"1850s troopers for Victorian gold rush?" Topic

Does anyone have any ideas for figures of these ruffians?

Some descriptive text can be found here:
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And some pictures or reenactors can be found here:
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They need not be exact – buttons need not be counted, as they didn't count them themselves.

How about the New Zealand Wars range from Empress Miniatures?
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West wind horror or copplestone back from beyond

Foot Police at least look a lot like ACW Union troops, straight sided or sloped kepi, sack coat, straight cut trousers, Enfield rifled muskets, various revolvers for officers.

Mounted constables with swords & carbines of various types often in addition to revolvers or single shot pistols, wearing jhodpurs and long leather gaiters (like motorcyle police often do today).

Thanks all! There were some good suggestions in there.

Following your leads I found the Copplestone beat cops from the gangster line, which will be perfect after the smallest bit of filing.

I also found ACW guys in hats which will be various miners, bushrangers, squatters and other colonial scum.

Muerto,

Can I ask what you are working on? Are you doing Eureka?

Hi Unlucky General,

Eureka is one possibility, though it would take longer to play out on the table than it did in real life.

I'm looking mostly at skirmish actions, of which there were many that happened or almost happened. The St Kilda Rd robberies, Cornish and Irish miners fighting under Sturt St in Ballarat, miners' uprisings that weren't in Rushworth and other places, and even though it's a bit later, there is the Great Shearer's Strike.

Red coats are easy enough, as the 40th Regiment of Foot were more or less in Napoleonic uniforms.