North West Mounted Police

[urbancohort]

How about some NWMP for a Wild West scenario with a difference?

Or some cowboys/gun slingers please?

[Leon]

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[Bill Braham]

Depends what your concept is:

If it is this

http://www.militaryheritage.com/images/nwmp.jpg

or this

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/North_West_Mounted_Police_Calgary_Alberta_1901.jpg

Then ZC2 might do in the Zulu Wars range.

If, however, your concept is more this

http://www.devonheritage.org/stentiford/Issue_4/JohnStuttaford/Images/1874.gif

or

http://imageweb-cdn.magnoliasoft.net/bridgeman/supersize/pnp335488.jpg

Then it would be time to fire up the sculpters.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hi

I think people have this sort of vision of mounties:-





Unfortunate that the lemon squeezer has the indents in the wrong spots for NZ or US troops  otherwise they'd have my vote too .

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[FierceKitty]

Where's the lumberjack?

[GrumpyOldMan]

Where's the lumberjack?

He sleeps all night and he works all day.
He's a lumberjack, and he's okay.

(he types, mucking up the order of the lyrics)

[Techno]

Where's the lumberjack?

He's the one pressing wild flowers, out of shot.
Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

And wishes her were a girly just like his dear mama.

IanS

[Leman]

I thought there were Canadian cavalry in pillbox hats already available. Aren't there also Confederates, Boers, Communards and C19th civilians that might be suitable?

[Bill Braham]

Leman

The Canadian cavalry in pillbox are is shell or stable jacket and are only equipped with sword/pistol as appropriate for mounted militia in the 1860s.

Grumpy Old Man

Ah the magic of the movies! Alas my post was an attempt to be based on what they wore in the early years. The current RCMP full dress with the 'hat' obviously recalls the days when that was  what they wore everyday in the North West Mounted Police. Not sure when the 'hat' came in though though this Bryan Fosten plate shows a 'Mountie' (NWMP) in 1897 (Diamond Jubilee job presumably).

http://www.military-art.com/mall/images/pcx8.jpg

[Leon]

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