Mounted AWI

[kingsmt]

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.

[FifteensAway]

Some nice animated figures mixed in there. 

[kingsmt]

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

[vtsaogames]

Is that a bugler with the pistol?

[kingsmt]

Sorry Vista, but which picture are you referring too?

"Is that a bugler with the pistol?"

[vtsaogames]

The chap shooting the redcoat.

[kingsmt]

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.

[kingsmt]

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

[vtsaogames]

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.

[kingsmt]

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.

[Aaron]

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

[kingsmt]

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