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Author Topic: Old West casualties in 1/35 (54mm) scale for diorama project?  (Read 1125 times)

Offline Legionnaire

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Old West casualties in 1/35 (54mm) scale for diorama project?
« on: August 28, 2022, 07:56:59 PM »
I've been away from the community for quite some time, but have gotten a new little project in my bonnet. I've started dabbling in 1/35 scale, I'm a very infrequent painter and modeller so more of a beginner. But now I'm trying to find a suitable casualty/ casualties for my idea. I might even get a crow or two, but struggling to find dead/ dying models in this scale. 25/ 28mm plenty of choices.

Anyone having some ideas/ pointers?





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Offline has.been

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Re: Old West casualties in 1/35 (54mm) scale for diorama project?
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2022, 05:39:13 AM »
What period?
Dependent on that you could look at picking up a 'bag'
of toy soldiers off e-bay. Lots of cutting up (arms, legs,
heads & bodies) some reassembling & green-stuff etc.
to fill the gaps.

Offline Thew2

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Re: Old West casualties in 1/35 (54mm) scale for diorama project?
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2022, 01:06:23 PM »
Irregular Miniatures do 54mm ACW casualty figures that might work.

Offline Metternich

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Re: Old West casualties in 1/35 (54mm) scale for diorama project?
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2022, 08:52:46 PM »
You could always take some cheap plastic figures (e.g. Tim Mee, MPC, Marx reproductions), cut them off their base (or use a mounted figure) and lie them down as casualty figures (subject of course to the appropriateness of the initial pose). Could be a relatively simple conversion.

Replicants does (do?) some wounded, dead figures.  Here are some Texas Rangers, including what appears to be a wounded man on his back, plus two dead horses.

  https://www.replastic.com/set/wild-west/texas-rangers-with-wounded-horses/

The Saloon Customers set has one drunk lying on the floor who certainly can pass for dead, as well as a sheriff who - though leaning against the piano - could easily assume a prone position and be a wounded figure.

 https://www.replastic.com/set/wild-west/saloon-customers/

Weston's Mexican Villagers Set includes two dead banditos, and the Apaches set includes one dead Apache:

  http://plasticsoldiers.co.uk/index.php/period/wild-west/

And Toy Soldiers of San Diego (TSSD) made a dismounted US Cavalry set that had a plethora of dead and wounded (must have been for the Custer fight, although supposedly in their Civil War range):

https://www.hobbybunker.com/userfiles/media/images/23312/large_tssd17a-1.jpg

 


 
 

Offline Legionnaire

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Re: Old West casualties in 1/35 (54mm) scale for diorama project?
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2022, 04:18:37 PM »
Thank you very much for your advice gentlemen.  I normally use 28mm so this scale is a whole new ballgame.

 

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