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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: kingsmt on 04 July 2023, 06:33:37 AM

Title: Mounted AWI
Post by: kingsmt on 04 July 2023, 06:33:37 AM

I like to use amoeba shaped cut outs of MDF to based various  AWI mounted figures on.

The MDF  bases allow me to customize the terrain to my liking.
These are a selection of them.

Title: Re: Mounted AWI
Post by: FifteensAway on 04 July 2023, 07:33:46 AM

Some nice animated figures mixed in there. 

Title: Re: Mounted AWI
Post by: kingsmt on 05 July 2023, 05:34:57 AM

Thanks 15's. I'm just showing off my terrain skills!

Title: Re: Mounted AWI
Post by: vtsaogames on 06 July 2023, 09:22:31 PM

Is that a bugler with the pistol?

Title: Re: Mounted AWI
Post by: kingsmt on 07 July 2023, 09:44:26 AM

Sorry Vista, but which picture are you referring too?

"Is that a bugler with the pistol?"

Title: Re: Mounted AWI
Post by: vtsaogames on 08 July 2023, 01:57:52 AM

The chap shooting the redcoat.

Title: Re: Mounted AWI
Post by: kingsmt on 08 July 2023, 09:12:02 AM

Hi Vista,  I do not believe so. These are the rest of the photos of that piece.
I think that the figure is an Old Glory sculpt. Maybe a Mountain Man?

I did this so long ago that I just can recall where the figure came from.
I do seem to recall converting the rider, by replacing his right arm, with an arm firing a pistol.

I made a whole series of Mounted "Over Mounted Men" on their way to Cowpens.
This was just one of them.

Title: Re: Mounted AWI
Post by: kingsmt on 09 July 2023, 07:14:27 AM

Hi Vista, Can I ask why you thought that the figure was a bugler?
Am I missing something?

Title: Re: Mounted AWI
Post by: vtsaogames on 16 July 2023, 03:15:26 PM

I didn't mean a manufacturer. I was thinking of the Black bugler who shot one of Tarleton's dragoons on the cover of The Road to Guilford Courthouse. Sorry for the confusion. I always understand my own writing. Not true for other folks.

Title: Re: Mounted AWI
Post by: kingsmt on 16 July 2023, 09:31:56 PM

Hi Vista, That painting on the cover of "Guilford Courthouse" is of William Washington's "boy" (slave) Gilly, who shot one of Tarleton's Dragoons after Washington's sword snapped. He saved Washington's life.

And the incident actually occurred at Cowpens, where Washington and Tarleton squared off against one another.

The figures is an Old Glory mounted frontiersman. I think that I replaced his arm (or his hand) with a flintlock pistol arm or hand. It was a long time ago! It's just one of a series of small dioramas that I did portraying Over Mountain Men travelling to Kings Mountain.

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Post by: Aaron on 17 July 2023, 01:57:30 PM

It's a particularly effective conversion, Bill. Did you swap the head on this one also?

Title: Re: Mounted AWI
Post by: kingsmt on 18 July 2023, 05:57:06 AM

Hi Aaron, No, I did not do a head swap on this figure. Just the arm as I recall.