Ultimate Miniatures
FFL, Schutztruppen, Natives

Figure Review

by Richard Brooks


As I have written before these figures are for the table-top and not necessarily for show, they make great war game armies and are not that expensive to form armies being approximately the same price as Old Glory. For 38 years Jack Scruby's figures were the basis for my armies, along with SAE. I can't complain about them having less detail and animation than today’s figure ranges, heck without Jack Scruby figures and the publicity he garnered for war gaming in the US we would not have nearly what we have today. Anyway, these figure designs are as good as many figures produced by Old Glory and better than a lot of other manufacturers.

A new catalogue is in the works and will be available soon, more later. New figures available will include camels and dromedaries in 25 and 30mm, and several 25mm Turks. Next issue, in December, will see the 28mm figures and in February the N-Scale (12-13mm) figures. If you have the eyes to paint the N-Scale figs these guys will look great in large units moving about the table.

I have been thinking about using these on pins for kriegspiel campaign map games and think they will look great representing infantry, cavalry and artillery units, and I won't ruin my eyes further (they don't make quad focals yet) just painting a few dozen. See the big give away page and get some figures today and see for yourself how great these are as well as economical.

Prices:

N-Scale 20 infantry $4, 10 Cavalry $4
25mm $0.75 each foot and $1.50 cavalry
30mm $1.10 each foot and $2.20 cavalry
30mm (numbers in parentheses are measurements from top of base to eyes)

German Schutztruppen
1532 Trooper, on guard (29)
1533 Trooper, standing firing (29)
1534c Trooper, mounted, with rifle on hip (26)

French Foreign Legion
1535 Legionnaire, on guard, Africa (30)
1536 Legionnaire, kneeling firing, Africa
1537 Legion Officer, firing pistol (28.5) small size fits better with 28mm Ultimate figs see next issue
1579c Chasseur a Cheval cavalry, attacking
1538c Sipahi, attacking
1576 Senegalese Tirailleur 1890, standing firing (28.5), bayonet, pack, great looking figure
1577 Algerian Zouave, charging, in turban (29)
1578 French Fusilier Marine, on guard (30.5) very big guy good for one or two per unit but not for whole unit.
1812 Zouave, in fez, no pack, firing (29), very nice fig, great tassel on fez, from their ACW line

Native Warriors I must be crazy, yeah, yeah, but I don't recognize this costume on the Sudanese, maybe Ethiopian? Bedouin? 1517 Sudanese Warrior, standing firing, (30) 1514 Sudanese Warrior, advancing with spear (28.5) 1522c Sudanese Warrior, mounted with spear 1515 Fuzzy Wuzzy, attacking with spear (29), strange hairdo 1516 Fuzzy Wuzzy, attacking with sword (28), strange hairdo 1519 Bedouin, kneeling firing, very nice figure 1518 Bedouin standing firing (27.5) very nice 1523c Arab Cavalry, with scimitar, charging head to left

25mm
3346 German Schutztruppen, artilleryman (20.5)
3350 French Foreign Legionnaire, Indo-China 1883, on guard (21)
3351 French Foreign Legionnaire, Indo-China 1883, advancing (21)
3353 French Sailor, shore duty, standing (21)
3352 Annamite Regular, Indo-China, on guard (21.5)
3342 Italian Bersaglieri, on guard (21) very nice
3343 Eritrean Askari, firing (21)
3335 Sudanese Warrior, advancing with sword (22)
3336 Native standard-bearer (21)


Back to The Heliograph # 127 Table of Contents
Back to The Heliograph List of Issues
Back to Master Magazine List
© Copyright 2001 by Richard Brooks.
This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web.
Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com