Supervillain: Redcoat (and the Chosen Men)

Here's Redcoat, a dashing supervillain dressed like a Napoleonic-era British officer in some slightly non-regulation colors. Aside from being "Sharpely" dressed, Richard Welles hides his identity with a blue half-face mask, which wasn't exactly standard issue in the 1800s. Of course, most Napoleonic soldiers didn't have an M4 carbine with a 100-round casket magazine either. (One imagines the course of the Napoleonic Wars would have been a bit different if they had.)

Aside from the gun and gun-arm (which are from the Warlord Games Project Z Spec Ops sprue), all parts are from the Wargames Atlantic Napoleonic British Riflemen box. This also means I have plenty of fodder for uniformed henchmen if desired.

So, here we have some of Redcoat's top henchmen, the Chosen Men. (According to Wikipedia: "Chosen man was a rank primarily found in the Rifle Brigade denoting a marksman and/or leadership material." I only know it from the Sharpe TV series with Sean Bean.) I don't suppose all of Redcoat's minions wear historical uniforms all the time, but surely his most loyal men do when on the job. Gangs have to have flair and pizzazz to hold their territory in a super-powered world. The fellow with his gun up in the air is The Sergeant, Redcoat's right-hand henchman with massive, red-orange sideburns.

The bodies and heads are from the Wargames Atlantic Napoleonic British Riflemen box, like Redcoat, but the arms are from the Wargames Atlantic Cannon Fodder box. The guns are boxy, ugly, and somewhat ludicrous, but once the front quarter inch is removed, they're not too-badly sized. I imagine that (in-universe) these weapons are cheap, low quality, mass produced, and untraceable; they're manufactured to poor tolerances by the criminal underworld from a common blueprint. Classic disposable guns. (Also, I've got a box of these tiny guns and I need to start popping them onto miniatures.)