The recent spate of blog entries about the half-size Funny Little Wars battles that have been fought in Sheffield by Tim Gow and Martin Rapier has encouraged me to think about staging some similar battles. I have quite a few artillery pieces and four infantry regiments (and some cavalry) in my Cordeguayan Funny Little Wars army, but most of the toy soldiers are plastic Britains Deetail figures ... and these have a tendency to fall over rather too easily if the terrain is not very flat. I have, therefore, been looking for some additional, all-metal figures to supplement my existing collection.
The Cordeguayan Funny Little Wars army is almost exclusively made up of American Civil War and Wild West figures, and I decided that the most obvious thing for me to do was to look for metal Britains figures that would fit in with my existing figures ... and discovered that the company had produced a range of US Marines in ceremonial dress (dark blue jackets, light blue trousers, white peaked cap) and sets of these figures were available at reasonable prices on eBay ... so I bought some!
So far I have bought a box of six marching US Marines ...
... and a box with eight marching figures and two standard bearers.
I am on the lookout for some more of these figures so that I can field at least one large 'regiment' of marines for full-size Funny Little War battles ... which will also allow me to have a small 'brigade' for half-sized FLW ones.
The Cordeguayan Funny Little Wars army is almost exclusively made up of American Civil War and Wild West figures, and I decided that the most obvious thing for me to do was to look for metal Britains figures that would fit in with my existing figures ... and discovered that the company had produced a range of US Marines in ceremonial dress (dark blue jackets, light blue trousers, white peaked cap) and sets of these figures were available at reasonable prices on eBay ... so I bought some!
So far I have bought a box of six marching US Marines ...
... and a box with eight marching figures and two standard bearers.
I am on the lookout for some more of these figures so that I can field at least one large 'regiment' of marines for full-size Funny Little War battles ... which will also allow me to have a small 'brigade' for half-sized FLW ones.
