Middleguard
Private 1st Class
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- May 14, 2014
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I have been toying with the idea of taking the Armies In Plastic ACW Union artillery heavy siege gun crew and adding heads from the Timpo Wellington or Blucher for the bicorn hat to make passing Napoleonic Austrian gun crews in overcoats. Has anyone tried this or do you think it would pass the 6 foot by 6 foot rule? I currently use AWI figures from BMC but they are not really any sort of a match. Any other suggestions would be welcomed as I am willing to butcher as many toys soldiers as I need to. I don't really have money to blow on all the parts to make couple of dozen figures from helmet parts it would take.
I use BMC Mexicans as Austrian infantry and I have plenty to cut up but the plastic is very hard to cut. I have broken the tips off of plenty of Xacto knives. The uniform is acceptable to me but the poses lack the starting point to make guns crews from. Armies In Plastic plastic is much easier to work with and even more so is the recast Timpo stuff.
I use BMC Mexicans as Austrian infantry and I have plenty to cut up but the plastic is very hard to cut. I have broken the tips off of plenty of Xacto knives. The uniform is acceptable to me but the poses lack the starting point to make guns crews from. Armies In Plastic plastic is much easier to work with and even more so is the recast Timpo stuff.