A little over a week ago, I was perusing some pictures of forthcoming Frostgrave figures on the
North Star Facebook page. I noticed that there was a picture of a mid-1800's figure, with text indicating that North Star would mail out a sample figure of this forthcoming range of
1864 Danes if requested. Like a shot, I put in my request, and on Friday I got the figure.
This is for the
North Star 1864 range, which is aimed at the
Second Schleswig War, which besides being an interesting war fought between Denmark and Prussia/Austria during a time of political and technological change, is also the subject of a
recent TV series.
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Map of Denmark and the duchies in question |
Below are a series of pictures comparing the figure I revived (one of the pack NSD003 - Danish Infantry at the Ready. 1864) with some of the various figures I had in the lead mountain.
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1864 Dane right side |
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1864 Dane left side |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEY0_0ddsdmDrcxfMJ_frWTIup7Z2yXQh4hrfAz8gpkVLaqXH6UpRDcpa7y5PElNarVoKDYLN28_Z-rwGc_TltVSZQW5yKpLtZpZ4HOlhm_HWkzuvf0C3ouUKqtJwH70Geon8YHy8qxBpT/s640/IMG_7367.JPG) |
L to R: Forgotten Glorious French Officer, 1864 Dane, Pulp gangster, Copplestone Soviet |
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L to R: Perry Plastic Dragoon, 1864 Dane, GW Steel Legion, GW Valhallan |
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A look at the face |
As you can see from the above picture, the figure falls nicely into the "28mm" size, although it is a bit smaller than some figures in my collection. To the eye, I would estimate that this casting is only 27mm, and it is substantially more slender than the GW figures. This may be in part due to this figure being a younger man, as you can tell from the face. The casting seems to be fairly good over all, with no obvious mold lines, and just a bit of flash and a bit of extra metal on the bayonet which needs to be trimmed away. Being unfamiliar with the equipment of this army, I can not comment on the uniform or the pack, but it seems to fit with the few pictures I have seen. All in all, I think this figure would be great en mass, and would probably work out ok for single mounted skirmish type gaming.
2 comments:
Thanks for these pictures. Very helpful.
Thanks Legatus Hedlius. Glad this was helpful for someone.
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