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Post by Graeme on Nov 24, 2017 2:13:37 GMT
Quite right he's trying to mislead HaT as to the level of interest in this set and advance his own preference above those who have made honest requests for other sets. And that's not acceptable. Brian is right about the crowd funding situation though, if every one of this guys multiple personalities pledged for 10 boxes and put the money up front there wouldn't be a problem. For the record I believe I would buy Brunswickers. Brunswickers already exist in non-MAC format. The only point of more Brunswickers would be as a MAC release I believe the proposed set of Brunswickers was a marching set to satisfy the wargamers needs for a lot of marching figures. But HaT has said that they are making sets that already have masters made before moving on to other things and I'm not sure this set did advance to the masters stage. As I said I'll buy them if HaT makes them.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 19, 2017 15:29:15 GMT
Your Netherlands cavalry look terrific, very nice job on all of them. And the conversions on the riflemen and carabiniers are most interesting.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 15, 2017 13:50:32 GMT
Nice!
a good looking table, very good looking figures and really nice photos.
If you were making a picture dictionary that shot of the Russian artillery would be the definition for "formidable".
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Post by Graeme on Nov 15, 2017 13:14:31 GMT
Alas the close of what has been an outstanding piece of work. I've enjoyed every minute of it. Excellent action pictures once again. and that very atmospheric shot of the battlefield at night is a fittingly sombre epilogue to what was a bitterly fought battle. The picture of Napoleon after the battle is a real piece of art. But anyway I'm off to get a good seat for Quatre Bras.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 15, 2017 12:50:21 GMT
Wonderfully colourful Mamelukes! and the Invincibles in the background look good too, two great sets. One of the big attractions of Napoleonics is the splendid uniforms, and you have given us splendid uniforms aplenty here. I don't mind the idea of a couple of Mamelukes being in with the Guard Chasseurs a Cheval for 1815. Haythornethwaite says some Mameluke clothing was ordered and some items even issued. And also that some former members of the Mamelukes are known to have rejoined the army on Napoleons return although they didn't ride together as a unit. I figure these were proud men, why wouldn't they wear their old uniforms if they still had them? I might sneak a couple of these fine looking fellows in with my Chasseurs and I have a deaf ear reserved for the naysayers who tell me I can't.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 13, 2017 12:40:17 GMT
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Post by Graeme on Nov 12, 2017 12:59:42 GMT
Always happy to see pictures of Highlanders but I don't want to hijack Kay's thread.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 11, 2017 17:14:46 GMT
Pics of the test shot of the marching in greatcoats set are on the website here: www.hat.com/Curr2/Bx8234MF/Bx8234FG.htmlI believe they are 1/72 versions of the figures in the 1/32 sets. I'm looking forward to when they get round to the command set with that awesome looking officer.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 11, 2017 16:39:41 GMT
Graeme, I like your avatar. It's a bit cheeky but I mentioned the subject in another post so I purloined the image to get an avatar that fit the subject. And it was a beautiful dream.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 11, 2017 3:17:08 GMT
Great news. A full Napoleonic E-release, just like the good old days. It will be good to get all of those sets.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 11, 2017 3:04:58 GMT
Great pictures of some very good looking troops. It's good to see the Belgians, I really like that set. The shot looking along the line of Perponcher's division is an impressive sight. Ney's got no chance of dining in Brussels.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 10, 2017 5:22:59 GMT
HaT did say that they sometimes make things like these pegs and gun axles, etc a bit longer than they should be in case the mould doesn't fill completely. Good idea.
Wayne.
A couple of thoughts regarding your fiddly tricornes would it help to leave each hat on a section of sprue to use as a handle while you fit it. Or leave all the hats on the sprue, have the sprue upside down on the bench and fit the figure to the hat, trim off when the glue is set. A figures got to be a bit easier to handle than a tiny hat.
I guess you're voting for having one of the hats moulded onto the figure. This would mean the alternative headgear was on spare heads with pins on the neck, requiring cutting off the figures head and drilling a hole for the pin. I don't have a problem with that but is it more fiddly than fitting one of the separate hats. A few of the folks who bought the 7YW Prussians reported that the spare hats were a very good fit (bearing in mind the tip above about shortening the peg).
