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Post by Graeme on Oct 24, 2017 3:42:34 GMT
These look fabulous! I see some of my favourite poses there and they look really good in the field. Really looking forward to my delivery. Great photo too Chris, excellent composition and positioning of figures. A very close fight framed by the trees and dissolving into the smoke, perfect. It has a real intensity and is super realistic, I think HaT couldn't ask for a better advertisement for this wonderful product.
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Post by Graeme on Oct 22, 2017 12:24:42 GMT
They're probably all in China At the moment GC, or wherever the boxes are packed.
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Post by Graeme on Oct 21, 2017 0:55:50 GMT
Very good looking figures. The faces and beards are great and there's a really nice balance of light and shade on the uniforms.
They are all fine looking troops, rustic but dignified. But I think my favourite pic is the one of the guys in the mixed coloured coats and fur caps.
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Post by Graeme on Oct 20, 2017 0:36:31 GMT
I would be interested in these sets, I'd also be interested in a resurrection of the 1815 command set if the masters survived.
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Post by Graeme on Oct 19, 2017 4:32:27 GMT
They are: Sapper (pioneer), Officer with sword, Medic (Surgeon), and ADC.
They're not more specific than that but yes, the officer with sword looks like a regular company officer and, I think, the ADC could serve as any of the more senior officers.
Just a suggestion but if you've bought a good number of the marching set you might be needing officers.
There was some debate on the HaT forum and other forums regarding the Sapper. Apparently Landwehr battalions didn't have attached sappers or pioneers, they only had blokes with axes who could clear obstacles and construct makeshift defences. You may have to blackball my application to join the button counters club because I can't see the difference. I think it's a good, useful figure and I certainly ordered one.
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Post by Graeme on Oct 17, 2017 2:41:48 GMT
Max. Use the same G-Mail address used when ordering your sets. Here's a link to the crowdfunding page. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the link that says "Indicate here how many marching and action sets you want".( it's just above the paypal link you used to order your sets). The link will take you to the correct G-Mail to leave your message and you should get an e-mail reply confirming your order in a day or so. www.hat.com/Crowd2.html
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Post by Graeme on Oct 11, 2017 1:22:53 GMT
This must mean that there is interest in this colourful period. Back in the days before HaT made their 7YW sets, any time the 7YW was mentioned on the forum the responses went off the page. I felt like I was the only one not asking for them. So there is considerable interest out there. These days I'd be interested in any sets that would fit in with the Jacobite Rebellion (dragoons and artillery are needed) or maybe the French Indian Wars. Of course I don't mind if HaT goes over the same old boring ground of even more Napoleonics as well.
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Post by Graeme on Oct 10, 2017 12:42:07 GMT
"Downfall" was a most remarkable and fascinating film, and Ganz was excellent. "Cross of Iron", fabulous film. A real sense of realism to that one. I think the biggest problem with "The Pacific" was it was shown after "Band of Brothers", which people compared it to. Looked at in it's own light it's great. I think the same goes for "Gods and Generals" and "Gettysberg" I was going to mention "Aces High" and "The Red Baron". Perhaps neither will be voted best film ever made but they were enjoyable and the planes are beautiful. "The Aviator" was a good film, I liked the Katherine Hepburn characterisation. I'm happy to watch anything with WWI biplanes in it. Same goes for WWII Royal Navy films. "The Cruel Sea" is perhaps the best but I also have "In Which We Serve", "Battle of the River Plate", "Sink the Bismark" and I'd also put "Malta Story" in this category. I'm always on the lookout for any other 50's/60's titles in this vein. I see "The Long and the Short and the Tall" listed. Great play, and as I recall the film was a very good adaptation. I recently picked up the DVD for $10 so I'll be able to watch it again. At the same time, and same price, I got Chauvel's 1941 film "Forty Thousand Horsemen" but I haven't watched it yet. This is the original film about the Light Horse at Beersheba and it's kind of movie Royalty here. Patriotism forces me to mention Canada’s deHaviland Dash8 in the beautiful,plane category... Ah yes, the Dash8. That's the one with the wing over the cabin tube. and the engines mounted under the wing, and the landing gear that comes out of the engine cowlings. Which means, if you're sitting in one of the seats under the wing you can look out of your window while the plane's coming in to land and see the flames and smoke coming of the tyres when the wheels hit the tarmac ... That's a great first time experience. Fully agree about the Spitfire. There just aren't enough films with Spitfires in them.
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Post by Graeme on Oct 8, 2017 2:20:58 GMT
Agreed Steve, that Stuka at the end was the one piece of gung ho b.s. that really stretched credulity, but by that stage I was ready for it. I'd had more than enough of those nasty little beggars and someone really needed to fry one of them.
