deadhead | 30 Apr 2019 8:55 a.m. PST |
Four new releases today. German firing line soldiers of the Austrian Army, both in shako and helmet. I do love to see a firing line, with figures in all the poses involved in loading and firing. Only one missing is the use of the ramrod, but I guess that would break up the visual symmetry of a rank of soldiers….or maybe it is too hard to model in metal one piece casting…it is rarely attempted.
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79thPA | 30 Apr 2019 9:19 a.m. PST |
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Artilleryman | 30 Apr 2019 11:09 a.m. PST |
Interesting comments on these excellent figures Deadhead. The Perrys are usually to be relied upon to produce ramrod users. |
deadhead | 30 Apr 2019 11:11 a.m. PST |
Now this is weird. I went through Perry French range. I found one figure using his ramrod. One….many a firing line, whether National Guard or Line Infantry….but only one actually pushing the ball down into the barrel! This may be an unpopular pose and, again, it may spoil the look of a firing line. I must go through the rest of the range. Firing line seems less popular anyway (is that a wargamer thing?) but generally these chaps seem like Lawrence Harvey at the Alamo. Watch how many shots he gets off, seconds before he dies, (and not of a gunshot wound to the head), without reloading once.
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Perry Miniatures | 30 Apr 2019 11:51 a.m. PST |
Hello, I don't think ramming is an unpopular pose, it's just a perfect mould-ripper if the bayonet is fixed and the infantryman is in the proper drill position… that's all really. So if the bayonets are fixed (which they should be) there won't be many ramming. |
rustymusket | 30 Apr 2019 12:24 p.m. PST |
I learned something, thanks. I am going to buy some of the helmeted figs. I have been waiting years for more poses than Wargames Foundry has for their helmeted Napoleonic Austrians. I was hoping for at least a loading pose and maybe a kneeling pose. (I know that kneeling was not part of the drill, but it probably happened at some point. Look at the Ospreys.) Thanks for the figs! |
deadhead | 30 Apr 2019 12:24 p.m. PST |
That is exactly what I meant and I must thank you for your response. I think it is great that you take the trouble to do so. A "mould-ripper" is a term I will remember and it is what I was trying to express, without the gift of expert knowledge. Even in the British plastics, where the option is there, it is one pose I found really hard to reproduce.
I like mould-ripper. I can see that…..brilliant response
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wrgmr1 | 30 Apr 2019 2:22 p.m. PST |
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Artilleryman | 30 Apr 2019 3:16 p.m. PST |
It is funny but looking over my shelves, I have Perry figures using their ramrods in my French, British, Dutch-Belgian, Russian and Bavarian forces. Until it was mentioned, I did not think there was anything special or rare about them. Yet another day when my perspective changes. |
Footslogger | 30 Apr 2019 4:12 p.m. PST |
I have just been painting a lot of Austrians to get my army up to a point where I could call it "finished". And now you spring these on me. Grumble grumble. And expect an order. |
79thPA | 01 May 2019 5:41 a.m. PST |
Well, you can never have enough Austrians … |
Flashman14 | 01 May 2019 4:45 p.m. PST |
For those who tire of Peninsula and Waterloo skirmish games, these facilitate a new theatre entirely. |
Markconz | 02 May 2019 5:02 p.m. PST |
Excellent release! I would like to see an officer variants pack for the Austrians too (as exists for the French), though that may be hoping for a bit much perhaps. Would be good to add a bit of variety to the units. |
Footslogger | 04 May 2019 8:59 a.m. PST |
+1 for pack of variant officers. I have had to use other manufacturers to introduce variety – surely the Perrys would rather I didn't have to? |
Lord Hill | 04 May 2019 3:37 p.m. PST |
Amazing figs as always. I particularly love the loading guy in the greatcoat – impressive walrus tache! |
Glencairn | 06 May 2019 9:27 a.m. PST |
Lord Hill, I think he's meant to be a sapper, given the square, baggy pockets on the apron. Then again, I can't see the handle of his hatchet which is supposed to be attached to his backpack and sticking up..am a little confused about that particular figure. |
deadhead | 06 May 2019 9:51 a.m. PST |
Now that was an impressive spot….I missed it completely. I took both figures to be in greatcoats. But now I see there is no opening down the front. This is indeed a one piece apron. So he is a pioneer strictly speaking, rather than an engineer. The upper one indeed has summat sticking up…an axe I guess indeed. Neither has the full beard I would have expected in British or French Army, but may well be right for Austrians.
They are great castings. As for the use of the ramrod, few and far between, as explained. There are the occasional chaps with their musket grounded and their fingertips over the muzzle, but they are dropping in the ball. The ramrod is still in the musket
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