AWI British Light Dragoons

Just when I thought British AWI uniforms couldn't get any fiddlier, the 16th and 17th light dragoons reached the front of the queue and made me yearn for the relative simplicity of Napoleonic French Guard cavalry uniforms. Chevrons all over the place, plus I had to do the 16th twice both mounted and on foot:

Six elements of dismounted 16th will hopefully be enough for most OOBs and will also serve nicely for skirmish games:

This entailed the purchase of two of the Perry sets, comprising twelve figures in six different skirmishing poses:

Along with an NCO:

I also painted twelve figures for the mounted version of the 16th. The 16th were heavily engaged in the War including the battles of Germantown, Brandywine and Monmouth, before returning to England in 1779:

I included three skirmishing figures for a bit of variety:

As a Royal regiment, the 16th being the Queen's Regiment of Light Dragoons, I did not put the trumpeter in reverse colours:

The 17th have been sculpted in the Emsdorf helmet which provided a nice change to the Tarleton of the 16th:

Some of the figures are depicted with pistols and are ostensibly on picket duty, but they do not look out of place alongside the other rank and file which are all depicted in attacking poses:

In this case the trumpeter is in reversed colours, the 17th regiment having white facings:

That is another 36 figures completed toward the project:

Next up will be some British Legion cavalry, which I suspect will much easier to complete.