"Spanish-American 25/28mm recommendations?" Topic

Giving some consideration to painting up a few dozen figures for a Spanish-American War skirmish game. Figures will be based individually and in 25/28mm scale.

I've taken a look at the Old Glory 25s link and really like the variety. Anyone had personal experience with this figures, and/or miniatures offered by other manufacturers?

Thanks,
Don

I have Old Glory figures, Spanish and USA. I like them, easy to work with and the detail is good. I also have a few HLBS figures(mule skinners and Colt MG teams), and those are nice as well.

The OG range is good, one of the best ranges they offer.

Old Glory's range is excellent. I recommend them.

Another satisfied OG person here. One of the privates in the US infantry pack is wearing glasses. I don't know why, or whether this is Significant, or if they just didn't want Teddy to be the only guy with glasses on the battlefield. Nice figures, though.

Grelber

Old Glory is the way to go. The match well with Copplestone and it is a full line with just about everything you will need.

It's a slippery slope. I started out with a handful of used figures and now there are several hundred of them.

Vince

Tiger Miniatures is the way to go (just having some fun with VCarter)…IIRC they have a more complete range than Old Glory, and have great detail and animation. And they are the old Honourable Lead Boiler Suit Company figures that Dances mentions. Can buy direct from Tiger or get them in the US from Recreational Conflicts.

Now having said that, the Old Glory are great (as mentioned), truly one of their better 258mm (the new way to type 25/28mm) ranges.

Taken as such. Tigers miniatures are an excellent choice. In general size they match Old Glory, however, find their pistol holsters and canteens appear oversized to my eye. Tiger is the more complete line of the two.

The Tiger figures are poorly sculpted in comparison to Old Glory; particularly their rifles (if you think this is harsh, it's nothing compared to the scouring they receive from some TMP commentators).

I had to go back to take another look at the Tiger figure.

I had not really noticed the rifles before. The pistol holsters are worse then I remembered (going from the belt to below the knee). They do have some very nice sets.

I am going to drop them from excellent choice to good.

If I were starting over, I would still go with Old Glory.

I would almost start doing this war just to buy the OG figs -as it is I will getting any suitable ones (of which there are a lot) for the Mexican Revolution. Super stuff.

Mshrewda,

Old Glory also does the Persing in Mexico range that may be a better fit for the Mexican Revolution.

A fair bit of the SAW range is right, or as close as it's currently possible to get, for the MR.

I've used US infantry and cavalry (for uniformed Villistas), a gatling gun (a head swap for a straw sombrero head on the gunner, and then the crew painted in civilian colours), dynamite guns and colt machine guns and their crews, and Cuban rebel infantry and cavalry. With head swaps where necessary, and the trimming of some equipment from crew figures, followed up with the right paint job, they work very well.

You can make later Constitutionalists by replacing Federal heads in caps with Woodbine heads in lemon squeezer or plain ANZAC hats. The US cast-off tunics they wore were virtually identical to the regulation Mexican garment, and this way you end up with figures with the right equipment and weapons.

With and without head swaps the Cubans can be absorbed into your revolutionary forces. I went the extra kilometre and converted most of the tunics depicted on them to peon shirts, but a pocketless pattern jacket was in use by the Federales as campaign wear in the early phase of the conflict, so you could leave a few as is. They can always be explained as wearing captured clothing.

And don't forget Boers; good as urban militia or mixed into revolutionary units, with and without head swaps.

Also, Federal guard and cadet units wore a pocketless tunic with Spanish-style pouch-belt equipment, so I bought a pack of Spanish regulars to convert with some of the Federal heads I had left over from the other head swaps.

Thanks VCarter -fear not -I'll be getting those as well!!!
Also thanks for the info Henry, looks like I could be heading for an overcrowded table.

I agree with those who recommend the Old Glory 25s figures. I located a photo of the various Spanish troops (not painted by me) that really show how nice these figures can look

Those Spaniards are mine!

Hi Jon, once again you've roped me into another historical period thanks to your fine painting skills!

Sorry I didn't acknowledge you, but I think I just located this photo through a random Google search.

- Don