While I ended up doing four regiments of cavalry for the British I calculated that two of nine figures each should be enough for my Continental army, so I settled on the 2nd and 3rd light dragoons:
As with the 3rd dragoons, these Perry figures are one-piece castings with the horse and rider being single sculpts, although they all come with a choice of several arms which allows for quite a variation in pose and armaments:
It surprised me a little to find that the trumpeters were in reversed colours and I wondered how long that remained the case in practice, but it does make for a nice variation in uniform:
The flag is from GMB and sets off the command stand nicely:
An option for one of the figures is an arm brandishing a pistol which I think is my favourite pose:
The 3rd dragoons or Baylor's horse are almost the opposite in terms of uniform to the 2nd, so complement them nicely:
The trumpeter is again in reversed colours. If research ever discloses that this was not actually the case in practice, I suppose I can simply swap them between regiments...
Another GMB flag for the command stand:
That is the Continental cavalry now completed:
This just leaves ten Continental staff figures, which are currently on the painting table, and a dozen or so civilians to go before my AWI project is completed.
I have however managed to get slightly distracted along the way with some terrain pieces. I hope to have the second of these completed this week, and then it will be back to the final push to complete George Washington and his staff.
