Sudan - Perry Vs. Copplestone

[Old Goat]

Morning,

Post Salute euphoria as I start to arse about with various purchases...

Bought roughly a regiment of Naval brigade, lovely figures as they are, I'm now wondering about chucking a few Sennet hats into the mix.

How do Copplestone Naval Brigade figures scale against the Perry ones?

Are they horrifically different in Scale?

Thanks, Goat.

[Captain Blood]

Yes. The Copplestone will tower over the Perry figures. Both lovely, but different sizes.

[Plynkes]

I hate to gainsay the good captain, but I hope he'll forgive me when I say that I fear on this occasion he is talking out of his hat.   I don't have any Perry Naval Brigade, so pardon me if I substitute a Perry Camel Corps officer instead. We shall just have to trust in the Perry brothers that the range are all the same scale as each other.



Now the Copplestone figures are generally bulkier than the Perry ones, and some of them are taller. But to say they will tower over them is a tiny bit of an exaggeration, I think.

[Captain Blood]

Okay, so I'm talking out of my hat. 
(Must be my memory playing tircks on me... I'm sure I've seen them side by side on a game (the Warlords Aeronef game at Salute a few years back?) and remember thinking the Copplestones dwarfed the Perrys, but I'm happy to be proved wrong.
 

[Arthur]

Okay, so I'm talking out of my hat. 

Given your impressive medieval output, I'd rather say you're talking out of your great helm, which is considerably more dignified 

When comparing Perry, and Copplestone, it's worth bearing in mind that the latter did fluctuate a great deal in size and suffered from a scale creep syndrome as Mark apparently experienced some eyesight problems at some point and increased the size of his figures to make the sculpting process easier for him. His earlier Darkest Africa stuff (which includes the sailors in Sennet hats) and BoB Russians and Chinese are not that big but his later Russian sailors are much larger, while the WW1/interwar brits in tropical helmets and shorts are positively gigantic.

 

[Plynkes]

What Arthur says is true (his WWI/interwar Brits are massive, you are right), but there is also something else going on here, and it is a little odd. The oddness is this: Perry figures aren't as small as we think they are. They somehow seem small, and in my mind I have them pigeonholed in the "small 28mm" category. But when you actually compare them with other figures they aren't that far below the average, height-wise.


I think there is actually more of a size discrepancy between Copplestone's work for Foundry and his own sailors than there is between his sailors and Perry figures...


But again it is more about bulkiness vs. puniness rather than actual height (though there is a small height difference). All of the above comparisons are within my tolerance range, but of course that is a subjective judgement each gamer needs to make for himself.

[former user]

it has also been my impression that the Perry miniatures are more naturally proportioned in the head/hand/feet department and thus appear smaller while they are not. Especially the naval soldiers go very well together as I remember employing units in the same brigade.

[Hu Rhu]

I have recently mixed Copplestone and Perry Naval Brigade Figures into the same unit and they have looked fine alongside each other.  I will post an example once I get it off the camera.

[Old Goat]

Brilliant.  Many Thanks...roll on pay day and a Copplestone order.

Appreciated.

Goat

[Timmo]

It's a real shame the Perrys don't offer some naval types in the sennet hat or the usual British helmet, that they did wear on occasion. It would only be a case of doing a head swap or a pack of heads so we could do the necessary surgery.