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Crimean War Miniatures

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Postby Suetonius Paullinus » Fri Nov 05, 2010 4:46 pm

Hi, just a quickie: Are GWM's Crimeans compatible with Radetzky's??My wife, bless her cottons, in order to surpise me with a present (no doubt she wants something in return or she's broken something expensive..Confused) got me a British Crimean War Regiment.Unfortunately not Hicksy's masterpieces but GWM's version. They are nice enough but I obviously fancy Radetzky minis a lot and would like to mix...Good, bad, ugly?Thanks for any comment Cool Cheers S.P.
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Postby Morsleib » Sat Nov 06, 2010 5:43 am

On a different sort of compatibilty, how do British Crimean models compare with other British models of the same period? In other words can I use these models in other theaters of operation? I am particularly interested in India and South Africa from the late 1840s to the early 1860s.Terry
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Postby Cubster » Sat Nov 06, 2010 7:52 am

I think you'll run up against tropical uniforms for those theatres, which might make for slight incompatibility without conversion.The first image is Crimean, the second Indian Mutiny. Crimean Infantrymen Indian Mutiny
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Postby johnm » Thu Nov 25, 2010 6:54 pm

Any chance of a Flashman type figure? Wink
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Postby Simon Egan-Payne » Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:26 pm

@Morsleib: I'm not claiming to be an expert by any means but I think that you might be able to get away with the officers and the shako wearing infantry for South Africa but they'd have to be troops quite new to the country.  I've seen some contemporary illustrations of the battle (don't know if "battle" is quite the right word for it) at the Boomah Pass and it shows British regulars wearing Albert shakos but it seems that troops quite often seemed to strip things down to the barest minimum they could as soon as they could uniform-wise.  I'd say that forage caps with greenstuff covers added, wide brimmed straw hats and jackets with the lace removed would suit very nicely.  Given that the Dutch settlers on the cape were a very traditional society there's probably a reasonable amount of scope to use the Warlord metal hat sprues for conversions at a push, especially the knitted one which you could paint as straw. Sorry, I've just realised how self indulgent and rambling that post sounds Embarassed
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Postby fitterpete » Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:01 pm

I'd like to know how GW and Radetzky compair too.I have a mix of GW and Foundry ATM but am always looking for figures for another unit. I kind of like the Radetzky figures funny gait(drinking maybe?) makes them different from the stiff marching figures I have.Pete
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Re: Crimean War Miniatures

Postby geekmeter11 » Mon Jan 02, 2012 5:57 pm

Would there be much work converting these for use in the Sepoy Mutiny.
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Re: Crimean War Miniatures

Postby Paul @ Warlord Games » Mon Jan 02, 2012 6:09 pm

It's all a matter of personal taste but I don't think the GWM and our Crimean miniatures are at all compatible. GWM models are generally larger/chunky and a little caricatured in style.

That's not to decry the GW miniatures - just that I don't think they are at all mixable in the same army.
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Re: Crimean War Miniatures

Postby Suetonius Paullinus » Mon Jan 02, 2012 6:49 pm

And with those Light Brigade masterpieces by Hicksy in the pipeline I think I will make any further advances into the Crimean War with Warlord miniatures.. 8-)

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Re: Crimean War Miniatures

Postby geekmeter11 » Mon Jan 02, 2012 7:51 pm

I did not phrase my question properly.
Would there be much work in converting the Crimean War British Line Regiment to a regiment which fought in the Sepoy Mutiny?
That theater is interesting to me.
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