MAJOR DUNDEE RANGE

One of the things I've been thinking about is an ACW range but based on the film Major Dundee. It was a shame that that great actor Charlton Heston died. He was remembered as the great Gordon plus of course Major Dundee. To keep the film going he renounced his salary as Peckinpah had overshot the budget.
Remember the range could be used for the Mexican adventure shown in the film or that of the ACW. I'll try and devote my attention to this sometime. I'd like to do it in plastic and I'm talking to some Chinese firms. Who knows. If you can give advice on that please do. MY PROPOSED RANGE
1. Confederate Zoauve firing coly another in his hand
2. Confed bareheaded bald with beard firing with pistol sabre in other hand
3 French Lancer parrying with broken lance
4Confed thrusting outwards with fixed bayonet
5. Major Dundee with colt and sabre
6.Union soldier firing rifle/carbine
7.same but fat and bareheaded
8.same but kneeling firing
9.Union soldier wearing sombrero firing pistol
10.Union officer kepi firing pistol
11.Quantrill firing shotgun at Lawrence
12.Raider two pistols firing both
13.Same but one pistol
14.Sharpshooter union Stndg firing
15. " " " kneeling firing
14 . Tennessee Volunteers adv with fixed bayonet five versions
15.Western United States infantry advancing but with straw hats.
This is my first drawn up idea . Some will go with the Major Dundee scenario others won't but if you are interested leave your comments

LIBYA

Here are Bersasglieri in Libya. These are also on the agenda. Note the grey green uniforms. I will also do the Turks and their Bedouin allies.

Bersaglieri

The Bersaglieri portrayed here will be another feature of my production. Here they are seen leaving for China. Note the uniforms.

How a figure comes to fruition

I originally planned solely Napoleonic ; my idea was to create soldiers in action poses (always) and then to put them into scenes where they could interelate. This still holds true but I have now gi9ven way to requests from customers who wanted different periods and while I'll still do the Napoleonic range I will do other periods. Here is a list of my Libyan War range

THE LIBYAN WAR

1.Alpini officer standing firing pistol

2. Alpini kneeling firing

3.Alpini Stdg firing

4. Alpini running attacking

5.Officer kneeling firing pistol

6.Officer adv sabre

7Alpini thrusting Bayonet

8 " " " Upwards

9 " " " Downwards

10. Muleteer with mule firing over mules back

11. Machine gunner with gun

12. Alpini bayonet en-garde

13. Alpini attacking bareheaded with knife

14. Arab auxilary firing rifle

This range in 54 mmm was going to be in toy soldier Britain's style but I think that while I may still do that I will first of all bring these out in realistic form in the A.I.P style or should I say size.

The list above is more or less what I want to do with my Legion series MARCH OR DIE. The film although slated was to me a great film for the Toy or model soldier fraternity. It rocked from the beginning and was accurate. Gene Hackman firing pistol should be ready soon. Tererence Hill firing machine gun from the hip as in the film is done. Next time out I'll put in my proposed ACW range to give you an idea of my plans.

NEW SOLDIERS OF FIXED BAYONET.

These are ready

Rifleman Harris Stng Firing
Companion at the ready fixing to fire
Coonaught Ranger attacking
Terence Hill from the film March Or Die to go with A.I.P figures

Coming. Imminent
James Coburn CROSS OF IRON to go with King and Country firing
James Mason as above firing trench mac
London Volunteers firing
Gene Hackman March or Die firing pistol


In preperation
Imperial Guard attacking bayonet
Russian Nap inf firing
Hessians advancing fixed bayonet AWI
Crimea War Guards adv fixed bayonet
French line inf in greatcoats Peninsular adv fixed bayonet
French Foreign Legion standing Firing March or Die
Arabs stndg firing
Toy soldier range
Westphalian Rifles firing
French Grenadiers in four poses
Russians ww2 Cross of Iron
ACW Zoaves with officer

Sadlers volunteers

A new set of figures coming based on London Volunteers in the Napoleonic times

FIXED BAYONET FIGURES

FIXED BAYONET NEW FIGURES

The new figures will be

British Riflemen firing

Connaught Rangers attacking

These will be of the Spanish Napoleonic campaign

New starts will be made with

GERMANSww2 in the Crimea

plus the FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION

one figure standing firing machine gun from hip

This will be the first.

WE will be considering the Grenadier regiments in a variety of uniforms as you can see on the right.