AWI British Light Battalions

After having recently completed two battalions of combined British grenadiers it seemed only logical to do the same with two battalions of combined light infantry. These 48 figures took just under a fortnight, and have all been based on larger skirmish bases even though I have read a few accounts which indicate that on several occasions only up to half the battalion may have been deployed in skirmish order:

The first battalion mirrors that of the first battalion of the combined grenadiers with, from left to right, detachments from the 4th, 5th 23rd, 27th, 33rd and 38th regiments:

The command element is from the 4th regiment, so no reversed jacket:

The second battalion is made up of detachments from 46th,  52nd, 55th, 49th, 45th and 40th regiments:

The command element is from the 55th so in this case I did reverse the hornist's livery:

There are half a dozen different skirmishing poses in the Perry range alongside three distinct command figures, so a fair bit of variety to mix in to the various stands: 

As well as a few detachments from buff-faced regiments:

I noted there is some speculation over what colour the light company feathers may have been. I decided to go with a dark green as this is the colour worn by the later Napoleonic light companies, and went with black cross-belts as indicated by several sources I referred to:

The obligatory casualty dial is a standard casualty figure from the Perry range without any jacket, so I painted him in a red vest to denote a light company casualty:

That's two more battalions now completed, to make a dozen in total so far:

Next up will be the Guard regiment detachments and 23rd Royal Welch fusiliers, the latter of which saw extensive service across all theatres throughout the War.