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Winston Smith22 Jul 2016 4:59 p.m. PST

I'm going through Chartrand's AWI French Osprey.

First off, I have Old Glory, which are fine for the 1781 Yorktown Campaign. I have OG Lauzun's Legion. They are fine for making the Lancers. I also have Battle Honors, also lancer without pelisse hussars.
((Dammit autocorrect! When I type "pelisse", I do not want it changed to "pelvisses"!)) Ahem.
And my hussars sans pelisse with sword are the magnificent Foundry SYW Freikorps hussars by Copplestone.

I would like to do some of the weird 1776 uniforms for a Savannah "send me a company of your best men!" look, with every stand painted differently.
Are some Perry French in this uniform with the odd cocked hat with 4 corners and plumes?

Does anyone make the colonial infantry without lapels, like Martinique or the black Chasseurs de Saint Domingue?

And how about Artillerists? Front Rank? Who else?

Supercilius Maximus23 Jul 2016 3:27 a.m. PST

Perry Miniatures has a complete range for Yorktown, minus the Volontaires de St Simon (possibly made up from Colonial units). The range includes gunners in fatigue dress, with forage caps and waistcoats, rather than the tricornes and full length coats normally portrayed; and both types of Lauzun Legion cavalry.

Perry do make the earlier uniform you refer to – codes 149 to 152 inclusive – listed as "in the 1776 coats".

The Front Rank AWI range is one of their earliest, and thus not as "tall" as modern 28mm ranges.

Foundry do make some lovely hussar figures, don't they? Either they or Front Rank – maybe even both – also have some lovely dismounted figures in mirlitons (wrong for officers, but great for ORs). You might also like to look at Eureka's WAS Saxon hussar range, which includes dismounted figures skirmishing and horse holders, as well as mounted guys. With a bit of imagination, their French Revolutionary hussars can also be fitted in – especially the chap in the water fountain vignette, knocking out his pipe* on his boot.

[* You should probably be careful typing that into a search engine as well.]

If Old Glory don't make the Colonial French, I can't think of anyone else who might. Alan P has promised them for a while now, but says he won't be doing anything more on AWI for a while yet.

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