As for being disappointing after all the hype, to be honest "Dunkirk" really wasn't the film I expected it to be. So I just watched the film that it was instead.
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Post by Graeme on Oct 7, 2017 17:36:07 GMT
Very nice job on the very tricky problem of painting all white uniforms.
Very realistic looking figures and they look great En Masse.
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Post by Graeme on Oct 7, 2017 17:07:44 GMT
Yes! Kicking myself. Ironsides posted "The African Queen" while I was typing my list. I should have included that, one of the all time classics. Good call on "Beneath Hill 60" too, great film. I was going to mention "Dunkirk" too. WARNING, don't read further if you haven't seen it yet. Of course the rivet buttoners on all the forums found every fault that completely passed me by when I watched the film but I went to see this with my Sister. She doesn't have any interest in military history and doesn't like war films. Most women don't. At the end of this film she told me "That might be the best film I've seen". Because for the vast majority of normal people out there who can't tell a PIAT from a pilum that film just did a very good job of putting this important story across. I've read some minor gripes (not really criticism) about the ships. Apparently this director doesn't like using CGI, he prefers using real ships and planes. And apparently he didn't use the correct types of ships that were actually at Dunkirk. Well, given the fact that the correct types of ships that were actually at Dunkirk were all broken up for scrap and recycled into coffee pots some time last century I think he's got an excuse. I've heard Other criticisms, "It didn't show the Battle of France", "It Didn't show the Germans", "It didn't show the French", "it didn't show 300,000 troops on the beach". Who cares? I liked the way it focused on one small incident over a short period of time and showed us that incident from the perspective of several different small groups of people. We saw the struggle to get off the beach in microcosm and the bigger picture was inferred. It was clever and a bit different, and that's good. I liked the way the only evidence we had of the Germans was the sound of the bullets that killed all the other blokes in a mans section, or Stukas screaming out of the sky to drop bombs on a pier full of men who have nowhere to run. Detached, impersonal, and very, very menacing. Not soldiers, not an army, just death engulfing you from out of nowhere. And one scene at the beginning shows us French troops manning a barricade. One gesture and the look on a Frenchman's face tells us everything we need to know about French troops defending the perimeter of Dunkirk and does it brilliantly. it couldn't have been done better in fifty scenes. Great film. On the subject of button riveting the one thing I pulled the film up about was the fact that the Spit. pilots were waiting for the enemy planes to come into their sights before firing instead of pulling a lead on them. Every time we got into position I pressed the firing button on my air joystick and was most frustrated to find my eight synchronised Brownings seemed to be on a five second time delay. Did it spoil my enjoyment of the film? No it just added to the tension so it was, unintentionally, quite a good cinematic device.
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Post by Graeme on Oct 7, 2017 15:10:01 GMT
The trouble with this thread is I'm always kicking myself over the things I forget to put on my list. But at least it's a chance to include the important one I left out last time. So: Waterloo. This would, I think, be confusing to anyone who doesn't know the story but it's my all time favourite because..., well because it's WATERLOO! And because it's done on a monumental scale and looks magnificent. One of the films I watch at least once every year. Master and Commander, if this thread was the most accurate film this would be top of the list. Best depiction of a 19th Century warship ever. Yes I can find some inaccuracies but they're not anything a normal human being is going to worry about. Gettysburg. Another magnificent looking film on a monumental scale. Happily I'm not well enough informed to find anything this film got wrong. As to what it got right? The big Hollywood blockbusters with 50 million dollars worth of CGI can't come close to the brilliance of the battle scenes that this film achieves, on a shoestring budget, with an army of reenactors and some just plain clever camera work. Das Boot. Another for the most accurate list. This film really made me feel like I was in a tin can, 20 fathoms down, having high explosives dropped on me and waiting to be crushed to death by a million tons of water. Sound like your idea entertainment? Watch "Das Boot". Saving Private Ryan. The opening sequence was shown to some D-Day Veterans who said it was difficult to watch because it was like being back there. Nuff said. The rest of the film explored really interesting ethical dilemmas (Yes really, because it's a film not a WWII documentary)."Windtalkers" also did well with regard to ethical questions but the perpetually filled magazines meant it fell down on realism stakes. Catch 22. A work of genius. Buster Keatons "The General", a work by a genius. The Marx Brothers "Duck soup", as above but there's three of them (and Zeppo). Why are those last two on my list of best War Films? because they are two of the best films that will ever be made and they just happen to be set in war time. The Duelists. Fabulous quirky storyline and visually stunning. 2 All time classics that can't be left off anyone's list; Battle of Britain. Zulu. Also: "The Cruel Sea", "Damn the Defiant", "Culloden"," Kokoda" and I enjoyed "The Eagle" and "Centurion", there was a cute Druid in one of those. Good calls on "All Quiet on the Western Front", "Paths to Glory" and "Oh What a Lovely War". Great thread
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Post by Graeme on Oct 5, 2017 17:52:30 GMT
Very fine looking troops Mateus, I like the muted shade of brown on the jackets. I have to agree with Steve, the faces are nicely done. The bases look good too. And I do like the look of soldiers advancing with the bayonet like that.
