New Zorro Personalities

[workerBee]

A priest?  Oh definitely sculpt a priest!  

And a few mission Indians!     Plus Seri, Yaqui, Pima, Mescalero Apaches, maybe even Luiseño!   

Oh wait, who would know the differences...okay, "mission" and "independent" Indians.   

I need overtime.   

[Malamute]

"...Then we will be starting on the mexican army..."      


I guess I need some "other manufacturer's" Spanish/Mexican Army figures to compare sizes.  Even alternate reality patrols/garrisons need lots of individual sculpts.  Unless you plan about 20 different figures/poses?  Are you planning that many poses?  I can only wish!   

I need to compare my Artisan banditos to your Presidials when I get back to the house.

The figures are perfectly matched with Artizan so you should be ok there. I am intending to use Artizan Mexican infantry until I get mine going.

The Mexican army will comprise two packs of marching troops with command. Two packs of charging/skirmishing figures and two packs of Cazadores.
 I am also intending to do regular Mexican cavalry both dismounted and mounted.(The chaps in red jackets and crested helmets).
There will also be some artillerymen and a tax collectors set for Zorro to rob

[Lowtardog]

I had a look at the Artizan figures and they seem to be a range that just stopped mid production? was that through a lack of interest or sales?

Would the Perry (I know a  little smaller) Carlist Wars figures be usable at all?

See Malamute you have me planning now

[Malamute]

I had a look at the Artizan figures and they seem to be a range that just stopped mid production? was that through a lack of interest or sales?

Would the Perry (I know a  little smaller) Carlist Wars figures be usable at all?

See Malamute you have me planning now

Yep I think that Artizan didnt see enough sales from what they produced.
( A niggle of mine is some of the Artizan Mexican infantry are equipped with the wrong sort of musket).

Historically they were armed with surplus British equipment; Brown Bess muskets, Baker rifles for the Cazadores and Paget carbines for some of the cavalry. The uniforms were however  styled along French Napoleonic design.( Sanat Anna self proclaimed himself the Napoleon of the West!)

So unfortunately the Carlist wars figures are not accurate for Mexico.

 Don't worry I wll produce enough variants for you to field an 1830s Mexican army if you so desire. As long a folks keep buying them I will produce them.

[Lowtardog]

Yep I think that Artizan didnt see enough sales from what they produced.
( A niggle of mine is some of the Artizan Mexican infantry are equipped with the wrong sort of musket).

Historically they were armed with surplus British equipment; Brown Bess muskets, Baker rifles for the Cazadores and Paget carbines for some of the cavalry. The uniforms were however  styled along French Napoleonic design.( Sanat Anna self proclaimed himself the Napoleon of the West!)

So unfortunately the Carlist wars figures are not accurate for Mexico.

 Don't worry I wll produce enough variants for you to field an 1830s Mexican army if you so desire. As long a folks keep buying them I will produce them.

I think I would go for your figures, there is something just not quite right about the shakos on the Artizan figures is it the bands around them being too large or pronounced and they seem rather straight?

[Plynkes]

I found myself watching the Billy Bob/Jason Patric Alamo film last night, thanks to you buggers. It really is rather good, isn't it. Nowadays I find it speaks to me much more than the John Wayne epic that I grew up with, which would have me playing "Alamo" for days each time it was on the telly.

Billy Bob's Crockett is my favourite, too. He's not the cardboard cutout mythic figure, but all too human, and sometimes quite a frightened man who feels he must live up to his reputation. The Alamo defenders have been so mythologised that it is all too easy to see them as accepting and embracing martyrdom almost with enthusiasm. I'm sure the real folks weren't at all keen on dying just to be heroes, and you get that sense from this version, perhaps more than other depictions.

Dennis Quaid's Sam Houston* is a bit annoying, though. Unusual that I felt that, as I usually like him, and thought his Doc Holiday was pretty good.

But you are not getting me into gaming this. I might buy the odd character figure for the fun of painting it, but you are not getting me into this! Stop it!



*Funnily enough, Dennis Quaid was born in Houston.

[Malamute]

But you are not getting me into gaming this. I might buy the odd character figure for the fun of painting it, but you are not getting me into this! Stop it!

Would you like me to send you a pricelist

[Drunkendwarf]

Would you like me to send you a pricelist

Could you PM me a pricelist also? I seemed to have missed how and where to order your miniatures.

DJ