"Outpost highwaymen size comparison" Topic

I was frustrated that I couldn't find a size comparison picture for OWS' highwaymen, so I put together one of my own. Hope it's useful!

With associated blog post here: link

Now that is strange !

My Outpost smugglers are a little bit less 'bulky' than Foundry and a tiny bit shorter.

My Blue Moon highwaymen are roughly the same size as some Foundry figures but taller than others.

Until I saw this and checked mine I hadn't realised how much variety in size there is within the Foundry range.

Until I saw this and checked mine I hadn't realised how much variety in size there is within the Foundry range.

A while back, I ditched some of my Foundry wild west minis. I loved the sculpts, loads of character, but they looked like children next to every other 28's I had.

Thank you, Manatic, I was considering adding to my OWS guys, this is quite helpful.

I have quite a few different manufacturers together for skirmish games and don't really find them different enough to bother me. 28mm is a relatively new scale for me and I'm finding it hard going spending as much time painting a single figure in 28mm as I'd do a whole unit in 6mm.

I don't know … what's a millimeter at that scale, something like 2 inches in real life, right?

Seeing as how there is such a variety of height in the actual human population (even with men of the same ethnicity), I think mixing all of them together works in your favor, if what you're looking for is a more realistic-looking crew.

Plus pirates mixed so many ethnicities that the height differences must have been rather pronounced.

Dan
PS. I googled pirates reenactment and these are some of the images that popped up:

Thanks for the comparisons. Now if Outpost would just join the 21st century and update their method of ordering and be like every other manufacturer in the world.

Cacique Caribe: I love that you used correct images for the topic!

Were you hoping for something different? :)

Dan

Thanks for the comments! The Foundry minis tend to be a bit on the small side, but it doesn't really bother me – although I've added extra height to some Marlburians. I'm not a stickler when it comes to size. I think if you go for uniform basing, it ties minis together well regardless of small size differences. For example the photo below features miniatures from four different manufacturers and I think they work well together despite varying sizes.

I have about 300 foundry and glory Pirates so I really don't need anything else to go with them :-)

I was under the impression that they were generally waist-length or shorter, but if historically accurate, the sailors' coats worn by the two re-enactor's second and third from right strongly suggest that unmodified ECW musketeers will work as buccaneers.

Further googling reveals that the garment known as a workman's or sailor's coat was in use amongst the labouring classes and seamen from 1640 to 1710! It appears that the coat worn by ECW soldiers wasn't a specifically military item; it was merely this style of garment produced in large batches of a single colour, incidentally often producing a uniform effect within individual regiments.

This information implies that ECW figures have a significantly extended tabletop life as buccaneers or militia in civilian clothes, with their coats painted in assorted drab colours. The main limiting factor is their musket: how late were Dutch-style muskets in use, or at least, how late is the wargamer prepared to tolerate their presence? They probably would have been encountered in some numbers into the 1660s, maybe even 1670s, but beyond that…?