They wouldn’t fit the sculpting aesthetic of that range I don’t think, which is a bit more heroic in general, although the newer Guard models are a bit more in proportion. Either way I’m not sure they’ll match up quite right, but each to their hobby!
They appear to be really great figures with varied poses and faces full of character! Thank you for doing this. Mold lines were also a source of irritation with the Prussian plastic figures. I think that shoulder arms are a somewhat strange option for this war. After the end of the American Civil War, does it feel outdated to have figures in such a pose? It doesn't seem to belong on a battlefield with breech-loading rifles, croup guns and machine guns.
I see what you mean, but armies were often trying to catch their doctrine up to account for new technologies (or not). In the ACW they were still using leftover Napoleonic tactics with industrialised warfare and more lethal weaponry, the French and Prussians/Germans would initially fight the First World War in uniforms that wouldn’t be out of place in 1870, so it goes.
You mean carrying rifles on the shoulder? Why is that strange? Those rifles are almost 2 meters long with a bayonet, there is no other way of carrying them around.
@@heinz8233 While on the march it is not strange, but on the battlefield it is. A more natural pose would be carrying the rifle at the trail. Soldiers were fighting in more of an open order than previously, and for good reasons. Furthermore the bayonet would normally only be attached as they closed with the enemy or were preparing to receive an assault.
@@raftai665 I mean, except when running before engaging or the actual moment of fighting I can see carrying the 1,5-2m rifle to the shoulder as being much preferable to any other way. The kit represents infantry advancing after all. But maybe you are right, I am not nearly knowledgeable enough about such small scale details on infantry tactics during the franco prussian war to be honest. I am sure that extensive research went into this kit though.
