ACW Gamer | 04 Nov 2014 11:59 a.m. PST |
What 28mm unique ACW figures or personalities would you like to see? Not so much this regiment or that but figures such as Reynolds at Gettysburg or Colonel Oates at Gettysburg, or maybe couriers? Under represented figures that you would actually buy? |
CharlesRollinsWare | 04 Nov 2014 12:30 p.m. PST |
I would like to see a Confederate cavalry figure (dismounted) armed with and firing, a Colt revolving carbine and a Confederate skirmisher firing a Colt revolving rifle. Both weapons were common in the western theater and I have documentation of them being carried by Confederate units in 1962-64. Further, since I have one I used reenacting, I'd like to scatter some into my miniature units that are modeled on that period. Mark |
Tom Reed | 04 Nov 2014 1:50 p.m. PST |
I'd love a figure of a young woman wearing a kepi and shell jacket, mounted and dismounted (sidesaddle), with a ribbon tied in her hair. |
Pan Marek | 04 Nov 2014 2:01 p.m. PST |
Tom- I think that one would be more appropriate to the Indian Wars ;-). |
ironicon | 04 Nov 2014 2:10 p.m. PST |
A figure smoking a pipe, waiting to go into battle. A fig. reading a letter from home. A fig. carrying a bunch of canteens. A fig. "riding the rail". A fig looking through his haversack. A fig. with his hat over his heart with his head bowed. |
John the Greater | 04 Nov 2014 2:28 p.m. PST |
I would settle for one or more figures with their feet in the proper position for firing. That said, a variety of staff officers, including couriers with dispatch bags would be nice. A few packs of dogs (specifically for the 34th Mass at New Market) would also be useful. |
skippy0001 | 04 Nov 2014 3:42 p.m. PST |
SGT. 'Angeleyes' A tall civilian wearing a poncho and a short Mexican carrying a case of dynamite on a stretcher. The same tall civilian lighting the fuse of a cannon with his cigar. Ironclad officers and crews. |
ACW Gamer | 04 Nov 2014 4:01 p.m. PST |
Skippy, You want naval crew men in 28mm? |
Rebelyell2006 | 04 Nov 2014 5:35 p.m. PST |
More variety of 28mm buglers. The only Zouave buglers I can find are Franco-Prussian War Zouaves, and those aren't 100% matches. Musicians other than drummers are woefully underrepresented. |
Disco Joe | 04 Nov 2014 6:05 p.m. PST |
Early war state figures advancing and a Gatling gun with crew. |
Scott MacPhee | 04 Nov 2014 7:47 p.m. PST |
I would love to see an infantryman running madly for the rear, throwing away equipment as he skedaddles. It would make a great marker for routed units. I would buy a couple dozen. I would also buy mounted couriers and any number of personality figures: an A.S. Johnston figure brandishing his share of the spoils at Shiloh, Rhodes, Beauregard, G.K. Warren, and so on. Gettysburg gets all the love from sculptors (I assume because gamers love the battle), but any number of western personalities are completely missing. |
TKindred | 04 Nov 2014 8:42 p.m. PST |
Here's some advice on Navy crewman. If you are looking for crews for ironclads & tinclads out west, the majority of the crews were volunteers from the army. ALL of them, initially, would be wearing their army uniforms. sack coats and forage caps with some hats sprinkled in, some shell jackets, etc. The Navy put out a request to the Army for volunteers for gunboat duty and the circulars were spread throughout the AoP. Likely within the western armies as well. The Navy gained more men than they needed and put them under regular Navy officers and some assorted Chiefs and Petty Officers for training. The problem which the Navy found out right quickly is that those Army regiments used the chance offered to rid themselves of many of their shirkers, malingerers and other rabble. Most performed well, but as noted in a letter from Moses Lakeman, Colonel of the 3rd Maine Infantry, the men he sent thought they'd be getting easy duty, and found it to be MUCH more arduous than serving in an infantry unit. They requested to be returned to the regiment, but Lakeman refused, citing that the lot (40) of them were lazy and unreliable and he was glad to be rid of them. Just a FYI bit of trivia, but army uniforms on western river vessels would be absolutely appropriate. |
