 4:08 a.m. PST |
I imagine you would get both hats and grenadier caps, even fuslier caps? |
| Winston Smith | 08 Feb 2016 5:46 a.m. PST |
Is that supposed to be Hesse Hanau in the box art?
The grenadiers of Hesse Hanau had yellow cloth rears on their caps? |
| zippyfusenet | 08 Feb 2016 5:54 a.m. PST |
Looks like they're wearing breeches and gaiters, not trousers. Oh well, that makes 'em more useful for Seven Years War. |
| Green Tiger | 08 Feb 2016 5:55 a.m. PST |
Yes, you get all three types of headgear in the box… |
| marco56 | 09 Feb 2016 6:39 p.m. PST |
I believe these are the one WGF never released.
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| Clays Russians | 10 Feb 2016 9:30 a.m. PST |
You only get 14 fusilier helmets per box, so you need two box to bo regiment of fusiliers, no big deal really, I haven't numbered the grenadier miters? But there's German musketeer hats a plenty. It's a neat of box, these Hessians, and I like the fire line foe a change of pace |
| Clays Russians | 10 Feb 2016 10:49 a.m. PST |
I pulled the hessian regt out of the Liberty to death box, here's the hat spread fusilier 14 heads, grenadier heads 19, musketeer HATS-to put on flat heads 24, offizier HATS-to put on flat heads 5, If anyone was courious. For some reason you get 2 drummers ? |
| Bill N | 10 Feb 2016 12:14 p.m. PST |
Thank you for the breakdown CR. |
| dave001776 | 11 Feb 2016 10:23 a.m. PST |
Still sporting 'those' shoulders I see ! |
| Supercilius Maximus | 11 Feb 2016 4:44 p.m. PST |
Is that supposed to be Hesse Hanau in the box art? Most likely it is – the uniform is correct, including the lace scallops on the cuffs and lapels; the flag is also correct – and as the grenadier company remained with the rest of the battalion the presence of a colour behind them is also valid (I believe that the lion on the flag is also facing the correct way for HH – ie the opposite way to the HC lion). Looks like they're wearing breeches and gaiters, not trousers. Actually, Hesse Cassel troops (and I think Anspach-Bayreuth troops as well) wore these right up to the end of the AWI – including one of the two regiments at Yorktown; the only exceptions were some of the jaeger – who got stripey overalls, courtesy of Cornwallis, after the capture of Charleston, SC – and possibly also the von Bose Regt (the other Yorktown regiment) in the South. Riedesel re-clothed the Brunswick contingent in British-style overalls using sailcloth donated by the Royal Navy, during the winter of 1776-1777. It's not clear if he did the same to the Hesse Hanau contingent as well. |
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