REVIEW OF OLD GLORY SEMINOLES
These are several years old, but I'm just now getting around to painting them, and perhaps others will be interested.
I bought the two southern AWI scenario books for SHARP PRACTICE, and several scenarios feature Cherokees, including a number armed with "traditional weapons," i.e. knives and tomahawks. So I decided to get these done.
I had bought one bag of each in the Second Seminole War line; that included three bags of Indians or maroons. I didn't pay attention to what was in each bag, so what's below is a description of 90 figures from all three. And in truth, I can't see much if any difference among the figures, as regards Seminoles versus the black Maroons. All seem dressed pretty much the same.
The bag of "warriors attacking with hatchets and knives" has five each of six poses.
The other two bags total 60 miniatures in ten different poses. However, these are very unevenly divided: 16/60 are standing firing, and 8/16 each are standing loading with ramrod or kneeling firing. So 32/60 are in one of these three poses.
The other seven poses are kneeling ready (5) and kneeling loading (3), three poses advancing/running (3 each), and two poses standing ready (7 and 4).
There are twelve different heads, all with turbans, some with one feather or two. The differences among the heads are sometimes subtle.
ALMOST every figure can be a unique combination of body and head. Since there are no "uniforms," the few duplicates are not a problem.
The heads are easy to glue on; one does need to trim the "stick" neck that the head goes onto; otherwise the look is sometimes giraffe-like long necks.
My major criticism is that the figures are all too chunky around the middle. These are well-fed Indians! Part of it is that their tunics flare out; as all women know, that style makes your butt look big. But part of it is just Old Glory's sculpting style.
Nevertheless, these should paint up very nicely, and I look forward to playing with them.
gets his hands on some fields and fences.