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Sunday, February 16, 2025

Eagle Games Colonial

Eagle Games Colonial 1/72nd scale figures.
These are ACW, American Civil War figures with horses from I think, Strelets.
A couple friends gave me some surplus 1/72nd scale horses, mostly Napoleonic era, without riders, and I am using them to make units using Eagle Games riders.  Eagle Games figure sets don't include horses, you have to buy them separately.  They are excellent horses, but only one pose.
Troops with cork helmets are colonial era.  I use them as Americans, they are rather generic.
Eagle Games horses have come in gray, black, and brown, but the gray have not been available for a long time.
Eagle Games artillery are the same in the two ACW sets and the Colonial set.  Carriage and barrel are one piece and then two separate wheels.
 

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2 comments:

Roger said...

I'm not sure about the accuracy and the authenticity, but this weekend I saw the Sergio Leone movie 'Duck you sucker - A Fistfull of Dynamite', and in the movie even Mexican troops can be seen with such helmets. Very generic as it can be used as British, French and German as well.

February 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Mike Bunkermeister Creek said...

Military uniforms follow fashion just like civilian clothing. When a powerful army uses a particular uniform it is often copied. There were US troops North and South dressed as French Zoaves in the Civil War. The pith helmet was used by police and military forces world wide for decades.

February 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM

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