Plains Wars 20mn

After getting back from hospital today there was a little packet waiting for me in the letterbox. I took a gamble and ordered a test batch of 20mm plains wars figures from Irregular Miniatures. I say test batch because just because they say they're 20mm, it doesn't always mean they will match that of other manufacturers. To my relief, these two ranges, Newline Design and Irregular Miniatures are close enough to be a good fit together...phew.

It also adds some nice variation into the forces. The  Irregular ones are Sioux and so stand out from the more generic sculpts of Newline, by having bone armour etc. They also do other tribes, with around five poses in each including Crow. It'll be interesting to see what these are like.

Newline Design, Irregular Miniatures. The latter might be a tad smaller but certainly not enough to notice once based up.

Irregular do some nice crouching shooting Indians which will add more variety to the bases.

Here we can see the mounted versions, again a nice fit.

 The Newline Indians tend to go down the loin cloth route so the added clothes and details of Irregular Miniatures are greatly appreciated.

The only one that might need some tweaking is the officer shooting, his head is quite small. Although my old head swop trick would have him fixed in a jiffy. He would make a great Custer with the new head. Ironically, it would better match my mounted model as they both have buckskins on 

UPDATE: here is the tweaked officer, just needed a little neckachef and he's done. Now which one do I go with? 

Let's make him Tom Custer...I've just decided.