15 mm Franco Prussian

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15 mm Franco Prussian

Post by lewenhaupt » Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:12 pm

Hi,

just got the excellent 1870 rule book in the mail, and want to start a 15 mm Franco Prussian collection to match this period.

Who has got a good range in terms of sculpting quality?

By the way, any good hints on great 15 mm terrain suppliers?? looking to do a nice Gravelotte St Privat playable scenery with the cemetery and village of St Privat as the focus.

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Post by CoffinDodger » Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:28 pm

Lewenhaupt,
Who has got a good range in terms of sculpting quality?
Have a look at the Hovels range.

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Post by 19th Century Trooper » Fri Jul 23, 2010 6:37 pm

15mm Figures:

Old Glory, Bavarians and Prussians are the best sculpts.

Outpost Miniatures - very extensive range.

Eagle Miniatures, basic French & Prussian, my personal favorite.

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Post by Rob Herrick » Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:29 pm

I have Essex, Old Glory and Falcon, with Eagle miniatures on the way.

Essex have their own distinctive style - if you don't like their figures in other periods, you probably will not like their Franco-Prussian lines. I rather like their artillery, the infantry are all right, and the generals paint up nicely.

Their cavalry do not come with flags for standards - If you are doing French and want their eagles, you will have to scratch-build them for the cavalry. It's a pain.

I'm disappointed with the Old Glory French and Prussians I have. They are not as large as their Napoleonics, and the detail is not as exaggerated. It may make them more anatomically and scale correct, but it makes things like buttons or frogging harder to paint.

I have a bunch of Falcon Prussians. A clean figure, with enough raised detail that you can paint things like buttons or piping easily and have it stand out on the figure. However, I don't know where you can get them - the website for Falcon doesn't seem to have 15mms at all any more.

I've also got some Eagle Miniatures French on order. They look nice. No eagle bearers, however.
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Post by Rob Herrick » Fri Aug 06, 2010 11:13 pm

Follow up on Eagle Miniatures - nice sculpts, but bad castings. Lots of missing bayonets, malformed bayonets, non-existent facial casts, and lots of flash.

Unfortunate.
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Re: 15 mm Franco Prussian

Post by Ben Waterhouse » Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:49 am

I use Freicorps 15 via QRF. Huge range, old fashioned true 15mm.
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Re: 15 mm Franco Prussian

Post by obriendavid » Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:46 am

lewenhaupt wrote: By the way, any good hints on great 15 mm terrain suppliers?? looking to do a nice Gravelotte St Privat playable scenery with the cemetery and village of St Privat as the focus.
Timecast have a great selection of 15mm buildings, I just wish they would produce them in a real wargaming scale :wink:
http://www.timecastmodels.co.uk/range_5/range_5.html
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