ACW soldiers to put steam wings on.

[mysteriousbill]

I recently picked up a dozen steam powered wing sets to make a group of miniatures into flying men. The problem is that for the flying version I need a rather specific miniature.

The figure needs to be 25/28mm. Legs together, like they are at attention. Sword and\or pistol only. And with a matching one for ground use. I plan on removing the base so plastic would be nice but not necessary.

[Whtknt1066]

Can't help with your figure search, sorry, but would you care to tell us where you got your steam wings from? They sound interesting...

[Froggy the Great]

Try the Perry plastic ACW soldiers box.  That's what I used for my Captain Jonathan High and his Rocketeers.

[mysteriousbill]

Bought them second hand from someone on this site. Don't know who makes them.

[mysteriousbill]

Froggy how about some pictures so I can see how yours turned out?

[former user]

how about these?

[Froggy the Great]

Froggy how about some pictures so I can see how yours turned out?

here you go...

[The_Beast]

Sorry to pipe in, but consider getting them 'running' instead.

Flyer might have one knee pulled up with one straight; think Superman. 

I have some Bird Men of Catrazza waiting me talking someone into painting them up. I think the pose is supposed to indicate 'bicycling' the wings, but feels like he's leaping into the air, and, on the ground, I think he'll be fine as running.

Leaning forward, head swiveled back, works for either flying or running, no?

Doug

[mysteriousbill]

Interesting. But the head looking up will take a bit of modeling.

Anybody just sell plastic officers?

[mysteriousbill]

The wings were made by Last Stand convertibles

[pinny]

Interesting. But the head looking up will take a bit of modeling.

Anybody just sell plastic officers?

Perry Bros sell just the officer sprues from their plastic box sets, you get the officer and drummer/flag bearer (confederate and zouave for sure) on the website, 1 pound each

[gamer Mac]

You don't really need ones standing straight
I built these



From this thread
  http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=13752.msg167110#msg167110

[mysteriousbill]

Nice,  but I plan to us them, plus some ex-Dwarf now CSA and USN gyrocopters and ornithopters, a ships and a catamaran zeppelin to fight an air/sea battle with different altitudes. I've got 12 sets of wings, one set of wings of another kind, four ornithopters, a gyrocopter, the ships, and the parts for the zeppelin. Only one ornithopter is ready to go, the rest all need work, but before I start I want to be sure I have everything I need.

Yes I know, that's a lot of work and I'll probably never get it done. But still it is a neat idea.

[Blodwin]

Sounds a very interesting project - pictures of progress please

[mysteriousbill]

Don't hold your breath, I'm still gathering parts. I guess I can show you the parts.