"25mm ACW Figures Needed" Topic

I'd like to do a side-by-side comparison of 25mm ACW figures. I currently have:

Mark Fenlon
Perry (Plastics)
Renegade
Chinstrap (formerly Freikorps 25)

I'm looking for people to donate one unpainted figure so I can cover all the bases. If you'd like to contribute, all I need is one unpainted figures in a standing marching pose. I'm especially looking for:

Old Glory
Foundry
Sash & Saber
Redoubt

If you'd care to contribute just reply here so people know which brands are covered. Then just pop your figure in teh mail to:

DeepFriedHappyMice.com
ATTN: Mark Severin
PO Box 8742
Cincinnati OH
45208

And if there are brands I've missed please post them here and we'll see if we can include them!

Hey Mark!

Drop me an email this evening. I am pretty sure I have some of those lying around in the basement.

Lee (lee at paintedarmies dat com)

dot = dat in Pittsburgh!

Mark, a call to Sash and Saber would definately score you a figure; when I was looking at Sash and Saber with the idea of doing an entire army of them, Chris was kind enough to send me a pair of figures (his choice) to look at, since they had no photos of them online. Their customer service is first rate all the way.

I don't suppose its worth pointing out that the Perry ones are 28mm?

Guy

", Chris was kind enough to send me a pair of figures (his choice) to look at, since they had no photos of them online."

??? Almost all the figures have pics on their site.

Guy:

I'm not sure how you measure but the Perry production measures 26.5mm from boot sole to top of head. Is this a new scale?

Actually many people I know (me included) are not very anal about mixing figures and so mix anything from 23.8 to 29.2mm…

@Virtualscratchbuilder

Many do but none of them do side-by-side comparisons so gamers can tell if they think Brand X mixes well with Brand Y.

Lee:

I'll drop you a line later, thanks!

Dixon, Frontier and Rafm are missing. I think yo can still get Frontier if you catch the guy at a Florida show. Are Rafm still being produced?

Almost forgot about Irregular, Minifigs and Bicorne (Bicorne picked up the old Connoisseur line).

I'm not sure how you measure but the Perry production measures 26.5mm from boot sole to top of head. Is this a new scale?

Hmm funny… I make it 28mm, more with the hat (29 – 30mm). So do the Perrys…

TMP link

Guy

Guy

I was doing a Russian army, and needed to see how they compared to Foundry figures:)

Don't forget Elite, First Corps, and Firing Line. If I had some available I would gladly send some to you.

The old Scruby 30's (available from Historifigs) fit with Old Glory, etc., at least heightwise.

I thought the measurement was from boot sole to eye?

I thought the measurement was from boot sole to eye?

Now you see that's where the problem starts; people tend to use whatever measurement they wish. No standardised measurement exists. There's 28mm and there's 28mm… if we were to look at one end of the scale we'd see dwarves compared with the other end (or would they be giants?).

Here's a comparison courtesy of Fonzie.

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IMHO the Perrys are more anatomically correct than the other samples and are close to the rule of seven.

Is this really a problem? I had a mate who bought a 25mm stage coach from the States. When he got it, he found to his dismay it was he would call 20mm or 1/72 scale, so useless to him. I like to mix figures in a unit but such is not possible without a little research (so I laud Extra Crispy's intentions).

So it is a case of Caveat Emptor while the blanket label of 28mm is applied so widely.

Guy

Dont forget Eagle Figures ACW – email us and we'll send some samples otherwise see TMP recently featuring our photos