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Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 6:56 pm
by RMD
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 7:09 pm
by ochoin
RMD wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 5:41 pm
goat major wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 2:39 pm
Are they a total waste or convertable somehow ?
A total waste. Very much holding the standard in front of them and not really convertible to an NCO with spontoon or somesuch.
This is precisely why I hate companies selling 'unit packs' or grouping command figures in with the rank-and-file, as it means you've then got no bloody flexibility whatsoever and end up with shitloads of figures that you can't use (and don't get me started on standard-bearers for cavalry regiments that never had standards). I've still got over a dozen Prussian grenadier standard-bearers from when Old Glory sold them as packs of 100.
A dozen excess figures.....seems to be a minor problem. As a collector of plastic figures, I have quite a large box of hundreds of "stabbing down" etc figures I'll never use. I thought such flotsam was a part of the hobby.
And could a head swop turn said grenadier ensigns into much more useful Line ensigns? Again, a whole lot easier with plastic.
donald
(apologies about the Rugby posts: it's a form of madness....)
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 9:58 pm
by Etranger
ochoin wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 9:59 am
...
Charlie Cameron (ET will know whom I'm talking about) was a lovely boy who pretty well hated school but luckily found his niche in professional sport.
donald
He's done well & seems to indeed be a nice guy.
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 10:08 pm
by Etranger
RMD wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 5:41 pm
I've still got over a dozen Prussian grenadier standard-bearers from when Old Glory sold them as packs of 100.
You could field a full regiment of Grenadier standard bearers, just to watch the splutterings of outrage it produces.
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:05 pm
by Essex Boy
valleyboy wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 6:49 pm
I'm from the wargamers' licence school of thought that says "Every wargames unit needs a standard bearer and the bigger the flags the better - stuff historical accuracy" excuse
Clearly, a family trait.
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 1:00 am
by grizzlymc
Etranger wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 10:08 pm
RMD wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 5:41 pm
I've still got over a dozen Prussian grenadier standard-bearers from when Old Glory sold them as packs of 100.
You could field a full regiment of Grenadier standard bearers, just to watch the splutterings of outrage it produces.
Or cut the standards down to a scale foot, add a bit of greenstuff and paint up the Wankel Grenadiers, HMS Priapus eat your heart out.
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 2:05 am
by Shahbahraz
I may have accidentally started a force for Dux Brittaniurom with an eBay win... oops.
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 9:17 am
by garyp
Warlord's buy 2 get a 3rd free offer included the very nice Cutting Edge Achaeans. So I bought a few. Ok, I bought a lot . . . .
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 11:22 am
by BaronVonWreckedoften
Yes, I saw that one, too. Bought some WW2 French packs that Crusader don't make (sniper/light mortar, command with medic and radio, etc).
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 5:33 pm
by Shahbahraz
and I seem to have accidentally bought some more SRB/Arthurian figures off ebay. i can feel a Dux Britanniarum coming on.
