"Napoleonic Civilians from Front Rank" Topic

Just got this in my inbox:

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Miss Bennett and Mr Darcy now available for Napoleonic gamers!

Nice looking figures. Will have to include some in my next FR order.

Nice! This is an under served area.

I've also seen this figures.

They look great.

Tony

These look great. I wish I had them for my Pride and Prejudice and Zombies game this year.

Eureka also makes some civilians for this era:

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They aren't available on the Eureka Website but if you email Nic, he will provide them.

These are great. I hope they follow up with some rural/peasant types.

Need civilians for the Spanish Ulcer!

I would love some Front Rank Spanish civilians as well. And – some female guerrillas to go alongside the great selection of male fighters that FR offers.

Well I have long waited for civilians. Can't see the two ladies gracing the Duchess of Richmond's Ball mind you………..but welcome nonetheless.

Eureka do many an early French Revolutionary figure, plus 18th C, but, indeed,the catalogue shows nothing for early 19th C.

There are the French savants from Brigade games

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but generally such figures are a rarity.

For the Peninsula, the Carlist War figures from Perry are ideal……….as guerrillas.

Peasants, especially German/Central European would be very welcome.

Also the tough as nails and less-than-fashion conscious soldiers' wives trailing behind the British army.

Alas, for Mr.Darcy, we'll have to wait until someone does Gentleman in Wet Shirt.

More variety in the headgear would have been nice: Not everyone wore oversized top hats.

Yes, I have to say slightly disappointed. These are good…OK they are great…but a bit repetitive!

and, as always, a bit short in the leg? They are back to the old Front Rank Hobbit style

Yes, I have to say slightly disappointed. These are good…OK they are great…but a bit repetitive!

and, as always, a bit short in the leg? They are back to the old Front Rank Hobbit style.

They can do it. Their Reinforcement Packs are much better proportioned. Why this regression?

All they need is few mms in the leg length to transform them. The castings are superb (better than you know who even…….but not the anatomy)

Woops…I got a bit repetitive as well! A couple of smartly turned escorts of the fair sex, for the chaps in full dress, would be marvellous…..a ball gown or palace dress? What about an Empress or two?

I really was hoping for a better rollout from Front Rank. I am not impressed at all by the offering. They can do better. Too much high style and not what the average Napoleonic civilian wore. Unless they had money.

I do know what you mean. This is day wear. But I wanted the top of the heap…those that attended the D o R's Ball, or anything in Paris 1806-1815…female!. We do get that for 18th C.

The trouble is that these modelling folk have to make a living. If you do Lady de Lancey, I might buy a single figure (of course I would) but not 20 of them.

Most folk who buy 28mm figs are wargamers. They are the sort who throw dice for fun and claim to support Man City or Chelsea, but forget the days when they were third tier clubs (seriously, they were).

Where was I? Oh yes. What is popular, what everyone will sell. So we will have hundreds of French chaps in those Barbour coats, holding their musketry in what seems totally uncomfortable poses…nothing else.

No one will buy several figures of the very best cast civilians, even though there are some wonderful images from that era. I do not just mean the lass with one breast bared mounting the barricade and waving the tricolour….she was a decade and a half later….fine strapping lass though…….

All

Front Rank have some civilians in some of their other ranges which could be used for Napoleonics – Spanish Civil War range for example

J

Ferg981…. think you mean Perry. Front Rank does not do 28mm Spanish CW that I know of.