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08-22-23, 01:58 PM | #211 |
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Yes he would - I did tickle a little bit of colour into his 'tache since it's a generous one
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08-28-23, 06:23 AM | #212 |
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Lone Star
Lone Star warrior king from the same 'Harvey' series. Normally this figure will have a chewed sword, so here's one that hasn't - also a link to two of the knights in armour from the series I posted already: https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...1&postcount=43
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09-10-23, 05:26 AM | #213 |
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Cherilea Toys
My favourite figure from Cherilea's Elizabethan set. There's a similar group of cavaliers and roundheads from the English Civil War, all in dynamic and dramatic poses - mainly fencing
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09-10-23, 07:12 AM | #214 |
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Cherilea Toys
Repainted!
Monty - one-eyed, battle-worn and in need of a repaint. I know some folks believe you should leave original paint alone - even if there's hardly any of it left - but I don't like looking at a scruffy figure, especially when he's a general Rommel is in my toy box too, somewhere, so I'll re post when they've beem smartened up
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09-10-23, 10:30 AM | #215 |
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Beg pardon sire, but wasn't he a "Field Marshal"? The Damn Yankees were ''over there, over paid! and over sexed" and had to create the 5-star 'General of the Army' rank to stay equal to the British rank in SHEAF dealings; particularly when Eisenhower picked Monty to hold the northern shoulder of the Ardennes over 4-star Omar Bradley against the German's Battle-of-the-Bulge futile thrust on Antwerp as 4-star Patton advanced from the south into the German left flank...
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09-10-23, 10:57 AM | #216 |
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^ Well he was technically a field marshal but essentially also a general - just as his opponent Rommel was a "generalfeldmarschall"
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09-12-23, 08:05 AM | #217 |
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Cherilea Toys
I found Rommel hiding behind a sand dune along with a couple of surrendering Afrika Korps. The one on the left ts pretty mediocre but The Desert Fox himself is worth a repaint I think
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09-12-23, 08:47 AM | #218 |
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Looks like James Mason to me.
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09-12-23, 10:46 AM | #219 |
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Did you clock the monocle? And he does look like JM now you mention it
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10-21-23, 11:55 AM | #220 |
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...nonsense; that's what he looked like after inbibing the cyanide capsule!??...his blue Max does need touching up though!
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10-23-23, 01:23 AM | #221 |
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Didn't know Rommel had a Blue Max, thought those were only for flyers for some reason.
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11-24-23, 03:52 PM | #222 |
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You'll probably get a kick out of this:
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11-27-23, 01:06 AM | #223 |
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Never thought of Russians as being people who would be particularly interested in toy soldiers, but then I didn't think they'd be interested in making something as great as the IL-2 Sturmovik flight sim either.
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11-27-23, 09:31 AM | #224 | |
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Most of the non pilot recipients of the Blue Max were Generals and staff officers. Only a handful of junior ranking ranking officers like Rommel ever received it and those were awarded for extreme badassedness. Rommels book "Infantry Attacks" (Rommel I read your book!) detail some amazing acts of bravery and initiative. The dude was one heck of a junior combat leader.
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11-27-23, 12:12 PM | #225 |
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Straightforward is one word!!? I 'boned-up' on The Blue Max watching George Peppard and Ursula Andress play wargames...the main plot of which was: Bruno Stachel wouldn't be on the A-team(still on TV!) unless he won the damn thing!
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