On July 5, 1814, Brig. General Winfield Scott
led his men into battle at Chippewa, Ontario, Canada..
Dressed in Grey fatigue jackets and white trousers, "Scott's
Brigade" gained a monumental victory for America during the "Battle of Chippewa", against a superior and more
experienced British force, The Royal Scots.
This marked the 1st victory for the U.S. in this War.
This figure represents what a Private in BrigGen. Scott's Brigade may have looked like.
This figure is outfitted
in a grey fatigue jacket. At the time this soldier represents, due to a shortage of quality dyeable wool, BrigGen. Scott's
soldier were sent the grey fatigue jacket, white trousers, black gaiters and leather shakos.
The leather shako for this
figure is the 1st attempt that I made using real leather, thanks to a patern that I got from Eric (the saint) on the 1/6th
boards.
The
grey fatigue jacket was a Sideshow Toys Civil war jacket that I reworked into an 1814 fatigue jacket. The white trousers,
gaiters, and boots are from DID also.
The L'herbette pack is also a modified SST product. The canteen is from the SST Revolutionary war figure.
Apparently it was used at one time in the Northwest during the war.
The musket is a modified SST Civil War musket that
has a Tony Barton lock on it, thus changing it into a M1808 Contract Musket(at least that's my story, and I'm sticking to
it).
Although at this time, the cross belts should have been white, there were reports of some U.S. soldiers still wearing
the black cross belts.
I modeled this figure from a drawing from the Don Troiani book. This figure was made in 2006.