TKindred | 04 Nov 2014 8:43 p.m. PST |
I'd like to see buglers for infantry and artillery units, so I can replace the drummers with them. |
Benvartok | 04 Nov 2014 10:03 p.m. PST |
John Wayne / William Holden etc from the Horse Soldiers plus that one armed Confederate officer leading the charge back into town! Ohh and the drunken/not drunken Irish Sargeant! |
jowady | 05 Nov 2014 1:03 a.m. PST |
Regular Union Infantry with Sharps and Spencer Rifles. Union Cavalry with Spencer carbines. Joseph Pierce and John Tommey, two Asian soldiers in the Army of the Potomac, I know that a photo of Joseph Pierce exists. I finally found a figure for Lincoln, now I'd like one for Davis. Better horses, I can't understand why a sculptor will render a terrific figure of a General and then put him on a bad sculpt of a horse. More animation in figures, especially artillery crews. |
avidgamer | 05 Nov 2014 5:02 a.m. PST |
Buglers fifers more and wider variety of artillerymen in Sack coats junior staff officers mounted & on foot |
Rdfraf | 05 Nov 2014 7:49 a.m. PST |
Regular Union Infantry with repeating rifles that are not Berdan's |
donlowry | 05 Nov 2014 9:28 a.m. PST |
Like to SEE any well sculpted figure. But BUY? Wrong scale. |
GoodOldRebel | 05 Nov 2014 4:40 p.m. PST |
# routing and surrendering figures. # infantry buglers # western personalities # mounted couriers, brigade/division command |
zippyfusenet | 05 Nov 2014 6:15 p.m. PST |
Foragers. Looters. Bummers. Dismounted, mounted and leading pack animals. Both sides. |
Lion in the Stars | 05 Nov 2014 7:31 p.m. PST |
I would love to see an infantryman running madly for the rear, throwing away equipment as he skedaddles. It would make a great marker for routed units. I would buy a couple dozen. That would make an excellent panicked/routed marker, though I'd like minis like that in 15mm. |
ScottWashburn | 05 Nov 2014 7:49 p.m. PST |
Engineers (Pontooniers?) working on a pontoon bridge. |
Disco Joe | 05 Nov 2014 7:53 p.m. PST |
Scott, doesn't Redoubt have what you are looking for? |
Fort Buttigieg | 05 Nov 2014 8:07 p.m. PST |
Would love to have a John Singleton Mosby figure – the Old Glory one's pose is just silly, looks like a circus rider! |
mashrewba | 06 Nov 2014 2:14 p.m. PST |
Good Lord I had absolutely no idea that there weren't enough ACW figs already!! |
donlowry | 06 Nov 2014 6:52 p.m. PST |
You can't SEE a Mosby figure -- he just blends into the background! |
XenaWP | 07 Nov 2014 5:57 a.m. PST |
Couriers/ADC's carrying messages (rather than just pointing) Artillery Crewed by General Staff – Brandy Station & Antietnam I think? Lone Snipers Hot Air Baloon OP Semaphore signallers Some of the other Brigadiers/Div Commanders – Barksdale, Gregg, Bee, Hill, Early, Shields, Hooker, Burnsides, Custer A Parson General & Staff poring over a map |
Clays Russians | 07 Nov 2014 7:58 a.m. PST |
Black refugees with babies bundles carts dogs etc, and a reb officer leading his company wielding a skillet (Stillness at Appomadax) |
TKindred | 07 Nov 2014 2:42 p.m. PST |
That officer was Howdy Martin of the 4th Texas Infantry. He carried that skillet throughout the war. JB Polley writes about him in his history of the Texas brigade, as does Harold Simpson in his "Lee's Grenadier Guards". |
Clays Russians | 08 Nov 2014 10:04 a.m. PST |
Somebody make the man in 15mm!!! |
ACW Gamer | 08 Nov 2014 12:59 p.m. PST |
Rebel Yell, I spoke with Chris Hughes at Sash and Saber. He makes a 28mm ACW Zouave Bugler. He said to contact him if you would like to order buglers individually. chris@sashandsaber.com |
GoodOldRebel | 08 Nov 2014 3:51 p.m. PST |
would be nice to have the option to swap out drummers for buglers …if that's the way your research has taken you? |
ACW Gamer | 08 Nov 2014 8:43 p.m. PST |
I say talk to Chris at Sash and Saber. I have found him to be gamer friendly and he might be able to help you! |