"em4miniatures Union ACW in 28mm" Topic

A continuation from my consumer affairs post. I purchased three bags/60 minis total last week, and they arrived in the mail today. I noticed that the rifle barrels and bayonets tended to be bent. Is that something that can be fixed by applying warm/hot water and bending them back, since they are a soft plastic? There are some flash and ejector pin marks, nothing too severe, although it looked like they were trimmed from sprues before packaging.

In size comparison between a Perry plastic ACW and these, the em4miniatures are slightly taller. Foot-to-kepi Perry was 31mm, a nearly-similar pose of the em4miniatures was 34mm. Rifle lengths were 25mm for Perry, 27mm for em4miniatures. Bayonet lengths were 8mm for Perry, 6mm for em4miniatures. Details were somewhat softer on the em4miniatures. I think that they can be mixed in with Perry sized miniatures, but not too heavily mixed, since it makes sense for there to be some size variation amongst humans, particularly in terms of very tall men. For my Texas Unionists, I can see placing one or two of these miniatures amongst my heavily-Perry 4th Texas (Lone Star Loyalists), and the rest will form the 1st Texas (Hill Country Landwehr). They are fairly tall and thin in proportions compared to the Perry minis. The first bag that I opened had three poses: 4 standing at port arms; 4 marching at port arms; 6 standing with legs spread with rifle more parallel to the ground; and two officers, two drummers, and two standard bearers. The poses would work great for marching at port arms, or for skirmishing. Some of them had shoulder flaps.

Overall, 42 riflemen and 18 command minis, for $35 USD, isn't a bad deal. They aren't the best, but they will work. While I see expanding my 28mm ACW army beyond my Texas Unionist Brigade, I am uncertain if I will buy more of these since they are taller, or if I will mix in the spares with other regiments. And once I get over my current depressed funk I will paint them.

Thanks for the heads up.

As far as bending them back, with similar soft plastic models some individuals recommend boiling water, but others say that affects the models for the worse in the long term. I have been informed that a blow dryer will also soften some (but not all) soft plastics enough to bend them back into the original shapes without the alleged effects of water. The general consensus is to try several methods and see which works best.

As an OT aside, I really hope these are profitable for EM4, both because they're a great company (and I'd like to see them around for quite a while), but also because I would love to see them produce similar products for other eras and genres.

??? I tought EM4 miniatures wants 5£ for 20 figures? How can you compain or beat this. That is great value for money

But anyway i like EM4.

Greetings

I'm not familiar with this company, but a visit to their website showed some of their ACW figures being discussed here painted, and they looked rather good. But after searching, I couldn't find any information about whether or not these figures were make of a soft, flexible plastic or a harder plastic that could readily be converted and easily glued. Also, I was looking for an idea of what color the basic sprues were cast in, such as blue for Union and gray for Confederate. Any information would be helpful. Thank you.

They are a soft semi-flexible plastic, from a dark blue sprue. I have not tried painting or converting them yet. They remind a little me of the 1/72 scale Revell and Airfix miniatures in terms of flexibility, but slightly more rigid.

Thank you RebelYell. Your information is exactly what I was looking for.

Just ordered two packs of each, which the nice chap has told me are already in the post.
Can anyone recommend a suitable paint for butternut? Thanks in advance.

Foundry do a specific set, or you could pick a warm-ish brown from the Vallejo range. I will be using US Field Drab on some of the 15mm sitting on my painting table atm.

Thanks for the tip Inventedregiment, I will have a look at Foundry.

I've recently painted some:

And given them a review on my Blog: link

In the UK they are £5.00 GBP per pack, even with postage they work out super cheap. I wouldn't want an entire army of them but they'll make up a brigade or so to mix in with other troops…

seems to be a cheap and reasonable way to add bulk to a collection? sounds like a plan …i need at least a brigade of yanks to add some balance to my confederate-centric collection!