Wm Britains #17472 Mexican Cazadores 3-Figure Set, Mexican Cazadores - Running

This 3-piece set of Mexican Cazadores (roughly light infantry riflemen) from Wm Britains is excellent. I especially like the figure running with the TV antenna - OOPS, I mean ladder hahahahahaha I'll post these in three separate parts beginning today. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Wm Britains #17380 Civil War Tents

A couple of days ago we posted some pup tents from Wm Britains and today we have their #17380 Civil War Tents. It's funny, but they call the set 'Civil War Tents' - that's 'Tents' with an 's', plural, yet there is clearly only one tent in the box. That being said, it is a really terrific tent. There are two pieces in the box, the main tent and a removable tent pole. The tents has tie-down ropes made with real string and they're pre-attached to the tent and to stakes in the 'ground'. Enjoy!

A comparison shot some of the tents we've covered. L-to-R: Marx, Safari Ltd, Wm Britains, MPC

Like it Deine Gattin Bettina :)   

Wm Britains #17440 Pup Tents

As part of our coverage of Civil War accessories we ended up on a tent binge that has yet to subside. Today we'll look at Wm Britains #17440 Pup Tents set. I have very few Wm Britains items, mostly because they just cost too much for me which means I must have got these at a very good price years ago. That being said, all of Britains products are of high quality with excellent design and sculpting which is precisely why they cost more than the average miniatures and these tents are no exception. The set includes two different tents with four support poles. One tent clearly has a horizontal pole set in the top center of the 'canvas' which is designed to rest upon the two shorter poles. The second tent has no horizontal pole and is probably meant to have a piece of string attached to one of the taller supports, through the tent, and attached to the other pole. However, one of those taller poles actually depicts a rifle stuck in the ground barrel first! Would this have been a common practice in the field if no other support was available? During the photo shoot I did not set this second tent up that way, leaving that for any future display or diorama. Enjoy!

 

I Enjoy it Deine Frau Bettina :)