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Post by Graeme on Oct 5, 2017 17:37:51 GMT
Well there's hundreds of people reading the threads, or maybe it's just one person reading the threads hundreds of times. But they're just not commenting.
I suppose if you read each thread hundreds of times you really don't have time to comment. So he's got an excuse, but the hundreds of people who only read the threads once haven't. (both possibilities actually exist in parallel until we get a post from Schroedinger's dead cat).
I could threaten to talk nonsense until someone writes something sensible if anyone thinks that might help.
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Post by Graeme on Sept 30, 2017 3:01:44 GMT
Yes I remember this one, a bustling scene with a real sense that things are about to happen.
Good looking figures, excellent weathered appearance of the tanks and they sit within the beautiful scenery just perfectly.
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Post by Graeme on Sept 30, 2017 2:36:02 GMT
Great post Gerd, I really enjoyed seeing those pictures. A very fine turn out from everyone involved and it looks like everyone had a good time. I'd like to go and see the Waterloo weekend for myself one year but I really appreciate it when people post pics of the events that I missed. I'm slowly going to work my way back through your links with a translator. Can't think of a better way to spend the time while I'm waiting for my Landwehr to arrive.
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Post by Graeme on Sept 22, 2017 3:37:35 GMT
I'd rather not know so I don't count.
But in non specific terms: How many figures do I have? Not enough. How many non painted figures do I have? Too many!... but still not enough.
Yes, I did just buy 5 more boxes. I should paint 5 figures to compensate.
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Post by Graeme on Sept 19, 2017 11:25:37 GMT
The goths look good and very warlike.Nice pictures on the blog.
These are very colourful soldiers but I think Your choice of colours with the darker shades works well for an ancient army. The folds in the clothing look good and I really like the hand painted shields.
The Roman walls in the background are great too.
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Post by Graeme on Sept 16, 2017 15:52:07 GMT
Steve. The question you need to ask is do you have unpainted figures you can work on while you wait for the restock. I know I have. I checked out this listing on E-bay. The starting price in Australian Dollars is $42.50 and the postage $29.10. If these are that rare in the UK do you think I could swap a couple of boxes for a cottage in Ambleside?
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Post by Graeme on Sept 16, 2017 2:32:25 GMT
A very formidable and exotic looking army. And yes, they do look good in battle array.
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Post by Graeme on Sept 14, 2017 3:12:21 GMT
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Post by Graeme on Sept 12, 2017 16:36:57 GMT
A Nile cruise nice!
The armies look good and I do like that paddle wheeler.
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Post by Graeme on Sept 12, 2017 16:10:46 GMT
Annoying? Well not for me. I managed to buy the Nassauers off the shelf at a local store. And, when they were restocked I bought some more. If I find out I haven't got enough I'm sure they will come around again.
For those of you that didn't manage to get them I can only hope that when the next restock happens that the panic buyers have already got their ten boxes.
I am a bit irritated when I can't buy a set from another company because they won't restock it. And I'm disappointed when I missed a set from a company that can't restock because their moulds are not reusable. But companies like HaT and Italeri that actually restock their figures have my approval.
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Post by Graeme on Sept 11, 2017 3:42:18 GMT
I suspect the Nassauers might be reissued in the not too distant future because a lot of people have been asking for them. Which means they won't be rare at all. Until they sell out again, which might be 5 minutes after they reach the shops
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Post by Graeme on Sept 11, 2017 3:16:15 GMT
Yes, according to Haythornethwaite's "Uniforms of Waterloo" the 28th Infantry (1st battalion) retained the stovepipe shako. Stovepipes were also worn by: The Light Infantry regiments, the 51st, 52nd and 71st (highland dicing on the 71st's shako). The 95th Rifles (1st & 2nd battalions + 2 co.s of 3rd). The 1st & 2nd Light Battalions of the Kings German Legion (rifles style uniforms). The Hanoverian Light Battalions, Luneburg and Grubenhagen (the Grubenhagen Battalion had a peakles conical shako). And, the Hanoverian Landwehr Battalions, Bremervorde, Osnabruk, Quckenbruk, Salzgitter, Nienburg, Hoya, Bentheim, Hameln, Gifhorn, Hildesheim, Peine, Verden, Luneburg, Osterode, and Munden. If you haven't seen this already heres a good online source for Waterloo. For uniforms click on Unites/Nations and then chose from the sub menu at top left: centjours.mont-saint-jean.com/
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