Our very good friend Ed Borris has informed us that Paragon is showing civil war figures with exchangeable swivel heads. These figures will be available at OTSN. You can get a preview at the link below.
http://www.paragon-scenics.com/miniatures/Coming_Attractions.html
They’re looking to be some great action-packed poses. They will really liven up a scene. I know there are some who didn’t like the heads on their cavalry figures but in spite of that I’ve always been fond of them – they always looked to me like they stepped out of an old John Ford/John Wayne cavalry trilogy movie. So I could forgive it. These guys look really good. I figure between them, TSSD, and Conte (and Beau’s boys), one can do some great dios and conversions.
Swivel heads will be great for conversions, I can see some floppy hats making it into the Alamo.
I wish Paragon would use this exchangeable parts style to make some nice spaghetti western style gunfighters. I’d love to have a two-gun pistolero in a long duster with a hat like the bottom guy on the left.
JAKE that is an awesome idea, cowboys with swap arms and exchangeable parts will do and create multiple poses so needed in the western scenes…more than any regular soldiers as poses used by pistoleros and their way of shooting was unique. But once again it all depend on mold type used and cost unfortunately. If factory agree to run a mold figure split in parts body with out charging extra definitely could be done but I don’t think they will as production will take longer and cost more. Is the case of the OWN figure poses/mold I carry. Very complicated mold design and no easy to do.