marc zijp wrote:Talking about casualties: are Napoleonic casualties, dead/wounded an option for Speira Miniatures? Got some metal ones (e.g.Art Miniaturen, difficult to get, most are out of production already), but room and the need for much more.
Don’t think any plastic manufacturer will ever produce such a set. I’m in this hobby for decades now, got a lot of patience but also the wisdom to know that most wargamers don’t want them (or at least not as much as diorama fans need them), so got to find other ways to get such figures.
While I still think I’m really not the only one with that wish!
One can start with the popular plastic ranges already produced and/or main countries/period (which is evidently late Napoleonic): French fusiliers, guard grenadiers, British/Scots. Perhaps later Russians, Prussians, Austrians. And of course infantry, that being the bulk of any army.
We do have such plans, one reason it's taking some time is my lack of knowledge of the Napoleonic period, should the french infantry casualty have the pre-bardine uniform or not? What should the shako look like for year 18xx and what equipment should a generic horse casualty have? Is a "generic Napoleonic casualty" possible? I have no idea what people want.
It's a lot more complex than doing casualties for the Civil War. So I/we would need lot of help in this area from people with more knowledge, if you or anyone else could come up with good suggestions and reference material what you would like to see in the casualty area, and more importantly what would you order in great numbers? I can't promise production would start soon, we have some new lines to launch first, but if we get some serious suggestions and source material it would speed things up.