If a figure had to be sacrificed to make way for spare hats/heads then I would volunteer the guy standing to attention to be the casualty. But a lot of other folks really like this pose. Might make more sense in the marching set though.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 9, 2017 17:03:42 GMT
1. Brunswick artillery, yes I'd buy them, definitely. 2. Napoleonic highlanders. The GREATEST set HaT never made! www.hat.com/PollHighlander.htmlHaT told us they would not make this set due to all of the other sets on the market. Which was a disappointment because as far as I was concerned the other sets were either unavailable or unacceptable. So I converted from the Italeri reissue of the old ESCI set to get the figures I wanted. Then, of course, I managed to get my hands on the previously unavailable sets (just because I don't need them now) and another company is making more, haven't seen these in the local shop yet but if I do I'll buy some. If HaT changed their mind and made this set I'd definately buy it but I don't really need it, I'm happy to stick with my dodgy MacNipntucs. 3&4. I'll take any British infantry and command figures in Belgic shakos. 5. I don't think personality sets are really HaT's thing but I'd be happy for them to prove me wrong. I love personality figures, I'm pleased to say that three other manufacturers have provided me with mounted figures for Wellington, DeLancey and Major Henry Percy with his purple handkerchief purse. For Blucher, Gneisenau, Bulow and potentially Lutzow. For Orange, Brunswick, Uxbridge, Hill and Picton. And for Napoleon, Ney, Grouchy and a whole lot of other French Marshals and Generals. I had to convert some of these from dismounted figures. But a lot of these figures are getting hard to find, and there's some I can't get ($70 on E-Bay is a bit much for a set of plastic figures) so what will people new to the hobby do for them. Also I'd like figures for Prince Bernhard, Perponcher, Bylandt and Constant Rebeque. 38-41. I'll take figures for the Jacobite Rebellion from whoever wants to make them. We definitely need cavalry artillery and maybe some French infantry. Also I'd love to have personality figures of Cumberland and Cherlie. I've got Lord George and if I order a HaT box of Robin Hood figures that should give me Colonel Anne but any other personality figs would be gratefully accepted. It's a shame Redbox stopped where they did with their Jacobite themed sets, they had made a great start. Haron from Redbox posts on a couple of other forums, he said he plans to do cavalry and artillery at some time in the future but has lots of other things on the to do list. I got some unsatisfactory artillery from Imex and Unsatisfactory dragoons from Zvezda. I'm thinking Revell's Dragoons and 7yw artillery (if I can get any) might be better. I'll buy British dragoons and artillery from whoever makes them first and the rag tag fill ins can go to the jacobites. Unless someone makes Jacobite cavalry and artillery, in which case I'll buy those instead.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 9, 2017 5:14:10 GMT
You can add "Forty Thousand Horsemen" to my list, I watched the film on the night of the 100th anniversary of the charge at Beersheba and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's full of the kind of jingoism you expect from a film of that vintage (1941) and there's the ubiquitous love story and a bizarre escape scene in the middle, but it's a rattling good action movie.
Real Light Horsemen were used and the scenes of the columns moving through the desert and battle scenes are beautifully filmed. Actually if you've ever watched a documentary on the Light Horse at Beersheba you've probably seen some of them. The film had me believing I was watching 40,000 men riding through the Middle Eastern desert even if it was just Cronulla Beach.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 9, 2017 4:42:45 GMT
That would interest me, I already have the Redbox sets so, in a sense I've already started. I'd like any of the quirky, interesting units from this period like Native Americans, American Militia and Rangers, but I'd especially like any British or French troops that can be drafted into my Jacobite Rebellion armies. And maybe it will get me started on buying HaT's other 7YW sets. If the question of choice of bonus figures ever arises then it has to be Lieutenant Cook with a lead line in a rowing boat.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 8, 2017 3:50:11 GMT
beautifully painted and the figures look very good. I'm glad I bought them.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 7, 2017 18:15:01 GMT
Very nice Kay. Splendid looking troops and they'll hold that church all day long. I do like the Nassauers and this is a very good depiction of them.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 7, 2017 17:47:39 GMT
A few general observations for any future Napoleonic sets:
!. MAC is best.
