A call to arms 1/32nd napoleonic figures (1 Viewer)

[9thHussar]

Hi

tried these figures on and off since released some years ago and always a bit frustrated by the scale being a bit small, however, I had another go and they aint as bad as I thought previously.

The British Life Guards in particular are very good figures and they are slightly bigger than the Britains Deetail ACW cavalry troopers as a comparison. Some of the series are larger - these are the British Infantry Guards and Light Infantry sets - I reckon that they were sculpted by Bill Farmer as they are in his style whilst the finer sets (Cavalry, & the French, Belgian, Dutch Infantry) are in the style of Ron Cameron who made many Deetail and Airfix 1/32nd sets. Not sure who made the British Foot Artillery ?

I think that more horse poses would have helped matters but I am going to persevere with them and will post some photos on here when done. They do have potential and they are not expensive compared to other makes. With many makes being produced in China they are one of the few British plastic figure makers left alongside Replicants and Divina Hill who sells the old Charbens and Cherilea plastics.

One challenge is to paint the French Carabiniers cavalry but the helmet is the wrong shape for these regiments. I will have to convert them beforehand, changing for the correct shape/style.

any thoughts/ideas welcome

Regards
9thHussar

 

[Ragnar]

There French Heavy Cav does paint up nice did not do any British Cav howerver one thing i dont like is the heads are looking to the left or right.
The Foot Gaurds are a nice size but only 4 poses there's not much you can do with them and there's nothing on the market that you can place next to them.
Airfix are way to small....Even with some of the faults that ACTA have i do like the brand and think its great that they are made in the UK {thats why i like the 28mm stuff}.
Im even thinking of avoiding anything made in China.
At my work place if we do 100 prototypes for customers only about 10% comes back to us as production run jobs.
The other 90% the Production gets done in China....A nuff is a nuff.
There's plenty of great stuff out there {toysoldiers} made in the UK and the U.S and even Australia to keep me happy painting away for many years ^&grin

 

[9thHussar]

Hi Ragnar
good points - ACTA cavalry would have been great if slightly larger in scale and 2 horse poses per set
9th

 

[Ragnar]

9th some of the Horses in the French Cav sets are rather chunky in the belly so the riders dont fit to good.
And then you have the slimmer horses which fit better with the troopers.
Rather odd as these can be in the same box