15mm Gentlemen in top hats?

[gloriousbattle]

Or similar?  I have a reasonable collection of 15mm adventurers, but the only ones of the "gentleman" class I have are either big game hunters, military officers, or white guys who got raised by walruses or marmosets or something out in the jungle.  I'd like some useless upper class English dilettantes, of the type who would engage in the following exchange:

"I say, isn't breaking and entering against the law?"
"Don't be absurd.  We're gentlemen."
-Forgotten Futures

Any help?

[Fjodin]

Irregular Miniatures(4 types gentlemans and 1 sir harry):


Some of Minifigs (Wild West range)




Blue Moon Manufacturing Wild West range. Not really gentlemans, but some figs can be used for victorian Europe.

[Smokeyrone]

Also   the civilians in the Old Glory Boxer Rebellion "Sea Battalion/Bersagliari/Civilian" pack.

Lancashire's Civilans for their Colonial Range (Boxer rebellion)

Can these Gentlemen be armed?   

I hate that I have to ask, (BUT I DO), do you want "Big 15mms" or "Small 15mms"     

Peter Pig has lots of useable civilians (In ACW, Pirate, Old West and other ranges), but they are the smallest end of the spectrum, and would not look cricket next to Old Glory, and Lancashire/Blue Moon (the largest end of the 15mm spectrum)

I have a huge order of QRF on the way, where I orderd civilians from just about every period they have, that will work for Colonial and Old Mexico.    They are on the smaller side, but near the middle enough to be OK with Old Glory, and what I call the Dead Center of the 15mm spectrum, Essex.

[gloriousbattle]

Can these Gentlemen be armed?

  Some definitely should.

I hate that I have to ask, (BUT I DO), do you want "Big 15mms" or "Small 15mms"     

Since human beings come in different sizes, I never mind if minis do too, especially  if the are pcs.  What do you suggest?

[P_Clapham]

The larger 15mm figures, how well do they stack up against the 1:72 scale?

[gloriousbattle]

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Blue Moon Manufacturing Wild West range. Not really gentlemans, but some figs can be used for victorian Europe.

Thanks for these, but they look... somehow... kinda "Wild Westy"?  Nothing wrong with that, of course, and it makes me want to play some Deadlands, but not quite what I was going for.

Still, thanks!

[Fjodin]

I hate that I have to ask, (BUT I DO), do you want "Big 15mms" or "Small 15mms"     

My 15mm collection have bouth small and big 15mm

[rob_the_robgoblin]

Use wild west minis and use some green stuff to make the hats bigger.
Add the odd length of wire here for canes and there you go! 

[Smokeyrone]

P Clapman,  larger 15's don't stack up at all with 20s.     

(at least none that I've seen.  The biggest 15s, even some Lancashires coming in at 19mm tall (    )  look way off the average 20mm plastic (Waterloo 1815, Zvevda, Esci, et al, average 23-25mm tall, and it ain't just a matter of height)


Fjodin,

I use a bunch of Peter Pig civilians too, but they are tiny, right beside Old Glory.  (I based them on two #8 washers,  my regular troops   are on single #10 washers, and that helps greatly)

So, if size doesn't matter, you are in bizness!

1:   Have some fun going through the QRF library (  useful, "   Colonial period look" chaps ALL through their lines).    I suggest starting with Wars of Mexico, Pony Wars, ACW, but  look at all ranges as I found some Irish and more, in the ECW and other earlier periods)

That got me @ 10 packs of civies 

2: Peter Pig:  Pirate Range (armed/unarmed pirates and mob, women,  Old West  (armed/unarmed Townsfolk, women, Town Drunks

3: Lancashire-  Colonial Boxer range (armed and unarmed civilians)

4:  Old Glory-  Boxer Rebellion (Sea Battalion/Bersagliari/Civlians, you get 13 nicely dressed citizens, most with firearms)

5.  I think the Warrior/Gallia range has civilans for Colonial as well

[Fjodin]

Use wild west minis and use some green stuff to make the hats bigger.
Add the odd length of wire here for canes and there you go! 

PLEASE tell me what is Green Stuff?!!!!!

[Plynkes]

It is a modelling putty that has is pretty useful. You can sculpt with it, anything from alterations to existing figures, extra equipment or items for conversions, right up to whole figures.


Comes in a blue and yellow strip. Mix the blue and yellow together and you get 'green stuff' which will eventually set hard.

[Fjodin]

How Hard?

[gloriousbattle]

How Hard?

Almost as hard as hard plastic.  You can mark set green stuff with your fingernail, but you have to use a lot of pressure.  Many people use this to sculpt minis.

[Fjodin]

Thanx!