"More Mexican Revolution minis from Pulp Figures" Topic

I just wanted to draw everyone's attention to Pulp Figures announcement concerning an up coming release of Federales sets for the Mexican Revolution. I thought Henry Martini and others who game this period might be interested in these new figures. I have a lot of Pulp Figures and find them to be some of the best miniatures on the market. They have a lot of character and I look forward to seeing what the new Federales look like.

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I saw these figures at a Adepticon. I wish I'd taken pictures,they're gorgeous figures,looking forward to purchasing them.

Bobgnar,

How many different sets of Federales are Pulp Figures producing? Are there special weapons or command sets? Like I said above, I have always thought that Pulp Figures produces some of the best figures out there. And I really like painting up figures from this period.

Kevin

Thanks for the thought Kevin, but I have all the Federales(OG) anyone could ever need, so they would have to have offer something unique or special to cause me to make a purchase. I did find a photo online of the greens for this pack, and for me there are problems with the figures:

1. Whilst four the five figures are correctly depicted with Mausers, one is armed with a Winchester. For commonsense logistical reasons federal regular units were equipped with one type of rifle, and it was almost invariably a Mauser variant (the '95' carbine for cavalry), or an equivalent bolt-action rifle. There is a photo in the Osprey book of an artillery unit armed with Winchesters, suggesting that Mausers were in short supply due to Huerta's rapid expansion of the army from 1913, but I've never seen photographic evidence of regular infantry with Winchesters, and it wouldn't have made any tactical sense to issue them with this weapon. It wouldn't have presented any problems for the artillerymen; their personal weapons were only needed for emergency self-defence – but infantry would have been at a serious combat disadvantage in terms of range, and because of the lack of bayonets.

2. It looks like a couple of the poses have the wrong type of ammo bandolier for the Mauser: single-bullet loop-belts rather than pouch-bandoliers.

3. The right-most pose appears to be engaging a low-flying aircraft.

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