"The Fat Reenactor - I need your input!" Topic

Cavalcade's 2011 promo cavalry figure will be a fat reenactor. I need your input! Scale will be 28mm and fat, but I need your comments as to period and any pics you might provide. In my mind, I was thinking about ACW Union cavalry, but I'm open to anything.

Details such as conspicuous wristwatches and cell phones are welcome!

Steve
Cavalcade Wargames
cavalcadewargames.com

I would offer the SS Tank Commander, slightly too 'round' to fit through the cupola of his tank.

put him on a tired horse

A Farb like that should also have modern eye glasses as well as tennis shoes and a boy scout scarf.

AS ever

Hairy

Most of the Cavalry guys I have seen, atleast the ones with horses, have not been too fat. Heavier than their 1800's counterparts, but not quite like todays gamer. I suggest you make him infantry. He needs wrist watch as well.

Since starting a company this year, one of my friends has been pestering me to make a model of one of our other rotund frineds as a naked pict. Now you are forcing me to consider it!

If you are going to do a fat Reenactor, why not do the one that set of the "fat" talk to begin with, the one from the movie Gettysburg. The confederate that stops the rider.

It's got to fit with the cavalry theme. We are Cavalcade, and all of our free figs will be a cavalry model, allowing you to have your own cavalcade (as if wargamers don't have enough cavalry regardless!).

Funniest 'farb' I ever saw was a guy pushing 350 lbs wearing a German paratrooper smock. Not a crease or wrinkle on it – the smock had become a skin-tight body suit on this poor guy

Ipod…

Don't forget the nickel plated revolver or the disposable camera. Or better yet Slim Jims sticking out of his pockets.

If you were to make it a British Civil Wars (ECW if you must !) then it should also be a female rider.

Since he has to be cavalry, put him on Don Quixote's horse, a real bony nag.
Put a plastic six pack cooler on the saddle, and a bag of potato chips.

I'd go with the Confederate from Gettysburg that Miniatureships suggested. Has to be a confederate, since we know they ate so well in real life.

I'd go for a Napoleonic 'light' infantry uniform. I've seen the real thing: heavy light infantry. Doctor Martin boots under the gaiters, oh and sunglasses.

Ramrods left in muskets I hear is a common danger.

Do the fat western samurai reenactor, complete with iPod, trainers, glasses, riding a shire horse backwards.

Or for ACW just do someone trying to be Lincoln but with massive head phones over his top hat and an optional beard.

Just Google "civil war cavalry reenactors" and you'll find plenty of examples, including a female.

For the love of god, will no-one think of the horses?

Allen

I am thinking of the horses.

Shetland pony, I suggest. Bandy legs and a desperate expression.

Give him a samurai sword, 'cause their so KEWL, and Tom Cruise used one in that movie…

(yes, I knew a guy at the Ren. Faire that carried a katana as a highland Scot…)

Recording the battle all around him on his iPhone.

You should see the size of some of the Black Watch Highlanders for French & Indian War reenactments. They are the true definition of Heavy Infantry. Alas, they do not ride horses.

I would copy the Confederate picket man from Gettysburg and put him on a mule for your model.

If you were to make it a British Civil Wars (ECW if you must !) then it should also be a female rider

If he did three three females and two males you could do a complete regiment.

I saw a Confederate cavalryman in a re-enactor film of Gettysburg. He was HUGE – poor horse.

I too vote for the Confederate cavalryman. For one thing, they look fatter because the uniform coat is a light color rather than dark blue.

Second, having been a cavalry reenactor (not fat – 5'10" 155 lbs), the Confederates were, taken as a whole, always more "farby" than the Union. There were some fine authentic CSA reenactors, but many used whatever they had or wanted to use. Their excuse was the Confederates did not have supplies enough for regulation issue.

So things like nylon halters, all civilian saddles and bridles,about 4 revolvers, no link strap, often no carbine, etc. You could also incorpoarate all of the other farby things listed above such as cell phones, wrist watches, etc.

Tom

Will there be a zombie version as well?

Are we talking about Sergeant Santa in Gettysburg?

Consensus seems to be fat conferate cav on a swaybacked hoss.
For your next figure may I respectfully suggest the following..

picture

eating a donut.

Speaking as a former fat reenactor all the suggestions sound right on the mark.

I was going to say an obese shirtless bearded dude in a kilt, combat boots, and a bascinet, with armor comsisting of a kidney belt, greaves, gorget, and vambraces, carring a center grip round shield and a basket hilted cudgel … could not get much more SCA than that. But then there's not much in the way of cavalry in the SCA (hard to fall off of a horse safely enough to satisfy insurance adjustors, and horses are expensive anyway), and the SCA isn't really all that much of "reenactment" anymore.

Doug

What about this guy
picture

You could always use these spry young fellers.
picture The gent on the left is my cousin and the fat feller to the right is yours truly! Salut y'all!

Bruce the Texas Grognard

He should be holding a New York style pretzel or a funnel cake.

Or a sub/po-boy/hero sandwich and a big 44 oz. slurpee. Salut y'all!

Bruce the Texas Grognard

The figure should also be using their iPhone to taking an urgent call from the partner to make sure they have picked up the shopping on the way home

How about tthe fat guy carrying the horse, like Obelix does on the cover of Asterix & Black Gold

As long as he has a 2 litre bottle of Mountain Dew instead of a water canteen, you should be fine.

"The Siege of Vicksburg could not have been broken without the assistance of Major Porkins and his assisted mobility scooter."

picture

picture

How about this rather portly chap?