"French eagles, and British colour spikes?" Topic

Can anyone tell me where I can buy – in the USA – eagles for the colour stafts of French infantry; and the spear points and cords for British infantry colours?

For 28-30mm figures.

I am working on Victrix plastics, and am using brass rods for the poles. I have paper flags/colours, but no eagles with cravattes, or spear points with cords for the british.

GdeP

Front Rank (U.K I'm afraid)

Scroll down to the bottom of the page in the link below.

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Paul :)

Does anyone do these for 1/72? Airfix-size figures?

Triangle Miniatures in Raleigh NC carries the Front Rank flag parts. I've never ordered from them, only read about them on TMP.

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Casablanca does use the Romantic Triangle trope in its plot,but I'd argue that the theme is human redemption--the protagonist emerges from the story a better man,something infrequent in noir,whose "hero",if he survives,is often embittered,or at best,a little wiser to the "way of the world". I guess Maltese Falcon could be cited as an example,though even here, there's debate about its status as noir!

Some discussion from a few months ago:

TMP link

Say,where is The Shadow,anyway?

OH GOD, THE GLITCH. MY APOLOGIES. I MADE SUCH PROFOUND COMMENTS ABOUT THE PROBLEMS OF ORDERING FROM ABROAD. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS POOR CHAP IS ON ABOUT…………ALL I WANTED TO SAY IS THAT FIGHTING 15S ARE GREAT FOR OZ AB FIGS, BUT WHEN WILL I GET ACCESS TO BRIGADE MINIATURES IN UK?

Don't know about postage cost to USA but the Front rank Eagles and flag heads are very good quality, I use them a lot and they mount really well on brass rods. (If you only order the eagles I think the amount of P and P will be acceptable, after all you do not need a hundred eagles, unless you want to do Napoleon's entire army

While on this subject of flagstaffs I seem to remember ( many years ago ) that somebody used to make 15mm Napoleonic Neapolitan standard-bearers , or perhaps only the standards , with the rampant/rearing horse on the filial.
I have been looking for these recently on the net but haven't been able to find them . They may be from a discontinued line .Can anybody help me with a contact ?
Eric

Dibble into the breach, as usual! Thanks you for this link.

And thank YOU, Ooh Rah, for the US supplier!

I have 6 40-figure Victrix 28 plastic British units for which I need spearpoints and cords for 12 colours.

GdeP

1/72. Use the new Italeri boxes as they come with three identical sprues so two too many per box. Transplant the eagle onto 0.8 brass wire. British spear points – I use the brass spears with ready sharpened points – Weat Wind maybe

Ooh Rah

Had a look at your link, and in fact Triangle Miniatures, Raleigh NC have them listed.

Paul :)

Glad I could help out in small return for all the help I have received in the past!

Yeah, best way to find 1/72 eagles is to get them from the overloaded kits. Marc is right about that.

Deadhead – The Maltese Falcon is certainly noir. I'll debate that all day long. But Casablanca? Are you kidding me? Just because there is sadness in the end, does NOT mean the film is noir. Funny though, how Bogie wears the same fedora and trench coat in both films.

Take it from me. I lived in Sam Spade's apartment in San Francisco for 16 years. Hammett's kin are pals of mine. Walking tours used to come through the place weekly. Believe me, I've heard every angle.

Send me an email at arneywilliam107@gmail.com and we'll take this to a more appropriate forum.

Widowson.

The first person singular, in the past imperfect passive of the verb to glitch…I had been glitched.

My message was nothing about Casablanca. That is some other poor devil. This forum does that.

I have a wife and two 21 year old sons who love that film. I think it is nonsense, but historically fascinating. There was not a single German soldier, not one, in North Africa where this was set, in Morocco, in WWII.

It is great propaganda, for the USA, but when the US and British units landed in Operation Torch, the only fire on Day One was from…well you know the rest……