American artillery (8)

This should really be "American artillery (7)", but then that wouldn't include my Rhode Island artillery sets, which were the last American artillery bits I painted, back in 2017. The figures here are from Brigade Games' AWI range. When I placed an order a few months back I bought some Continental and militia packs, which I'm slowly working through, and decided to add one of the artillery packs. As seems to be the fashion these days, each pack comes with 6 crew figures and no gun, which you have to buy separately. The gun is a Brigade Games "6 pounder", although it's a bit on the large side when compared to the Perry/Foundry 6 pounders. As my AWI artillery crews each have four figures, I put two on pennies to have them floating around the rear or standing next to ammunition carts.  

This set takes my tally of American artillery crews to 20, which is pretty ridiculous.  Even for a large battle like Brandywine you only need twelve guns on the American side.  But these are nice figures, even if the faces are a little "rat-like" (as David Bickley describes them!), and I'm pleased to add them to my collection.  Only one of the figures is wearing a uniform coat, and even then it doesn't have lapels or cuffs.  I painted the cuffs on, because I wanted to have at least someone wearing a semblance of a proper coat, and then I tried to put the others mainly in white/beige/off-white clothes to suggest they are in uniform and have just taken off their coats.  But I quite like the irregular look.  In this respect, the Brigade Games artillery figures are similar to the Eureka Miniatures ones, which are also in shirtsleeves and coat-free (although by the look of it, the other "loading" Brigade Games pack does have a couple of figures in uniform coats).    

Apologies for the lack of posts - I simply ran out of photos and have been too busy until today to take any more!

6 figures.  Painted September 2024.