Review: Charlie Battle – Plucky Young WW1 Tommy
Musketeer Miniatures was formed with the goal of using years of experience in figure sculpting and painting to create complete ranges of miniatures that wargamers want.
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They make a point of contacting other wargamers and historians whilst planning their ranges, and listen keenly to their ideas during the design and manufacture of each product.
They feel there is no point in producing pretty figures if they are inaccurate or of no use in a game.
Their figures are available in small packs, as they know gamers dislike wasting money on unnecessary surplus figures. Furthermore, they specifically produce the figures required by rules and army lists.
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The review sample sent was Charlie Battle – Plucky Young WW1 Tommy, cast in white metal. The miniature shipped in a small clear plastic bag.
About
Charlie Battle is a part of the Hazel’s Heroes line, a range of one-off figures that is aimed at those of us who just like to collect figures for painting rather than gaming. Hazel gives Bill a subject and he gets to do all the work and produce it for her!
For those of you not in the know, British soldiers have long been know as “Tommies” because when pay books were 1st issued in 1812 during the Peninsula campaign, soldiers were shown an example pay book in the name, “Private Thomas (Tommy) Atkins of the Grenadiers“.
Hence the nickname “Tommie” was born.
The Good
There was no cleaning to be done with this miniature aside from the basic clean-up with some washing-up liquid. There was no mold slippage.
Charlie Battle is a very nice miniature, armed with a Lewis Gun (a .303 cal Light Machine Gun) and dressed in the appropriate uniform of a WWI British soldier.
The Bad
None.
The Ugly
None.
Scale: 28mm scale
Cost: £2
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