Good evening,
Since the discussion seemed to grow bigger on the standing, the loading,etc... it seems we are going towards very boring little soldiers era.
Most of us are in this hobby thanks to Airfix full of action boxes and Esci as well. The fact that soldiers spent more time waiting than acting is not a good business model; try to sell armies only standing or waiting and my bet is the hobby disappears in a year.
Human are spending 8 hours of their daily life sleeping so if I produce a box of civilian 30% should be in sleeping position! Same if you make a 1/72 scale representation of football player, if you want to sell how do you represent them since they barely play football 2hours a day.
We can possibly have a couple of standing figures in a box, ok.
Now getting rid of the loading figures will start getting me nervous as we speak of musket era so at some point muskets must be loaded or reloaded. if I don't want loading figures I wil move to another period like Ancient.
To me and only to me a box should represent the fundamentals ( firing, loading, advancing, marching) and great examples are Nap French Carabiniers or Nap British Peninsular infantry BUT as Chris Dobson said in a timely manner meaning now and not in ten years.
It was only my couple of euros to the debate.
I fully accept to be
wrong.
Cheers
CPN