"Berdan's Sharpshooters in 10mm?" Topic

Does anyone know of any 10mm miniatures of Berdan's Sharpshooters? I can't find them in the ranges I'm familiar with. I'm after the classic USSS look (frock coat, leggings, Prussian-style knapsack with mess kit, Sharps rifle, some prone), if possible. I'm using GFI/Minifigs and Pendrakens (i.e. hefty) but I'm not too worried about compatibility.

I don't know of anyone that makes them in 10mm, but at that scale you can paint them to look like Berdan's. If you really have to, cut or file down there pant legs to look like leggings, but I wouldn't bother.

After 1862/63,they were pretty much in regular Federal uniform of blue sack coat and light blue trousers. But they retained their green forage cap as long as they could.

Bob

I agree with FireZouave…in 10mm the differences are barely noticable and are better created with paint. Not sure there's a way to make a musket look like a Sharps.

As for the back pack, you might be able to make your own out of sculpey?

Thanks for your advice, FireZouave and Extra Crispy. I suspect that there are no specific USSS miniatures available in this scale. Your suggestions are certainly my Plan B. Being a true anal-retentive wargamer, I'll grab some frock-coated firing line types, file their knapsacks a bit squarer, add a mess tin, and at least cut down their rifles (the Sharps being shorter than typical rifle-muskets).

Thanks, too, Bob: you're undoubtedly right about the fatigue uniform. I've read the same thing in more than one source and painted my first USSS unit (in 20mm) this way years ago. Yet we have reputable artists like Keith Rocco and Don Troiani showing them in their full green rig in the field, and Philip Katcher (in the Osprey Elite 'Sharpshooters of the American Civil War') talks about their efforts to maintain their green uniforms through 1864. Both Rocco and the illustrator in the Katcher book depict them in green at Gettysburg. In the face of conflicting evidence, I'll stick with the more romantic option for the wargame table.