After many years of not paying much attention to miniatures (toy soldiers) I have been very surprised at the hard plastic troops available from Victrix, Perry & Warlord. I've bought boxes of all three and they seem to be interchangable as far as size goes. The new Warlord Prussians are ok but I would have like some more variety in their poses (3 marching figures repeated 9 times). As I mentioned in my previous post, I'm basing regiments in 6 stands of 6 figures , 36 total. The 30 man Prussian unit is 6 short if I wanted the Landwehr to be the same size as the British & French (or more if I go with the larger Prussian size relative to the other nations). I like the look of the Calpe figures (fantastic sculpts and historically spot-on) so will be filling out the units with metals.
The fourth plastic company, HaT, produce Nap French and others in 28mm but I have no experience with them. The Voltiguer box I've seen are too early for my 100 days units. Feedback on TMP is split over the HaT figures with the only common ground being that the sculpts are of a different style to the other three (Victrix, Perry, Warlord)
In the meantime I've finished my first box of Victrix British Artillery. I'm only using 3 of the 5 figures per gun as the remainder will be added to the base of the limber and horse team when available.
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