Monday, 15 May 2017

War of 1812 - Second Unit of Canadian Voltiguers - Completed

Here is the second unit of the Old Glory Canadian Voltiguers - augmented by one element of Knuckleduster figures. Unfortunately, unlike the British Royal Marines, the Knuckleduster sculpt is significantly different from the OG one - the headdress in particular - the OG one looks like some kind of bearskin with a peak, whilst the Knuckleduster one looks more like a stovepipe shake with some fur over it - I don't know which is more accurate and I don't really care that much - its just a bugger they look so different!

Anyway, once they are on the table and people are looking at them form 3 feet away, they probably wont notice, so its not a big issue! Hopefully the Knuckleduster Maryland infantry and Glengarry Light infantry I have ordered to top up the OG units will be a better match!

As mentioned, I painted this unit slightly differently from the first one - with standard grey trousers rather than the pale blue I did on the first one. For some reason, I seemed to be one figure short in this unit too, but I solved that by just making the command element consist of only the officer and musician figures.









One last unit of Royal Marines to do and then I will be hanging out for the next Old Glory package to arrive!

4 comments:

  1. They look great, wonderful painting and basing!

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  2. Thanks as always for your kind comments Phil

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  3. Looking great Keith. I am about a month away from ording my first Americans, althoug my force will be much smaller than yours - I am just going for a single infantry brigade.

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  4. Sounds good Mark - you will be getting Brigade Games figures I assume? I will (probably) stop after this latest batch of figures arrive and are painted....

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