The 2nd Connecticut Light Horse

As the occasional reader may recall, Colin Ashton and I made a joint order to Eureka Miniatures for collection from them at Salute. Amongst my part of the order were the American gun crew, featured in the previous Blog post, and a number of ragged Continental Light Dragoons. I say a number, because three arrived safely, while the remainder are apparently still en route. It might help jog my memory as to how many had not both of us lost our order lists!
What may be, I have now finished the three that did arrive. I browsed the web one evening looking for suitable small units to depict to make use of the ragged appearance of the figures and lighted on two depictions of the 2nd Connecticut Light Dragoons, Captain James Green's Troop. Little seems to be written about them, so they were an obvious choice in our largely fictitious battles here in GHQ.

The three figures I received comprised an officer, a trooper and a negro trumpeter. One print had shown the trooper on a grey horse, so I took that as the base colour idea, making the officer's horse rather more white than the trooper's. For the negro trumpeter I chose a dun-like colour scheme. All three were washed in a strong Agrax Earthshade wash from GW as a base colour. The trooper's horse highlighted in Foundry Boneyard Light shade, the Officer's in Foundry Arctic Grey Light over Austrian White Dark shade. The negro trumpeter's horse is highlighted in Foundry Rawhide Light shade and the mane, tail and lower leg areas washed in Foundry Brown Armour Wash. Anyway, lecture aside, here they are ready for action in GHQ ~

My Perry Miniatures order arrive on Saturday. True to form they were bristling with bl**dy vent runs and covered with bits of kaypok from the packaging. Unsurprisingly I've not got round to prepping them yet for painting! I do however have a new enthusiastic recruit to our hobby, my granddaughter Emma, aged 3 ~