Inconsistency in 54mm scale medical series ACW (1 Viewer)

[gettysburgbuff]

The Medical Series in ACW depicting the wounded soldiers (31076) and nurse (31078) are smaller anatomically than other Britain's soldiers in ACW, and are more compatible with Old Northwest Trading Company's union soldiers in camp scenes depicting card playing and cooking. In fact, the Britain's ambulance and hospital steward in the same series seem much larger than the nurse and wounded soldiers. This makes it disappointing when trying to make a scene intermixing the figures. I have to incorporate the wounded soldiers and nurse with ONT figures instead.

 

[6th Wisconsin]

That is disappointing since I am awaiting the nurse and wounded. I do have the stretcher bearers and ambulance set. I have them displayed with the 140th Pennsylvania set which includes two soldiers carrying a wounded comrade. I had noticed that the 140th figures are substantially larger. I was also thinking of getting some camp figures for the display, and I guess I should look to Old Northwest for those.

 

[mestell]

Interesting that you would say this. I recently received the nurse and have no problem with her scale. Being a female figure one would expect her to be less in height as compared to one of the male soldiers. I have not received the wounded soldiers set but am expecting it within the next 7-10 days, so I can not comment on them yet. As far as ONTC ACW figures, my experience is that the earlier sets sculpted by Ken OSen are an exact match scale wise to the current W. Britain offerings - this should be expected since Ken Osen is now the master sculptor for WB. If anything, my experience has been that the current ONTC offerings are slightly larger than the WB figures; ie ONTC #ACW-007 Photographer and #IOW-1001 Forever A Rebel vignette. As far as the nurse - Using a micrometer, and discounting the base, from the bottom of her feet to the top of her head she is 56mm tall. The hospital steward that came with th ambulance is 57 mm tall from the bottom of his shoes to his eyes (approximately 5' 7" on a 6' tall man) - so the nurse is slightly shorter (5' 5") than eye level to a man, which is reasonable and IMO realistic. The collector must also realize that in this hobby the so called advertised scales are all over the map. W Britain is advertised as 54mm when in actuality its slightly larger with the average standing figure being 58-62 mm in height from the botton of their shoes to the top of their hats It will be interesting to see where this thread goes - scale issues always generates discussions.
:smile2: Mike

 

[6th Wisconsin]

Perhaps there is some variation in older and current Britain's figures. I just placed a new Confederate figure beside the stretcher bearers, and there was great consistency. I like the proportions of current figures. Perhaps there is good consistency among the newer figures but not with some old sets.

 

[6th Wisconsin]

I received my nurse, surgeon, and wounded sets today. The whole medical series is very consistent in scale and seems right with more recent combat figures. The nurse is quite petite, but I think that makes sense with a female figure. To me the difference in scale is more between the older and newer scultping. Current sculpts tend to be less stocky and especially have narrower heads. I like that proportion though.

 

[Toy Soldier Brigade]

I have the entire series. They all look the same scale to me.