Creole Guide 1805 - Thunderbird Historical Miniatures Review

[Guy]

TB 54003
"Creole Guide", Lewis & Clark Expedition 1805
54mm resin
Sculpted by Mike Good
Painted by Doug Cohen
12 resin parts

In March of 2009, Thunderbird Historical Miniatures released this figure sculpted by Mike Good representing a French Creole Guide for the Lewis & Clark Expedition of 1805.

Arriving in a sturdy cardboard box with components of the kit sealed in individual zip-lock bags and further wrapped in bubble wrap to ensure against breakage during shipping. The kit consists of 12 resin parts.

Above you see the head of the guide cast separately with a small hole in the corner of his mouth to facilitate a pipe supplied with the kit.

Above are the four sides of the torso showing the attention to detail Mike Good is famous for.

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[Guy]

Above are the front and back sides of the right and left arms cast separately.

Above you see both sides of the rifle, powder horn, pipe and other accessories.

Above is the dog cast in three resin parts.

The kit also comes with a textured resin base for the Guide and his dog.

Additional Box Art
Photographs

Conclusion:
An excellent kit depicting a rare topic of American History. Well cast with normal resin clean-up required. Highly recommended.

Thunderbird Historical Miniatures

R357

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[Steve]

I love this figure. Thanks for the review, Guy!

 

[captnenglish]

I'm having a lot of fun painting this, thought I'm going to have to replace the dog as mine was so badly damaged it was almost unusable. Thanks for the review

 

[rheath]

Creole Guide 1805.

Beautiful sculpture by Mike Good, always a pleasure to see his work and painting, nice painting by Doug Cohen.

A must have I'm sure.

Thanks for posting, RobH.

 

[Kirtles]

Nice review again Guy - this is a lovely figure.
Great work from Mike again also.

Steve
www.skminiatures.co.uk

 

[AJLaFleche]

This figure is in my gray army, having been drafted at MFCA. I may use a different base for him, however.
I'm very inpressed with the quality and price of Thunderbird's releases. Hopefully, they will keep coming.

 

[megroot]

Thanks for this great revieuw Guy.

marc