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Title: Canadians?
Post by: Krysset80 on 10 October 2011, 03:27:26 PM

Was wondering if there are any 28mm Canadian figures, looked trew the sticky but it only had one link and they dont seem to make any now.

Title: Re: Canadians?
Post by: Calimero on 10 October 2011, 03:37:53 PM

They basically looked like British soldiers, no? Except for the early war when they were equipped with the Ross rifle…

Title: Re: Canadians?
Post by: benglish on 10 October 2011, 03:38:51 PM

WWI Canadians and Brits would be identical.  I think there were more buttons on the front of certain Canadian SD jackets (nine rather than seven), but otherwise the would be pretty much the same.

Title: Re: Canadians?
Post by: Krysset80 on 10 October 2011, 03:50:52 PM

Ah, thanks for the help :)

Title: Re: Canadians?
Post by: Krysset80 on 19 October 2011, 11:44:14 PM

Hm.. was looking trew some pictures in search for colors and seems to me the canadians looked more like the americans, could be wrong tho. With the standing collar etc could anyone be nice andclear this up for me? :)

Edit: looked a bit more and it seems they used both to add to the confusion :P

Title: Re: Canadians?
Post by: Johnnytodd on 20 October 2011, 01:54:18 AM

In addition to their own specific pattern uniform, the Canadians wore British uniforms but never American uniforms. Refer to this website:
  http://www.kaisersbunker.com/cef/tunics/

Title: Re: Canadians?
Post by: archangel1 on 20 October 2011, 07:41:13 PM

This any help?

http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/uniforms/uniform.htm

Title: Re: Canadians?
Post by: Krysset80 on 20 October 2011, 11:23:14 PM

Thanks for the help all :)

Title: Re: Canadians?
Post by: Jim French on 22 October 2011, 05:22:54 AM

In addition to the Ross Rifle, the Canadians also arrived in Britain with the US Marlin mg.  It looks sort of like the Colt 1895 gun.

Title: Re: Canadians?
Post by: Will Bailie on 22 October 2011, 07:47:59 AM

There is an Osprey on the Canadians in WWI that covers the uniforms and equipment.  As mentioned above, the first contingent had tunics with a standup collar and 7 buttons, and a closer fit than the 5-button, fall-down collar British tunic. They also had leather Oliver equipment in place of the British webgear.  Boots with cardboard soles that disintegrated in the mud of Flanders.  The disastrous Ross rifle, plus Colt 'potato digger' machine guns.  However, the Canadians replaced as much of their Canadian equipment as quickly as possible, so by summer 1915, they pretty much looked exactly like their British counterparts.  For my 28mm version of 2nd Ypres, I simply used British figures, and added the coloured epaulets (red for artillery, blue for infantry, green for rifles) to make them a bit distinct. 

The differences like standup vs falldown collar are going to be pretty difficult to see at arms length on a 28mm figure.  Unless you're a particularly ferocious rivet counter, I'd say probably more trouble than it's worth to use anything but British figures. 

Title: Re: Canadians?
Post by: Muskie on 23 November 2011, 02:36:11 AM

I bought that Osprey book and I got as far as doing some test miniatures for WW1 Canadians.  They used their own markings painted on to the shoulders and helmets that was the most distinctive thing besides buttons and some of the insignia but in 25-28mm scale those details don't show, there isn't even necessarily a nub to paint brass where a button should be.

http://musksminiatures.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/finished-ww1-canadian-corps-test-figure/ (http://musksminiatures.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/finished-ww1-canadian-corps-test-figure/)