And for now, it is not at all certain that the peg will be on the body. It could be the other way around and customers could have to drill their own holes. We'll leave that to the tooling guys to decide the best way to do this.
The same make-up for now, 2 elites and 4 fusiliers.
A bunch of heads, bicornes for the early French, elite shako, a bonnet de police, a Tarleton helmet and a covered fusilier shako. Plenty to choose from.
A close up of the backpacks, an elite backpack, the next one should be a drummer backpack (someone who doesn't need the ammo pouch because he doesn't have the musket), and 4 fusilier backpacks. I posted these for the 1815 dress uniforms but now I realize that the dress uniforms should only come with the plain backpacks and only these campaign dress guys should have the pots and pans on their back.
I think it's gonna be a very tight squeeze to get everything on the sprue, so probably no more than full sets of the bicorne and shakoes and just a few of the other ones, unless you guys are in love with the Tarleton helmets or something.
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Realy love the pots and pans :D thats the way I like it HäT! Whit these sets a plastic soldier dream becomes truth!
Keep up the good work!
Regards Stan
Instead of sacrificing heads isn't possible to have some of the backpacks with swords and the hanged box so people may cut off what they don't need? Its also possible to have the backpack and blanket apart and a pin/hole is easy to mould here. Just trying to keep all the heads while keeping the figures modular and costs as low as possible.
@Nuno, don't you remember what rule #1 is? :-)
@Nuno,
"...to have some of the backpacks with swords and the hanged box so people may cut off what they don't need?"
That isn't going to save anything, it's only going to take up more space. Why include sabre and ammo box if we don't need them? Only the few elites will have them, most backpacks won't.
Its a easy way to match all figures with backpacks if you provide extra heads and the proportion between backpacks and units type change :-)
Besides, as I'm short of Portuguese, cannot aford to lose the Tarletons ;-)
Just for clarification: the photos show two elites and four fusiliers. Is the reference to two elites and two fusiliers a typo?
I'm game to do some drilling but I don't know how the general market will react to that.
Otherwise they are looking good and I will be impatiently waiting for them to show up at retailers.
Hi - maybe the answer to these points of note is that at a later date in time when the success of this expanding Napoleonic range is achieved, hat could release boxes of spare parts. - Heads/shakos/bicornes /tarletons and so with extra weapons and arms and backpacks etc... - one for the British, another for the French, one for Austrian etc....Then the modellers and converters can make up what they want. In fact I have been doing these conversions on hat figures for some time already with other spare parts that I have accumulated from other makes of soldiers
Regards
9th
@Rahway, 2 and 4, thanks!
head change is gonna increase my great battalions
I prefer 1 piece figures. I will save my money and not buy figures with separate heads.
Sscott
@Scott, that's too bad! Buy them and I'll glue the heads on for you!
No, Hatblogger. I am serious. I will not buy figures with no heads. It's really sad for me because I only collect and paint 1/32 Napoleonic plastic soldiers, but I have no interest in headless figures. With my economic situation I have to make choises, and I choose not to buy.
I like the backpacks with pans and extra stuff on them it gives the figures a real on campaign look to them. How about some more packs like that with extra shoes,fire wood,food ect. and some drinking gourds and wine bottles ect. on the figures??? Maybe an extra plug in arm with stuff hanging off the musket like food or shoes and a couple of figures with tools, picks shovels that could be added to give the look of a collumn on the long march?
Some extra loose muskets in the set would be great also!!!
And were are all the dead and wounded figures???? How about a set of dead and wounded figures?
FISH!!!!
Did one of our many secret posters miss the point - the box would have heads in it, and we would attach them ourselves. I like that, each figure can be varied slightly, to help the overall look.
And "Fish!!!" - what does that mean?
Yes, I understand there will be heads in the box. I do not want to have to attach heads. Make them with a head attached and add extra heads on the sprue and I will buy. But if they come with no head attached I am not interested even though I am starved for good quality French.
Everyone here is free to express their own opinion and this is mine. And like Rob C has stated in another thread I am losing my excitment for toy soldiers. This blog has sucked all the fun out of it.
Sscott
I am happy with the task of putting heads on of my choice - no probs for me!
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