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[HistoryfortheAges]

Andrea does have an excellent Custer's Last Stand 54mm metal kit for those interested in assembling and painting it themselves. It is just a small diorama with Custer as the centerpiece.

 

[marco55]

Andrea does have an excellent Custer's Last Stand 54mm metal kit for those interested in assembling and painting it themselves. It is just a small diorama with Custer as the centerpiece.

Yes it's nice but quite expensive.Andrea also has many mounted Sioux as well.These are nice as well but if you don't paint it will cost a lot more to get them painted.
Mark

 

[acw cavalry]

hi Lancer,

Referring to my previous post on this topic, I have also penned an article on the Fetterman Massacre which as you are no doubt aware was 10 years before the Little Big Horn and Custer debacle, for TSC magazine, but alas there are currently no figures in production to help illustrate the article! Given the amount of interest shown on this message board for the period in question and western themed figures in general I would have thought that at least one of the main makers in 54 mm scale of either matte or gloss would have taken the plunge by now. I also agree that some of the best examples of US cavalry made were by Artefact of Australia and were definitely on a par with the Music in Miniature range that fearured US cavalry under attack from Plain Indians. Andrea along with other companies do make very good kits of the period in question, but I agree if you then have to get them assembled and painted to the required standard they start to become expensive and perhaps outside the reasonable remit of a number of collectors especially if you want multiple figures or poses.

This is though a very interesting thread which I hope in time encourages at least one manufacturer that the time period and the battle between the "white man" and the Native American Indians in all its guises is worthy of a proper range rather than just the occasional figure(s) every now and again.

Kind Regards
Martin aka acw cavalry

 

[Spanish soldier]

Mr. Ken, you think? perhaps in the not too distant future?I Far West

 

[Spanish soldier]

Mr. Ken, a line is not interesting for the future?

best regards

Francisco

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Indians, blue soldiers, cannons, machine guns, forts, trains, wagons .......
What more could you want?

Blankets infected with smallpox?...but no, seriously (sort of) I had the Britains Deetail 7th Cavalry as a child. I am probably the only kid who ever wore the features off plastic soldiers from wear (and the occasional burning at the stake). Had it not been for series such as those, I probably would never have developed my current interest in collecting. And a good quality series of this period would no doubt do well.

Despite what you may think of Ford's films, what is the greatest point of reference for Zulu War collectors and what inspires so many of the sculpts we see? I am guessing a certain Stanley Baker and Michael Caine film. Ford's influence on a line of this kind would, if nothing else, generate a lot of interest.