The War of 1812 or Bogavanians.
I have long admired the American uniforms from the War of 1812. Having read, in my early teens, a 1970s Airfix magazine, Gerry Embleton, article on Airfix Collectors series conversions of such figures inspired an early interest. For this reason, quite a few years ago I included some of them in an order from Armies in Plastic. However, I did not get around to painting them until today, when I undercoated 24 of them. My aim is to have them based and painted by Thursday, to use in a 'battle against dinosaurs! You heard that right, but if you are a regular reader of this blog nothing much should surprise you. Like most of my troops, they have more than one possible use. They could even be Quadlings for my Ozzz games. The Quadlings were meant to be rather fat and probably slightly shorter than 'humans'. However I just use normal Napoleonic troops including my Britains Detail French. The uniform of the American regular infantry looked a lot like a blue and white version of...
