Some new Nap French sculpts!

[quasar42]

I'm sure I spotted him in the American Civil War range!

Bring him back to the Napoleonic range! At the time there was some argument about the position of the musket, if I remember well. Far better to have a loader with a questionable musket position than no loader at all.

[Hertsblue]

I dont see why you would need a bigger catlg, there is plenty of space on the display page. Why would you need to do every range? The "customers" could provide the text (it would be fun) and also QA the results.

Adding an average of three lines to each entry would triple the number of pages required for the Napoleonics section.

Adding descriptions to other periods would be as helpful to potential customers as they would be to Napoleonics buyers. Why should Napoleonics be the only recepient? Or put it another way, if you do one you have to do them all. Your fifty-page catalogue then becomes one hundred and fifty pages long.

[Rob]

I'm sure I spotted him in the American Civil War range!

Ah Ha! Is it the same scupltor?
If that is the case does that mean we are are more likly to be succesful if we request a pose from one range that is not in the other? Such as the cavalry with carbine as mounted skirmishers?

[WeeWars]

Ah Ha! Is it the same scupltor?

Yes. Spot the difference:

[Rob]

Adding an average of three lines to each entry would triple the number of pages required for the Napoleonics section.

Adding descriptions to other periods would be as helpful to potential customers as they would be to Napoleonics buyers. Why should Napoleonics be the only recepient? Or put it another way, if you do one you have to do them all. Your fifty-page catalogue then becomes one hundred and fifty pages long.

Woh! Lots of negative vibes Ray!

Not sure why we are having this conversation as it is only we 2.  The idea seems to have absolutely no interest elsewhere as it has been resoundingly ignored      therefore anything we are saying is moot.

I think we may be at cross purposes as I suspect you are describing the catalogue that Leon emails to us, where as, I am referring to the website descriptions of the figures.

What was in my mind was to assist potential buyers and casual browsers to see a wider employment of what initially might seem a restricted time or geographic range or vice-versa to show there are some historical restrictions they may want to take account of.

Other examples would be the 1809 French Guard Chevauleger armed only with a sword which can be used in an 1810-15 Guard Chevauleger-Lancier unit as a rear rank figure,
Or,
As a vice-versa "Becker's" AFVs that had a combat history restricted to 6th June '44 to the end of August '44 and geographically to Normandy as part of the fascinating 21st Panzer.

This is all part of my personal crusade to block the club "pain-in-the-A***" from uttering (in his sqeaky no-it-all voice) "You do realise of course....."

Cheers, Rob 

[quasar42]

Perhaps an alternative option would be to open one or more threads in a relevant place of forum for alternative uses of figures? For the online catalog pictures seem the more pressing priority (although the Nap range is doing pretty well on that front)

[Leon]

Just to chime in on the extra info discussion, for the printed catalogue, a simple date range would have to be it I'd think, as we don't have the space in the catalogue.  So it'd be the code, description, and then (1809-1915), etc.  On the website, we can add more info, but I think there is a character limit which I'd have to check on.

[fsn]

Leon.

If your idea of a holiday is posting on this forum, then you're even sadder than I am.

Go and watch a sunset, enjoy a meal out with your family, paddle in the ocean. The world will not collapse if you leave us to our own devices for a week.  Well, I'm reasonably sure the world won't end if you leave us to our own devices for a week. Say 85%?

Take a proper break man, and leave the forum alone. Then when you come back refreshed and reinvigorated, you can get the Centurion in the catalogue.

<Centurion now placed one shelf higher in the casting dungeon>

[Leon]

I haven't gone yet unfortunately!  We fly on Saturday afternoon, so you'll have to put up with me for a little longe.

[WeeWars]

On the subject of 1809 sculpts that got away, I bumped into this pic in a 2010 post on another forum.



Goes with:

[Rob]

I wonder what the two seated figures are supposed to be riding.  Or are they just good friends. 

[NTM]

I wonder what the two seated figures are supposed to be riding.  Or are they just good friends. 

They would go on the limber/caisson

[Steve J]

Looks like they are on a space hopper .

[Fenton]

Looks like they are on a space hopper .

when will the sculptors ever get this right!...It is obviously an 1812 space hopper while the troops are 1809!...I despair

[Steve J]