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I like the accurate figures. The figures are a little small on some kits but I painted up a slug of Civil War, Zulu war , knights and my favorite is their Rev War figures. The sculpting is good. Leadmen. Fun to paint.
 
The sculpting is great . One of these days I will paint them. Just did a bunch of castings. I am going to be one busy painter.
 
Accurate figs do have very nice detail. I have not had a chance to paint my Rev War figs, but when I do I'll post them. They look like they go real good with Barzo's. The Civil War have good poses also. Mike:)
 
Accurate makes a good size figure. Does any one know the history of the company? I have 4 sets that my father gave me. 2 ACW and 2 AWI:D

It is good to have a father who likes to off load the stuff he no longer wants:D
 
kilted vampire said:
Accurate makes a good size figure. Does any one know the history of the company? I have 4 sets that my father gave me. 2 ACW and 2 AWI:D

It is good to have a father who likes to off load the stuff he no longer wants:D
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Hi Kilted,
Accurate was a British company started I believe in the late 80s, early 90s by a John Jefferies (I think I'm close to the last name). He was trying to revive detailed plastic figures for the modern market and started with ACW which you have some of them pictured and the Rev War. I think Bill Farmer sculpted them and eventually the 100 Years' War range came out (in a slightly smaller scale) and there were plans for a Zulu War range (I saw a pic of some scuplts in Plastic Warrior some years back). These never saw the light of day as the company ended it's run but what I saw would have been just cracking! Later Accurate's molds were picked up by Imex and have been released by them (as well as Revell in 1/72 for some number of years). Too bad they didn't stay the course as the line was truly nice and had lots of potential. I believe Richard Conte knew the owner and had some dealings with them back in the beginning. Of course RC has taken the ball and run with it in his own way. Just a little info for what it's worth. I've always liked painting up the Accurate guys as they really come alive with some paint. Cheers!
Mike
 
The first soldiers I ever bought with the intention of painting were:

A box of

Accurate Figures Union Infantry
(20 dark blue figures in 10 poses)

and an accompanying box of

Accurate Figures Confederate Infantry
(20 light grey figures in 10 poses).

I was hooked.....









............for life! ;)
 
There's a couple of good poses in the series but the gear is usually worn wrong. Rifle positions also don't match American drill positions. The belts are too thin and no Union figures are wearing the "Sack" fatigue jacket. The figures with "Frock" dress coats are good for some units such as US Heavy Artillery fighting as infantry in 1864-65. The figures in short shell jackets of course are Confederates, or New York troops in state issue jackets. I've good about 100 all together. I changed the head position on the figure ramming so that he can stand sideways, looking forward in ranks with the firing figure and take up less space. They drilled to be able to load and fire with their weapon and arms close to the body. The troops fought in close formation in two ranks even in the CW unless deployed as skirmishers.

I've been reenacting CW since the 80s. Wearing the gear and drilling in ranks by period manuals made me look at the figures a little harder. Getting the figures to cast in one piece in production molds must have caused some sacrifices in detail and position or it was lack of research on the part of the sculptors. All in all for price these are fun figures and paint up pretty well with the few I tried.
 
I'd be afraid to research things in too much depth Scott as it would probably put me off most figures for their lack of historical accuracy. :eek:

As long as a Rebel soldier isn't carrying an M16 I'm pretty much inclined to turn a blind eye. :)

As a former Australian Regular Army soldier myself I find that I am very critical of war movies for the very reason you mention. I used to enjoy them before I tasted the realities for myself.

Keep up the good work.

Cheers
The General
 
Thanks. There's a site called ...http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Index.htm

..that reviews 25mm scale figures. Most of them have 54mm equivelents from the same companies. They reviewed the Accurate CW figures pretty well.

I like to set my figures up to recreate the battalion formations that they used and Accurates are good for that.



"..As a former Australian Regular Army soldier .."

Good Onya mate!
 
einaroneeye said:
Hi Kilted,
Accurate was a British company started I believe in the late 80s, early 90s by a John Jefferies (I think I'm close to the last name). He was trying to revive detailed plastic figures for the modern market and started with ACW which you have some of them pictured and the Rev War. I think Bill Farmer sculpted them and eventually the 100 Years' War range came out (in a slightly smaller scale) and there were plans for a Zulu War range (I saw a pic of some scuplts in Plastic Warrior some years back). These never saw the light of day as the company ended it's run but what I saw would have been just cracking! Later Accurate's molds were picked up by Imex and have been released by them (as well as Revell in 1/72 for some number of years). Too bad they didn't stay the course as the line was truly nice and had lots of potential. I believe Richard Conte knew the owner and had some dealings with them back in the beginning. Of course RC has taken the ball and run with it in his own way. Just a little info for what it's worth. I've always liked painting up the Accurate guys as they really come alive with some paint. Cheers!
Mike
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You're pretty much on target here Mike except that the Rev War figures were the first series followed by the ACW. I met John Jeffries several times when he was first setting up Accurate and he gave me some test shots of the Rev War figures, there was an extra pose - a British infantryman kneeling with musket and bayonet at the ready - which John didn't like for some reason and so he dropped it and it never got issued when the boxes went on sale. An Australian collector who was working in London at the time heard about this extra pose, went to see John and bought up every piece that had been moulded, the trunk of his car was filled to bursting with just this one pose. The Aussie swapped one or two of them before he returned to Australia taking all the rest of them with him, they were subsequently all destroyed along with the majority of his massive collection when his house burnt down in a fire. Needless to say that kneeling pose is extremely rare now!

It was Bill Farmer that sculpted them and he has a website showing much of his work at www.figuresculptor.plus

John Jeffries had lots of ideas for figures he wanted to produce and a graphic designer called Mike Ellis (who later went on to produce the Marksman range of ACW figures) drew up some designs for him, they were mostly Napoleonic and Mike gave me some copies of the drawings after Accurate went bust. John put everything he had into Accurate but the venture was a bit ahead of it's time and subsequently he lost everything and drifted into obscurity. From memory I don't think Accurate ever produced the Medieval range, after the ACW there was a tie up with Revell who brought them out in 1/72 scale and very much later they came out in 54mm. I lost track of the story after that so I don't know how Imex came to get them.:)
 
Accurate Union firing line. (One IMEX officer and 2 wounded)

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Mike, Brian, Scott, It is very cool to see the figures being talked about again. They are truly worth the discussion. I have the ARW figures as well. I did not realise the poses were not accurate!:eek: I would love to see them painted. My father has been going through some of his sets that he picked up in the 80s and 90s and I have been the lucky recipient. The AIP figures unfortunately dwarf the the Accurate figures. It is good to know about the Imex tie in and I will look at all of them more closely.

Scott, Where did you get the flags for your figures?
 
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Flags?

I go on the "Internets" and copy graghics of the flags I need, then resize them with "Paintbrush". I do a lot of "copy-paste" to get the reverse to make the oposite sides. A lot of reenactment groups have graghic of their unit colors that work. I don't fully paint my figures but I like the color of the "colors.'

If you're looking for a particular flag let me know.
 
Scott said:
Flags?

I go on the "Internets" and copy graghics of the flags I need, then resize them with "Paintbrush". I do a lot of "copy-paste" to get the reverse to make the oposite sides. A lot of reenactment groups have graghic of their unit colors that work. I don't fully paint my figures but I like the color of the "colors.'

If you're looking for a particular flag let me know.
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Uh ok . How about Irish Jasper Greens? Seriously, Thank you. I would like to be able to do that. There is a maker called the flag guy. He is really good. Makes the flags out of paper but textures them. Really nice. Ever seen them.
 
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