"Coaches - 25/28mm" Topic

I know there are a few different Concord coaches available, but does anyone make any lighter passenger vehicles ? I could use a mud wagon for civilian use, and one of the 'ambulances' that seem to have been widely used by the army. I presume the latter is a Rucker or similar set up for seats rather than litters ?

Blue moon has a few
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I'll second Blue Moon, they have around 30 different wagons, including a prison wagon, ambulance, and supply wagonsof various types.

Dixon has a whole variety of buckboards and wagons…

Google "pencil sharpeners".
There are some strange things out there, including "true 25mm" Conestoga wagons, buckboards, and so on.
They are dirt cheap, too.

Oh, and to answer the OP, my stagecoach is a pencil sharpener…

My 18th/17th C Cinderella coach is a wedding favor from Michael's craft store. It is an Honest to God 28mm coach, with horses. You get 6 for $10, in a clear plastic. The top is even hinged, so you can put the obese squire and his "niece" inside.

I've never found a mud wagon yet.

Blue Moon is the place to look though. Maybe one of their other wagons could be converted. The prison wagon would be a good start IIRC.

Bob

Eureka does a hansom cab

Were they used in the West?

Old Glory also has a couple of suitable items in the Plains War (I think) range. There is a doctor's buggy for one IIRC.

Try these:
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John the OFM – do you have any pics of one of these painted with a 25/28mm fogure for comparison?

In answer to my point about Hansom Cabs

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And also:

[Buffalo Bill took his famed Wild West Show to England in 1887 and experienced his first ride in a hansom cab. It is strange that he had never met with a hansom before, as they were quite common in New York and other large American cities.]
"I was now, for the first time, introduced in its own habitat to that world-famed vehicle, the London hansom cab. In one of them I was whirled through the West End, past the famous Hyde Park, through Piccadilly, around Leicester and Trafalgar squares, to that central resort and theatrical hub of this vast community, the Strand. This narrow street, in its relation to the great city, reminded me of one of the contracted passes in the "Rockies," to which traffic had been naturally attracted, and usage had made a necessity. The density of its foot traffic, the thronging herd of omnibuses, the twisting, wriggling, shouting, whip-cracking cabbies, seemed like Broadway squeezed narrower, and I realized at once the utility and necessity of the two-wheeled curio in which I was whirled through the bewildering mingle of Strand traffic. With but one or two hub-bumps we were soon landed at the magnificent hotel Metropole, in Northumberland avenue, where I met many American gentlemen from different cities, who recognized me on sight and gave me hearty greeting."

Cody, William F. The Life and Adventures of Buffalo Bill (Chicago: Stanton & Van Vliet Co., 1917).

Looks like they were in the major cities, no mention in the 'wild west' Anyone know different?

John the OFM – do you have any pics of one of these painted with a 25/28mm fogure for comparison?

Sorry. I am lousy wih a camera, and don't have a website.
The pencikl sharpeners are largely "box scale".
However, the larger stagecoach can be called "true 25mm".