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Coming this week to Kickstarter.
Plastic Mounted US Cavalry.
10 Miniatures per set.
Super fast fulfilment - shipping in April.

Sign up for the launch notification here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deadmanshand/dead-mans-hand-plastic-mounted-us-cavalry-28mm-scale

Launches 6pm Thursday.
Please share!

I really enjoyed your gunslinger kits, I need to get some more cowboys and cav some time.

Those are cool, I liked some of the others as well. Hopefully this does well!

Remember don't paint any Cav horses grey.
The US Cav primarily used Morgans.
The US Cav would not purchase/breed greys.

CommodorePerry wrote:
Remember don't paint any Cav horses grey.
The US Cav primarily used Morgans.
The US Cav would not purchase/breed greys.

I respect the hill you have chosen to make your stand on sir. Kudos.

CommodorePerry wrote:
Remember don't paint any Cav horses grey.
The US Cav primarily used Morgans.
The US Cav would not purchase/breed greys.

Yes you are correct in that the vast majority were not grey (primarily as they could be seen too easily and spotted further away by enemies).

Unless you are painting E company of the 7th cavalry who rode all grey horses after Custer reformed the colours of horses for each company to allow officers to more easily see what companies were doing what on the battlefield.

Also the 6th Cavalry.

This practice was not normal in war time as attrition made it too difficult to keep up the correct numbers needed of each colour.

And musicians/buglers to help them stand out in battle

These are for a skirmish game set in the Old West called Dead Man's Hand, where we assume these fellows are operating somewhat beyond the bounds of formal, if any, orders.

And if a troop needs some horses and it rides bays, but the only ones available are not bays, you're going to take the horses.

This is fantastic news, I’ll be making a pledge for a couple of boxes of these.

I hope ‘Renegade Apaches’ and ‘Banditos’ (both on foot and mounted) are also not far away.

Great Escape Games are doing really excellent plastics and great skirmish rules for westerns.

Keep up the great work!

Thank you, modelhunter, they are indeed the next two figure sets.
Here is the frame:

Funded! Now we're in amongst the stretch goals.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deadmanshand/dead-mans-hand-plastic-mounted-us-cavalry-28mm-scale

Also added a pic for the guidon bearer, with whom we will also supply a flag.

Some of the gloves still look wildly oversized I recon. Great set otherwise, I love the extra bits you always pack on there.

Super excited for Apaches and Banditos tho

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Some of the gloves still look wildly oversized I recon. Great set otherwise, I love the extra bits you always pack on there.

Super excited for Apaches and Banditos tho

Sometimes the gloves are wildly oversized in real life, from what I have seen

 skrulnik wrote:
Sometimes the gloves are wildly oversized in real life, from what I have seen

Yup. I've worn a pair of said oversized gloves, back in my drum major days...

Maybe I am out of the loop, but what is the 'not a very well kept secret' for the next plastic set/s that is mentioned on the Kickstarter page?

Is it Renegade Apaches and/or Banditos?

 modelhunter wrote:
Maybe I am out of the loop, but what is the 'not a very well kept secret' for the next plastic set/s that is mentioned on the Kickstarter page?

Is it Renegade Apaches and/or Banditos?

Renegade Apaches.