"Match for Museum miniatures" Topic

I picked up some museum miniatures in their January sale. Very nice figures. I was wondering what other figures match with them.
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That's odd, I was just about to ask the same question!!

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Freddy326

the infantry are tall.. i mix with essex and old glory no problem at all . I like the donnington minis as well , but these are a bit taller again .

Great minds and all that!!

I would think Old Glory would be fine. I usually don't mix on the same stand unless a close match. I don't agree with Essex being a good match on the same stand BTW.

I've just found this information in another tmp message from 3 years ago.

'Museum – Reasonably complete range (I would like to see a few more figures added), good sculpts, mix well with Old Glory, Donnington, Irregular and some Essex and Freikorps15'

the full thread is here
TMP link

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Freddy326

Unless I see a picture, I will go with what I own. The Medievals are quite large on the Museum side and do not mix with Essex at all. Donnington are larger and I have not seen the New Generation or whatever they call them. Freikorps have different size figures depending on the period, I believe.

I own some Old Glory and they will mix well. In Museum I own Medievals, Mongols, Turks, Arabs, etc. NONE match up well with the same period of Essex in which I own the same type of figures.

So, if you can be more specific on what you bought, then maybe we can be more precise on our answers?

Many thanks. I'm talking about their ECW range and wouldn't be mixing different Manufacturers in the same unit.
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Well, everyone will have, and is entitled to, their own opinion. However, many of the makes mentioned can be mixed if done so judiciously. Here is a test shot, against a background of 4mm squares, of 2 ECW Highlanders each from (L to R) Museum, Freikorps, Old Glory 15, and Essex:

Then, for a different perspective, the sub-unit of shot below is from my late TYW French army and just this unit contains Museum, Donnington, Essex and Old Glory:

One trick with the Essex – Essex figures, if you compare them carefully side-by-side with other maker's, suffer from "short leg syndrome"; the actual torso's, arms, heads, weapons, etc. all mix fairly well. The solution – If you mix them in a random unit like this, slip a small shim of plastic between the figure and the movement stand. When you look at the unit from more than a foot away, all the figures look "equal" and with some "natural" variation. My opinion only of course, YMMV.

Bill
Sir William the Aged
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Many thanks Bill, that's very helpful.
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Andy

Tzen67

I have been using every manufacturer available for Irregular troops for years, It works fine. Just to clarify :- I am 6`3" and my gaming buddy is 5`1". In work we have a guy over 6`6" and another under 5`0" the taller one is over 3 times the weight of the other.

Brian Cohen says :- "You are all different"
The Crowd in unison :- "Yes! We are all different"
Guy at back :- "I`m not"

Just an excuse to get the funniest lines from a film ever into my post. Life of brian.

7Pilot: The blokes in my team at work vary between 5'4" and 6'7".

I did a "back of an envelope", and if you set 28mm at 5'10" (roughly the average, for us at least), then the little fellow is matched by a "true" 25mm mini, but the long fellow wants about a 32mm figure. You can do the same thing with 15mm I'm sure, and come up with a similarly broad spread.

A lot of people would say it's too big a range among minis on a table, certainly within single units, but it's a real range. And among units drawn from the general population without the 'benefit' of height restrictions etc as later armies had, it's something that would have been seen quite a lot.

And that's before you get to weight and width…

Varying heights and thicknesses is not the issue--equipment variations that matter more. One figure company that produces figures measuring on average 29mm from foot to eye may have muskets and cat ridge boxes, etc. that are huge as compared to another figure company that manufactures 26mm figures. While there certainly were variations in the size and thickness of weaponry during the period in question, some equipment caries far too greatly from company to company making mixing look off. I have gone as far as replacing weapons, etc. (as much as possible) so that they "conform" across figures lines.