"perry, warlord, victrix plastics" Topic

I am probably not doing a proper search function as I can swear I saw this discussion once before, but I am in the process of ordering some plastic kits for napoleonic skirmish play.

Are the plastic figures from victric, perry, and warlord of a similiar enough size in 28mm that they can be mixed in units? Will they look odd next to each other?

Thanks.

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I'm putting together a sample sprue of the Warlord offering. They have less bits than either Victrix or Perry so get built more quickly.

If I were doing mass armies I would consider Warlord over the others. For skirmish games perhaps much less so as they have less dynamic poses.

Sizewise they are fine.

Just to add to the discussion. They will all mix fine. I even have done several backpack and head swaps between the different minis. Victrix offer greater variety in poses (better for skirmishing) while the Perrys are the simplest (just add backpack). For painting, nothing beats the simplicity of the Warlord 1812-15 greatcoated infantry.

I thought the Perrys had separate arms!

I believe only the Perry British Boxed set come with seperate arms. The French box is a one piece miniature except for the backpack and the head I believe.

Vdal1812 is correct.

only the perry British and all Victrix have a variety of arm poses.

some of the warlord metals like the 95th rifles box probably have a decent variety of poses, but none of the plastics I've seen do.

Thanks for the info. This helps. I really like the Victrix resin character set they have… seems like it would work well for Sharp Practice Big Men.

Not much to choose between any of them . Perry and Victrix have the slight edge as regards detail but Warlord are OK. But the downside is Victrix will require the most work at the assembley stage.

Therefore the best "all rounder" IMO will be the Perry sets with Warlord and Victrix in joint second .

Size wise I think they are all OK together but best left in units of one manufacturer .

Do the Perry spare heads fit the Warlord bodies?

All

I can safely say after having constructed and painted hundreds of the s that all three manufacturers fit well together, and I have mixed them in the same units and once they are painted up you'd hardly notice the difference.

You can swap the heads between them, although some of the heads have collars on, some don't and you may need to cut the collars off or paint some new ones on.

Personally I find Victrix annoying to assemble, and their bayonets and muskets are weak and will break.

Conversely I've just dropped a load of assembled Warlord British on the floor and none of them are damaged. You only have to attach a head and a backpack too.

You won't be disappointed with any of the Perry Plastics.

Good luck and enjoy

F

I think it depends on how old the Victrix are as regards breaking muskets. I agree the early sets of British that I bought had this problem and was rather annoying .

However having just started collecting Austrians the muskets and bayonets in these sets are much more springy and less liable to break . I am assuming that they have changed the plastic at some time .

I agree that the early Victrix sets like the Imperial Guard and British were prone to breakage. In fact, my Old Guard have almost no bayonets because of it! But having said that, their newer sets are very good and the Middle Guard have NO, none, zero broken bayonets.

I too. have all three companies and I freely mix between them everything from arms to packs to heads. We've even gone so far as to swap torsos when I was making dismounted French cavaly for my retreat from Moscow games. They all work great together.

Lastly, in the Perry French box set, the Lights have separate arms, so that may be where you've heard that the French set was similar to the British.
Larry

I find the Perrys to be very nice but a little smaller than Victrix/Warlord, which work well together, although the latter have rather bigger feet.