Having got the Canadians and Loyalists out of the way tonight - fully based - I eagerly turned my attention to my three skirmish units (Morgan's Riflemen, Dearhorn's Light Infantry and the Indians) left to do from the first batch of figures ordered.
So, first challenge was how many figures per base and what size base to use. I settled on 8 per 40x30 base (infantry are done on 40x20 bases), so five bases per unit.
Problem no.1 - It seems the only 40mm frontage bases I have are the 40x20 ones with the rest being 60x60, 60x30 and 30x30, so I have resorted to multilating the 60x30 into 40x30.
Problem no.2 - Those skirmishers on each strip face to the right, which will make it harder to paint their front, so I had to cut each strip into the four individuals earlier than planned. As each figure is fiddly to pick up, I also had to base them before any painting had even been done! The plan was to fully paint then cut them up then base them....ah well.
On the plus, I cut all three units worth (48 each) tonight, so that job is done, and for the Indians and Rifleman, they have gone back into their bags, whilst the Light Infantry have been based, and some have even had some leather brown (vallejo) painted as their tunic.
Less painting done tonight than hoped but we are ready to go for tomorrow night.....
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