Battlefield Miniatures

August was a super busy month and September looks like it will be busier than ever in developing new poses before my next show. At the present time I have over three dozen new poses that I am working on and hope to have completed by November for the East Coast Toy Soldier Show in Hackensack, NJ. (see the Show page for dates and times). So in order to show you "more" of these new poses I have increased the number figures listed in the feature of the month section.

WW2 GI 2pc wounded: This set was designed as a companion piece to my two other WW2 multi-pose specialty sets which dealt with wounded germans. This conversion design was done by my son Tim who by the way has designed about 95% of the WW2 GI conversions.

Deadly Aim: I like to make conversions that are action oriented and in this case you see the result of that action. Here this german soldier takes "deadly aim" and delivers a fatal shot to an allied paratrooper who just entered this heavily damaged house in a french village.

German Officer Running: I for one like to see more action oriented German officer poses. So this is my second running pose for a German Officer. I'm currently working on some more officer poses so stay tuned!

Jim Bowie: Ok, now most of you know that Jim Bowie was not in the best of health at the Alamo. Well, good old Gary likes to do things differently so I created this "running pose" so Bowie could run all over the Alamo compound and mow down those attacking Mexicans with his multibarrel weapon (anybody know what this was really called?).

My thanks to Jonathan Steplyk who provided information on Jim Bowie's gun. He writes:

"It's a seven-barreled volley gun designed by Henry Nock of London. In Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series (Napoleonic historical fiction - highly recommended), one of the characters uses it very effectively."

If you would like more information Jonathan also provided the following web link which actually shows a picture of the gun. http://southessex.co.uk/weapons/nock.htm

Jonathan, thanks so much for providing this information, it is very much appreciated.
Best Regards, Gary

3 Versions of New Orleans Grays Loading: Now if you are like me you can only use so many of the same pose--standing and loading your musket. So with this in mind I developed these 3 different conversion poses using the same top section but a different bottom section. Now you have a NOG on both knees, one on one knee and a guy actually loading while running (yeah, ever try to load a musket while running? It's not easy!).