Unit pictures - Jacobite Rebellion

Three unit pictures - hanoverian infantry regiment, with their grenadiers but awaiting their drummer and colours: a unit if Highlandres; and a regiment of Government Highklanders. These last are SYW figures (ESW 12s and 13s).

Jacobite Rebellion: S Range and Lamming SYW

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 I have been mainly in the second half of the nineteenth century recently (see the next few posts) but I have also been looking at figures for the '45 Jacobite Rebellion. I have made slow progress on my S Range figures for the conflict, and was disappointed to decide I couldn't use them alongside the Lamming SYW figures I bought at auction from Bill Lamming. However, I have decided to base both sets of figures in the same way, so this picture shows S range English Jacobite Rebellion Infantry mounted on pennies and then placed in War Bases 1p movement trays. I still need to source flags for the English units and their Jacobite opposition.

Units - 24th Foot 1745

These are the only figures I have from the Jacobite range, I think swapped with Harry for some S Range Ancients. A recent burst of painting activity saw me complete them, as something a bit different. I used the picture from the Blandford on British Infantry Uniforms as a guide. It looks very likely this was also used as the reference for the original figure.


They are of the chubbier S Range build, such as the Crimeans and Franco Prussian range also have - it seems to be a sort of transition towards the current generation Minifigs. (The Napoleonic Range seemed to have an intermediate stage, where the figures were redone with this build, not the full fledged chubby gnome look, and had the figure serial numbers embossed on the top of the base. At some pont, when I have much more time than I have anything important to do, I may go through old Wargamer's Newsletters for the S Range ads to build a timeline of roughly what parts of the S Range came out when.

JR 1s Highlander in kilt with broadsword and targe

JR 2s Highlander in trews with broadsword

JR 3s Highlander in kilt with lochaber axe

JR 4s Highlander in kilt with musket

No photograph of this figure is currently available.

JR 5s Highland Officer with swors and pistol

JR 6s Highland Piper

JR 10s Hanoverian Musketeer advancing

JR 12s Highlander advancing

This highlander is the middle figure in the photograph.

JR 11s Hanoverian Grenadier advancing

The grenadier is the figure on the extreme left.

JR 13s Hanoverian Foot Officer