| nevinsrip | 07 Jul 2016 7:41 p.m. PST |
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| Winston Smith | 07 Jul 2016 10:56 p.m. PST |
One of the Philadelphia Associator battalions.
Because they were a first rate militia unit that did well. |
| SJDonovan | 07 Jul 2016 11:44 p.m. PST |
My favourite is the one I have just finished painting. They have to be my favourite because they are the first and only AWI unit I have completed. But who they are meant to be I don't really know. The 1st Continental Generic Militia? |
| Pan Marek | 08 Jul 2016 6:41 a.m. PST |
Weren't the Generics crucial in the battle of Storebrand? |
Red Jacket  | 08 Jul 2016 8:51 a.m. PST |
I thought it was the Battle of the Big Box? |
| PVT641 | 08 Jul 2016 9:22 a.m. PST |
Glovers Marbleheaders. Historically a very significant Regt. |
| Bill N | 08 Jul 2016 9:26 a.m. PST |
Well they were cheaper than the name brand. I don't have a favorite. I do have some brown faced red continentals because supposedly it was the uniform issued to Virginia continentals in 1778, and because it was the uniform of the 2nd Maryland at Guilford CH. There is also a possibility the uniform might have been worn by Delaware Continentals between 1778 and 1780. I am not a fan though, and would probably use another facing color if I could justify it. |
| historygamer | 08 Jul 2016 10:38 a.m. PST |
I have a mix (blue and brown coats) since those were the two colors of the lottery coats handed at during different years. |
| SJDonovan | 08 Jul 2016 1:31 p.m. PST |
I'm with Bill N on this one. I chose to do brown with red facings for my first unit because it looked good on an officer of an unidentified regiment in Mollo and McGregor's book but when transferred to a 15mm figure by someone with limited painting skills it all comes out looking a bit blurry. Red doesn't stand out against brown (even when you have tried hard to find a brown with very little red in it) and from a distance my unit looks a bit … meh. |
| B6GOBOS | 10 Jul 2016 9:33 a.m. PST |
The continental line of 1776. Lots of shades of brown. Some of my favorites units of the war. |
| nevinsrip | 10 Jul 2016 6:00 p.m. PST |
B6GOBOS, "Some of my favorites units of the war." Such as??? |
| Supercilius Maximus | 11 Jul 2016 8:45 a.m. PST |
Brown was a common colour for civilian coats, and hence there was a lot of brown material around at the start of the war. Ditto blue, although this became more expensive when the Rebels decided to clothe their entire army in it. Undyed (white/stone/cloth-coloured) wool was also common. The brown-faced-red uniforms really became popular from 1778, when the first batches of Lottery Coats came over from France. |
