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Post by CorporalTrim on Sept 29, 2004 1:30:23 GMT
Karoliners, Great Northern War, Regiments of France, Wild Geese, the older "flat" Eriksson figures, Battle of Rossbach: how many others here like to collect these ? What armies have you made ? Do you wargame with your figures, or just do it for the enjoyment of casting and painting them ?
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Post by PanTeoMax on Oct 9, 2004 8:55:30 GMT
I made to my children - following their instructions - 970 Karoliner-figures: half of them are from the Swedish-Finnish army of Charles XII, the other half is naturally the Russian army of Peter I The Great. Both armies have three batallions (according the instructions from the Karoliner-page): one firing, one advancing and one marching. They also have four squadrons of attacing cavalry and one marching squadron. Both side has also a six-piece artillery battery with supporting infantry and two guns with limbers etc. on march. They play with them. Batallions and squadrons move with dice. They shoot the armies with small rubber bands as rifles and with slowly rolling squash balls as cannon balls. Only trouble is the time: a battle takes time 2-3 days...  After their carefully instructions a batallion has four companies which have their uniforms and flags from different regiments. ( ie. one company is from Dal, second from Kalmar etc.) The Karoliner-series is very good & it doesn´t need more moulds. A very good idea could be add more flags and uniforms of different regiments e.g. in Prince August -pages: some Swedish and Finnish uniforms during the Great Northern War were very hard to find  |
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Post by CorporalTrim on Oct 13, 2004 1:56:14 GMT
That's great, PanTeoMax ! 970 figures cast and painted: I salute you !!  Tell me, do you have any photos of these giant armies ? If so, I'd really like to see it, if you followed the instructions on the Karoliner page with this many figures, that has to be a most impressive sight.  I have to disagree with you on whether or not more Karoliner molds are needed. So long as you stick to the Swedes, things are fine. However, in this era they were the only army to wear coats with turnbacks, collars and small cuffs. The GNW molds are good, but there are few. What we need is more infantry in the coats without cuffs and the more widespread appearance of the War of the Spanish Succession. Then we could model French, English, Dutch and the other armies with more accuracy. I'm not entirely satisfied with the Karoliner cavalry either. The main pose troopers wearing coats with turnbacks at the full-gallop charge, again this is fine for the Swedes, not so good for other armies. Some other poses such as with the horse standing, walking or trotting would add much-needed variety. Some of the older series of Erikkson molds do have more static horse poses though, but I can't seem to get such good casts from these. Perhaps my technique is at fault. |
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Post by miniatures on Apr 5, 2007 20:43:24 GMT
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Post by Christopher on Jul 5, 2009 11:41:35 GMT
hallo PA gives interesting for 40mm napoleonic molds or ACW please start a qoute
greetings Christopher
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stand2
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Post by stand2 on Jul 10, 2009 12:45:56 GMT
hallo PA gives interesting for 40mm napoleonic molds or ACW please start a qoute greetings Christopher .........yes ACW will work well in 40 mm , PA have a think about this?? |
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