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Title: Musketeer Miniatures Interwar armed civilians
Post by: scrivs on March 02, 2014, 06:23:59 PM

While waiting for my most recent Spanish Civil War  order from Empress I remembered that I had a handful of the lovely Musketeer Miniatures Interwar figures, a few each of the IRA and the VBCW civilians. I thought I could paint them up and use them to bulk out the Republican Militia.

However, they are really lovely figures to paint up but I don't think that they'll fit in with my Spanish Civil War collection, they are just too damned British don't you know.

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TRZURGwyb8M/UxN1GSKMzeI/AAAAAAAAHAo/LhYN8sNJo8Y/s1600/DSCF5017.JPG)

I reckon I'll probably end up selling these and getting some Empress ones.

More pictures and commentary on the Scrivsland Blog (http://scrivsland.blogspot.com/2014/03/musketeer-ira-and-armed-civilians.html)

Title: Re: Musketeer Miniatures Interwar armed civilians
Post by: Red Orc on March 02, 2014, 10:14:10 PM

Lots of Left Wing journalists from Hampstead who've gone to Spain and joined the Militia?

Hey, honestly, I'm planning on using a few of these guys (the three in the centre, actually) for militia in Russia. They'll look really out of place there! But I figure, urban dwellers look like urban dwellers in another country in the 20th century. There's a few that stand out - there's a guy with a dark beret/flat-cap and beige coat (which definitely says 1930s to me); if they were the other way round I think you (or rather, I) could get away with saying he was 1920s. The chap at the back looks like a Chicago gangster, but with a brown suit, tan hat with brown band, white shirt and black tie wouldn't look out of place I don't think. Though you have to question any guerilla who thinks a tie is appropriate.

Title: Re: Musketeer Miniatures Interwar armed civilians
Post by: flags_of_war on March 03, 2014, 01:17:24 PM

The beauty of these guys is that they can be used for many things and get away with it imo. I have a huge bunch of them to paint for my IWI stuff but will gladly use them for SCW.

Title: Re: Musketeer Miniatures Interwar armed civilians
Post by: SBRPearce on March 04, 2014, 02:03:11 PM

I love your muted color scheme in the paint-jobs - it feels very much like something out of the sepia-toned past like the 'color-flattening' process they used to shoot "Band of Brothers".