"Galloping Major SYW/FIW Redcoats coming up on Kickstarter" Topic

We hope our first Kickstarter project will be well received. If successful, we plan to continue releasing more troops for British and French armies alongside more North American participants for both sides – but at an increased pace. This all rests on your support.

With your help through Kickstarter, we are hoping to take a big step forward, enabling the release of our British redcoat "hatmen" and command figures. Your support could enable us to make this release our biggest and most exciting to date and if successful, help to create a stronger platform for further releases.

As a small company relying on sales of existing packs to finance the release of new ones, we have so far been prevented from making new releases available to customers as quickly as we would like to. The high quality of our castings is frequently remarked upon by reviewers and customers alike, and that's equally important to us, we don't believe in increasing margins at the cost of "cutting corners". Producing figures at this standard requires ongoing investment from us – but the results speak for themselves.

I've already completed he sculpting work on most of the figures for this project and we've already invested in master castings for a good many of them. If enough of you will pledge your support we'll be able to move forward promptly to completion for you.

We hope to "press the button" on the Kickstarter before July is out, I'll make an announcement on here as soon as it goes live.

Cheers,
Lance

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Well now. THAT's a pose I have rarely seen in a miniature, if ever.
Interesting.

When is the kickstarter starting?

Winston Smith – Thanks, moving across from charge your bayonet to push your bayonet, standard bayonet drill until mid 1760s, a direct development from charge and push your pike. I've always wanted to represent this as it so much encapsulates the feel of the period drill, but few are aware of it.
Other postures will also be included.

Jefritrout – all being well it will be started sometime this month :-)

That's a pose I would love to see for British at Culloden, where it was practically doctrine.
In fact, the differences in uniforms are so minor, go ahead!

That's right Winston Smith, although some units wore the coat without fastening back the tails in the 1740s, and others wore the belt over the coat, the uniform is pretty much the same from the early 1740s.

3 of the first figures I painted for the Kickstarter.

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All 6 soldiers from the first pack for the Kickstarter painted – back and front views.

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Are these the ones to represent the 60th Regiment? I have been yearning to paint up some Royal Americans since my visit to Fort Pitt.

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The Kickstarter will include 60th Foot firing, the other ranks have no lace on the coats.
Regards,
Lance

The Limited Edition senior officer figure that will go out to all backers of our Redcoats Kickstarter at £49.00 GBP or more – he'll only be available with the Kickstarter and not thereafter.

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Some things to note about the F&I period uniforms:

Swords were largely done away with, especially in North America

Officer's sword belts were worn under the waistcoat, as shown in portrait after portrait. The sword just magically hovers beside them. :-)

The above "Charge bayonets!" position is "the" correct position of the period, until modified in 1759, as shown in Knox's Journal. In other words, this charge position was not a special pose, it was "the" position for conducting a charge. The rear two ranks would be at the recover position.

The belts were not commonly worn over the coat, as noted above.

Missing kit for future sculpts might include a tin canteen, haversack and cowhide knapsack, worn over the shoulder.

Nice stuff. :-)

Oh, ditch the powdered hair in the field. By 1758 most had cut their hair short for service in North America. Probably not for service in Europe.