2. For the action set, equal numbers of standing firing and loading figures please. My favourite figure is advancing with bayonet at the low port but I liked the way the Prussian Landwehr set also had advancing figures with higher pitched bayonets for the second rank. Again equal numbers. If an action set was half firing line and half advancing I'd be happy.
3. For sets with alternative headwear there needs to be enough of the alternative heads/hats so that making a whole unit with the alternative headwear is a viable option. The 7YW Prussian sets did this well and it seems that the surplus hats were very useful to people for conversions.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 7, 2017 2:48:56 GMT
Yes! Both.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 6, 2017 10:54:26 GMT
I've been asking for Pommeranian Piccolo Players a LOT longer than you for Landwehr Cavalry OR Austrian Infantry - but I would gladly join in crowdfunding for either or both... With Pommeranian Piccolo Player bonus figures, obviously.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 3, 2017 14:03:00 GMT
I wasn't at Waterloo 2015, which is why I really like it when people who were there post their pictures. Thanks Gerd.
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Post by Graeme on Nov 3, 2017 13:22:56 GMT
Hi Edwardian. Re. the Penisular cav. As I understand it these were made under the old manufacturing whereby sets could be scaled up or down from one set of masters using a pantograph. If you ever used a drawing tool like this as a kid, that's a pantograph in it's simplest form: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph#/media/File:Pantograph_animation.gifImagine one of these with a cutting tool on the end instead of a pen, and you can move it in three dimensions rather than just two and you've got the basic idea. HaT's new system uses CAD so I suppose the masters are digital, sizing is done on the computer and the sizing test figures we saw were 3D printed. I'm not sure if this means the old masters can't be used for the new system or if the master figures can be 3D scanned to digitise them (although HaT have said that they are making sets with existing masters first). Either way I don't think the masters are the biggest hurdle. The figures were made in 28mm which means the mould was cut in 28mm and, I believe, cutting the mould is by far the most expensive and time consuming part of the manufacturing process. (note that HaT's moulds are not the relatively fast, cheap and short lived soft moulds some others use but are milled from blocks of steel). A 1/72 set would require at least a new mould. I don't know the situation with the 1815 command set but if the moulds were lost then a new set might have to recoup two lots of manufacturing costs before it makes a profit. There might be other factors involved but I think the bloke in your avatar would advise us not to speculate. Anyway, I would support all 3 of these sets if they came up for crowd funding(don't forget the heavy cav). I would buy them if they were made under normal production. Crowd funding might determine if resurrecting these is viable. The downside is if they don't reach the target due to peoples resistance to crowd funding they might be cancelled unnecessarily. I like the idea of Prussian Landwehr Cavalry too. And yes, we do need the various uniforms, or at the very least we need some figures in czapkas and kollets so we can head swap with the uhlans and dragoons (this would mean we also need restocks of the uhlans and dragoons). Although HaT have said they are working on sets with existing masters first.
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Post by Graeme on Oct 31, 2017 4:08:00 GMT
Very nice and very practical as a gaming piece.
That big, old Airfix gun barrel is a good choice for a gunboat, It looks like a very big gun that can do a serious amount of damage.
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Post by Graeme on Oct 31, 2017 3:47:44 GMT
Wonderful stuff Chris. I've commented on the first pic before, it's good to see the new HaT Landwehr in action. The cavalry pics are fabulous, a real sense of action. The third shot with the two forces about to come together is magnificent, I was imagining the terrible impact when they met. Then, when I got to the last shot I saw it happening before my eyes. Incredible! As Edwardian says, your refights are the real thing. I don't know how you can sleep with the racket they must be making.
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Post by Graeme on Oct 24, 2017 3:55:03 GMT
They look very good and I imagine some people will be very happy with that correct pose for the sitting gunner.
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