| Robert Burke | 11 Nov 2011 12:13 a.m. PST |
Do any companies make 28mm Union Marines and Sailors? |
| vojvoda | 11 Nov 2011 3:23 a.m. PST |
Gosh there are so many on Marines but not much on Sailors. Did you do a search on TMP? I know we talked about it about two months ago. If I have time today I will look on TMP. I am pretty good at TMP research.
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| floating white bear | 11 Nov 2011 5:47 a.m. PST |
Redoubt has sailors. Not sure if "marines" were significantly dressed differently than regular union to pass on a games table. (In 15s I have Minifig ACW marines in full dress and shako, but I doubt they ever went ashore in anger dressed like that.) In many of the period naval related pictures, the guys in kepis may be marines. Rob. |
| Dn Jackson | 11 Nov 2011 7:56 a.m. PST |
The US Marines wear a frock coat that is slightly longer than the infantry coat. They wear a kepi. The major difference is that they use a baldric for their bayonets rather than a belt mount. However, there were times they wore them on their belts. So an infantry figure in frock with kepi, and white painted belts will work. White pants in summer/tropical climes and sky blue in the winter. |
IronDuke596  | 11 Nov 2011 8:25 a.m. PST |
28mm: (Sorry I forgot you were interested in ACW the following are meant for War of 1812/Napoleonic) Redoubt has individual sailors and marines including a package with a long boat with sailors (rowers too), marines, cannon and officers. Brigade Games has four sets of naval landing parties including a command group. Old Glory has a bags of 30 marines and 30 sailors as a boarding party (RN and USN) plus row boats and gun boats. Foundry has naval landing parties and marines (expensive though). |
| Campaigner1 | 11 Nov 2011 10:09 a.m. PST |
DN Jackson nailed it on the marine uniform. A federal soldier miniature in Frock coat with belts painted white is pretty close. Painting the trousers white completes the summer campaign dress. Only thing to watch out for as DN said is the kepi(lower, stiffer cap) vs. the taller, fall-over forage cap. |
| 11th ACR | 11 Nov 2011 11:38 a.m. PST |
United States Marines 1861-1865
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| madmick | 11 Nov 2011 1:19 p.m. PST |
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| Robert Burke | 11 Nov 2011 5:09 p.m. PST |
The only Foundry landing party I could find on their website was a British Royal Navy one. Are you sure they have an ACW landing party with marines and sailors? If so, can you send me the link? Thanks. |
| FireZouave | 11 Nov 2011 10:10 p.m. PST |
I have seen period pics of Marines wearing sack coats with white cross belts and white pants, so you don't necessarily have to have them in frock coats. |
| mosby65 | 14 Nov 2011 10:11 a.m. PST |
The British miniature manufacturer Redoubt makes 28mm metal American Civil War sailor wargame figures. |
| firstvarty1979 | 24 Jan 2013 4:56 p.m. PST |
So who makes the best Best 25/28mm ACW Sailors & Marines? I know that there aren't actually even many producers of these kinds of figures "out there", but I would like to hear what people have to say about them. I think the ones produced by Redoubt are pretty good, but they don't seem to be available through a U.S. distributor and the shipping costs from the UK are insane. 1st Corpslink Redoubt link |
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