There are quite a few plastic napoleonics out there now and some mexicans also that can be used or used for parts also. Hat makes dragoons and brunswickers(avant guard). I like the brunswickers but i,m not crazy about the dragoons. The only problem is the lack of poses and the wierd firing postion I also don,t like the heads as I would really like to use the heads for conversions but they just look to funny on other figures. Too bad as then I could make many conversions of various troops including austrain jagers and pioneers. CTS has there mexicans that they use for every thing under the sun. british, austains, french, ect.ect. I also hate that plastic they use fubar. I like to use them for dutch belgain troops along with the marx mexicans. The marx mexicans also have the shoulder rolls like the dutch belgain troops did. Marx also had 60mm mexican american war figures I have a few of them but I,m not crazy about them.
On the mexican subject there are bmc which are pour sculpts but are usefull for conversions but hard to cut up.I like to use the bodies and add new gear and heads for a few extra poses here and there. Brazo makes some nice 1812 war figures that are nice british troops and there are a few of the american troops with shako hats that can be used also. Replicants has a few nice poses but are pricey and lack in varity with just 3 poses per set!Austrains,french,95th riffles,nelsons navy. They also have a overcoat mounted figure that comes with 3 heads and a mounted austrains that looks like its on a little pony from the petting zoo pony ride.
Way too small I hate there horses almost as bad as those dulcop horses
The dulcop to me are pretty munch mostly just good for conversion parts with there huge heads and Jlo butts sticking out on there cavalry figures but they have some good parts to steal for conversions. If you look at the chassiers a chavel coversions I made those are dulcop heads on them. I also like the lancer heads also.
A.I.P have made some nice napoleonics and I think that they are some of the best sculpts that company has made compared to some of the other eras they have done. Nice artillary sets!The french are nice also. The airfix are nice also but like you guys said they are on the small side. They had a few nice plastic kit figures also. I think 2 french foot and 3 british foot and a few cavalry sets also scotts grey,life guard,hussar for the british and lancer and curassier for the french. Timpo had prussains,french grenadiers,british line and highlanders and cavalry for each but I was never crazy about the detail on these figures the best of the bunch was the highlanders and prussains. The facial detail was very lacking as were the guns but if you cut them new heads and weapons they made alright conversions. I always hated there cavalry and horses though. britains detail made some nice british but I,m not crazy for the french and most of the cavalry but the horses are not that bad of sculpts.
A call to arms has some nice figures but again are to small except the light infantry which are a bit bigger for some reason??? wich is funny because light troops were the smaller of the men and when they made there heavy cavalry units they made them like a 1/35 scale almost and heavy cavalry should be large men on big horses??? But I still really like the sculpting on cta figures and wish they would do more than 4 figures in a set whats up with that??? On the small figure subject there is ESCI which makes french and british napoleonics that are listed as 1/32 wich are clearly 1/35 and I don,t like them at all mostly because of how small they are even though they are the only plastic company other than replicants that makes a sapper.There is a russain company that makes some nice russain grenadiers but I,m not sure of the name. Reamsa is the only company that makes spanish troops that I know of and are alright, not my favorite but not to bad. There cavalry i,m not to crazy about and don,t even get me back to bad horses
but I like the french in the overcoat idea and wish some one would come out with a full set of over coat figures as they would be great for coversions.
Jean hoeffler is another company that has some bad napoleonics in foot and cavalry. then theres also jescan with a set of 8 french, Napoleon and 7 frenchmen. Thats about all I can think of in plastic. other than elastolin painted plastic but I,ve never seen one in person and don,t know munch about them. I,ve seen some mokarex from france in pictures but I think there 40mm??? I almost forgot one of my favorites Italeri. They have some great sculpts and are one of my all time favorite plastics but are going up in price these days
They are coming out with some french general staff soon. I,ve seen them on ebay and they are out in england already but not the usa. I,ve seen the box but not the figures. I,ll hold off till I see the figures.
