| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 01 Sep 2009 10:21 a.m. PST |
Bought it this week, it's good!(Apart from the WW1 in the title) |
| The Jim Jones Cocktail Hour | 01 Sep 2009 10:53 a.m. PST |
Bloody awful colour plates though. I browsed a copy today. |
| carolusone | 01 Sep 2009 9:53 p.m. PST |
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| Big Martin | 02 Sep 2009 4:55 a.m. PST |
I keep looking at it in the local Waterstones and Caliver Books' stall but am put off by the plates. |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 02 Sep 2009 12:00 p.m. PST |
Having carefully modelled tent-rolls (based on multiple sources) on my 10mm Belgians for IRREGULAR I am less than thrilled (No they won't easily trim off…) that said I have photo of MG team is Yser caps with similar looking rolls on their packs although seemingly darker in colour? |
| carolusone | 02 Sep 2009 1:34 p.m. PST |
The backpacks introduced from 1915 (with the Yserkepi)did have rolls. The ones worn in 1914 did not. The rolls stopped access to the spare ammunition holders which were on the side of the 1896 type packs. |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 02 Sep 2009 1:53 p.m. PST |
I hate it when this happens. My main source was a colour photo of a modern model wearing surviving items of kit!!! That said, on 10mms the pale rolls do make a nice contrast to the rest of the miniatures which would otherwise look rather uniformly dark… |
| carolusone | 03 Sep 2009 7:39 a.m. PST |
Coopersteve you're in good company. Both Mollo and Füncken got it wrong (and some 28 mm brands…..) |
| Karl 72 | 10 Sep 2009 1:24 p.m. PST |
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| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 26 Sep 2009 6:49 a.m. PST |
Yeah but that means the first range to get this right will be The Best One. I was rather enjoying it being mine (he said humbly) |
| jgawne | 30 Sep 2009 9:25 a.m. PST |
Go look at the reenactor material at schipperfabriik.com. Paul has done a lot of work with the Belgium National Army museum in getting things correct, so his stuff is as good as you are going to get unless you can find really good originals (such as at that museum). I took a great interst in Belgium WW1 after I found out my new sister in law's family played some pretty decent roles in the Army (one winning the order of Leopold!) |
adds a machinegun platoon to his WWI Brits.
