Each year, Peter Cole of Replicants uses the Plastic Warrior Show to launch his latest range of figures, this year he had eight new mounted English Civil War troopers to tempt us, and this is what they look like:
Sold unpainted in packs of two figures and two horses, there are four in floppy hats and four in lobster pot helmets. Armed with a mixture of swords and firearms, there is also a rather nice trumpeter, they can all be painted up to represent either side in the conflict.
There are three different horse models, two of them are existing designs (standing, based on the Sacul guards officer horse and the smaller charging mount originally made for the Napoleonic Cossack) the new third one is a striding pose reminiscent of a first version Britains Deetail horse. Peter told me the reason for the resemblance is that the mould he made for the new horse incorporates the underbelly core from the original Deetail mould and he built the rest of the horse around it, finishing it off with a textured base attached to a front and back hoof. All three of the horses have an overmoulded saddle.
There was one other new figure (I forgot to take a picture of) which Peter made to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Plastic Warrior. It is a WW2 merchant seaman using a radio set and Peter told me he chose the subject as an homage to Roy Selwyn-Smith who was a signaller in the Merchant Navy, and also to his own father who was a signaller in the Royal Navy.
