The Loose Association of Wargamers

Purple wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 8:35 am Anyone that says something silly like Airfix YMCA type poses will be taken into the special Féderic room to listen to Voltaire recitals and play nudist leapfrog.

So all 20mm figures are ruled out of this discussion ? Seems unfair.

For horse and musket type periods I prefer marching style poses for painting for you don’t get any problems with arms across crossbelts etc. Though a few 1970s Minifigs style bayonets at ready poses do look nice,

For WW2 I actually prefer a “on patrol, weapons at ready” style of pose. Usually more useful for most of the battle rather than running around blasting smgs in action poses.

All SMGs should be blasting away.

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Sun Jan 13, 2019 5:23 am

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 2:07 pm There's a Les Higgins WSS variant which is a most splendid marching figure. He's been dubbed 'The Yomper'. Probably my favourite pose of all time.

The Dixon 15mm Marlburian range has a little marching figure that sounds exactly the same. Couldn't get enough of them when I was younger. Sadly, also couldn't paint enough of them.....

I popped over to Dixon to see what you had in mind. No photographs. So disappointing when that happens.

Sad thing is, they have a very similar figure in their 25mm ranges, but no photograph of that either.

Photographs of your products in 2019, so overated.

"Hey, Steve!" That's it and that's all.

A good 'at the ready' pose, with the musket pointing out in front and up a bit, works for me. One foot ahead of the other helps them look like they're in motion, or just standing, to suit what they're actually doing.

H&M in a slightly varient march pose suits I think, although I do like SSM in identical march pose too. Ancient & native types in a variety of zipping along poses, modernish in whatever pose, it doesn't really matter. Cyclists in just 'fallen off' pose suits nicely.

Surely it's about time someone did a range of Macedonian pikemen in assorted skirmishing poses...

I like my Black Powder Officer types pointing. It suggests, “Go over there and kill those fellows please!”