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Rare/unique ACW poses

I know you probably have all poses sorted out and they will be great, but I feel that in most 1/72 sets som obvious poses are rarely depicted:

*Soldier searching cartridge box of dead, this must have happened on any ACW battlefield but never seen in plastic 1/72.
*Reloading, strangely enough there aren't that many good poses of reloading in many sets. In fact there should be a set dedicated to reloading only.
*Clubbing, bayonet deaths were rare, no matter what anyone says, I'd rather see more clubbing poses than violent bayonet stabbings. This was a "gentlemen's war", no need for the traditional poses of soldiers stabbing wounded on the ground and such, just didn't happen on that scale.
*Soldiers surrendering, I want some poses of Confederates with raised hands, and/or with their musket clubs up in the air. This has never been done, and would be great for us diorama builders.



I'm sure there are forum readers that have more ideas to share.

So please Strelets, give us some unique poses.

Re: Rare/unique ACW poses

I've always loved the little 2 figure vignette from ESCI of the French Imperial Guard,
of the man helping a wounded comrade. I think this would be very appropriate for the Civil War as well. See here, last figures bottom right:

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=420

Paul K.

Re: Rare/unique ACW poses

The problem with unique poses is, what do you do with 20 of them?

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I agree with Jay. Try talking to Germania figures, they do a range of civil war figures like the Texas brigade doing all manner of stuff.

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rare poses for me that i would want.shouldered arms,double time to advance,2 arms on the gun,head down.strelets has shown one pose in the pickets charge figures somewhat like this,but not hunched over with head down.like you were getting shot at.

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Jay
The problem with unique poses is, what do you do with 20 of them?


So you're saying never once did 20 soldiers surrender? Or start looking for ammo? What I meant wasn't that all poses should be exactly the same, like the infamous cup drinker in the Imex set, but slightly different.

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Unique is fine to a degree, but like you said, we don't need a company of coffee drinkers. Or like Britains recently did with their metal WWI, a platoon using the loo.
As far as other poses, I hope they avoid the seemingly required pose of mounted horsemen shooting to the side. Let's stick to cavalry charging, or at least moving forward.

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All these are nice ideas, to a point, but as has been said, you don't want 20 of them! The place for such unique figures would be in a large box set with the individual unique bonus sprue. I'm guessing IF Pickett's Charge is such a set, that's where they should be. & come on, a full set of loaders? I'd never buy it!

One stand alone set, that cries out for the ACW is casualties. Airfix did the best casualty poses ever! 1 each in their WW1 sets, another in FFL, WW2 Aussies & Ghurkhas, Romans, Nappy Brits, Highland, Imp Grd & French all had 1, plus the French had a great pose of a soldier carrying a comrade over his shoulder & Washington had 2 soldiers carrying a wounded man seated on a rifle. Best soldiers getting shot; WW2 Japanese, Nappy Highland, WW1 US. &, early version WW2 Marines had the "Saving Pvt Ryan" brother killed on Omaha pose! These are all perfect for a bloody ACW battlefield!