Echoes

Marksmen (Peter Cole)
Replicants can now proudly take its place in the ranks of firms like Herald, Airfix and Marx, whose work has been imitated and copied. The above figure, originally done by Peter Cole for Marksmen but now returned to the Replicants fold as part of the CW3 set, was derived from the wood engraving below.
Engraving

Early Version
An early version was made in more of a kneeling position but this turned out to be beyond the bounds of what was anatomically possible.
Marksmen
The Marksmen set was issued in 1992. This 40mm version of the figure turned up in an American Civil War set made in China in or around 1996.
BMC
Then in 2001 BMC produced this plastic figure which was in turn a simplified version of one produced [in the same year?] by King and Country in white metal
Replicants
The new Union dismounted cavalryman in a way completes the circle. Replicants has tried to copy the best features of the original figure and the BMC one; and in consequence we believe we have produced the best version so far of this pose.

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