MinuteMen Firing (1 Viewer)

[NEVINSRIP]

This is a companion piece to the Perry Northern Militia Men firing from behind a fence.
It's a couple of topics down from here, if you wish to compare.

A few are Perry's and the rest are conversions using KMM heads on various bodies.

I love the Foundry MinuteMan with the blunderbuss.
I filed his head down to the hairline and used greenstuff to form the headgear.
One of my best conversions, I think.

Some New England Militia firing from behind a stone wall at the retreating British.
Everything is scratch built by me, except the trees, which I improved beyond belief. Cheap Ebay crap.

I forget who made the walls, but I broke them apart and laid some talus down, to represent where the wall had collapsed.
I think that it made it more interesting looking.
It took several washes and drybrushings to get it all to look like that. But I am pleased with the results.

At some point there will be a British piece, featuring some Redcoats hightailing it back to Boston.

Figures painted by the most excellent John Bryant.

 

[TomNT]

Excellent work all round, love the grasses, ruined stone wall and trees.

Tom

 

[Warrior]

You missed your calling in life, you should have opened a scenics company for wargamers, you do terrific work, I could easily find a home in my 20mm for this piece, the piece with the fence on it and the hill you made, spectacular really.

But, if you made scenery for a living, then it wouldn't be fun, which is the whole point of the hobby, to have fun.

The John Bryant who paints the figures isn't from Massachusetts by any chance is he?

 

[NEVINSRIP]

The John Bryant who paints the figures isn't from Massachusetts by any chance is he?

He is the King of Danvers, Mass.

 

[Warrior]

The John Bryant who paints the figures isn't from Massachusetts by any chance is he?

He is the King of Danvers, Mass.

I thought so................funny story about John; about 15 or so years ago on one of my trips to Gettysburg, I went to the gift shop in the old Wax Museum and in a glass case they had a boatload of painted 28mm Dixon figures, they were very well done. Although a bit large for my 20mm collecting, they were too good to pass up and since I'm not a full blown fanatical freak when it comes to scale, I bought about 10 of them. I asked the girl in the store where they got them and she said from a person in Massachusetts.

I went back to Gettysburg the following year and was bummed out when I returned to the gift shop and the figures were no longer in the case.

Several years ago at the local Woburn MA show, a collector came up to my table and he was interested in the First Legion ACW figures. We started talking and he mentioned how he likes to paint figures, he used to paint small scale Dixon ACW figures, so I asked him to email me pictures when he got home.

I got the pictures soon afterward and they were a dead ringer for the figures I bought and sure enough, I asked him if he painted them, he said yes.

It really is a small world..................haven't seen him at the Woburn show the past few times, hope he's doing ok; please give him my best the next time you talk to him.......................

 

[NEVINSRIP]

I thought so................funny story about John; about 15 or so years ago on one of my trips to Gettysburg, I went to the gift shop in the old Wax Museum and in a glass case they had a boatload of painted 28mm Dixon figures, they were very well done. Although a bit large for my 20mm collecting, they were too good to pass up and since I'm not a full blown fanatical freak when it comes to scale, I bought about 10 of them. I asked the girl in the store where they got them and she said from a person in Massachusetts.

I went back to Gettysburg the following year and was bummed out when I returned to the gift shop and the figures were no longer in the case.

Several years ago at the local Woburn MA show, a collector came up to my table and he was interested in the First Legion ACW figures. We started talking and he mentioned how he likes to paint figures, he used to paint small scale Dixon ACW figures, so I asked him to email me pictures when he got home.

I got the pictures soon afterward and they were a dead ringer for the figures I bought and sure enough, I asked him if he painted them, he said yes.

It really is a small world..................haven't seen him at the Woburn show the past few times, hope he's doing ok; please give him my best the next time you talk to him.......................

About 10 years ago I bought John entire ACW collection from him. I am trying to decide if I want to sell it or not. ...Bill