I've now got the Battle Gear belt and confederate sword on my display Custer. I really am impressed with not only the painting of the new Custer but the modified head sculpt as I think Matt Falls really got the younger Civil War Custer spot on with this offering. I've got the Civil war head sculpt that Andy painted from drastic plastic but may use it on a non Little Bighorn version of the indian wars Custer I am working on. The resemblance to Custer on this last offering is far closer to Custer than was the six Gun legends version.
I've had a slight problem with the sword and belt from battle gear as there was no way to fasten it to the belt. The belt had one loop and the sword did not have any so I had to get some wire and make my own loop for the new Battle gear sword. The pistol from battle gear is really nice but I will have to drill out the end as it is solid at the end of the barrel.
As I have stated many times, if you do not have any problems with buying General Sherman, he does come with an extra set of longer cavalry boots that are perfect for the custer figure. So get a Sherman figure while you can on ebay as I just got one for only 20 dollars last week.
The current status of my display custer is I now have the taller boots on him, I've got the battle gear pistol, holster, belt and confederate officer sword (he carried a confederate captured sword on his belt accoding to Andy). Things I still need to do are change all of the buttons to the special Battle gear US buttons and figure out a way to make my own officer shoulder boards with general stars.
As a side note, I ordered several of the General Custer uniforms for only 5.95 from Monkey depot that seemed to be a great deal as they come with his coat, pants, shirt and most importantly his scarf with that necktie badge. I actually only wanted the scarf and necktie as I want to use this combination on my custom western Custer drastic Plastic Little Bighorn version. However I may still be able to use the extra uniforms and shirts for some other civil war kitbash someday.