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BepBarb Sponsoring Member of TMP writes:

My dear 9th Maine, I respect your authority on the subject, but I've a pair of observations to offer you:
1) The only books in which I blindly believe are the four Gospel. Expecially when we talk about a transictional time in armaments and/or equipments like was the Vienna's one, I prefer to believe not to anyone who firmly declares "from this day that was in use and that wasn't more"; Just to furnish a practical example about it (that can be verified without problems) the modern U.S and all the western armies (included the italian one) officially start to adopt the PASGT helmet from the mid-1980's, but the italian army still used the WWII helmets too at least till the mid-1990's….
2) on the "practical side" then, the fact is not that the figures design is mine so I can do it like I want: I see very often that someone forgets that we're talking about wargames miniatures in a 15mm scale, not of collectors figures in 54/75/120mm. I'm myself a wargamer since the year 1980 and for me the very important thing's always be to have a figure well proportionate, well sculpted, with clear details to be painted easily, and enough resistant to get not broken while I play with it. I tell it by myself that on my figures even the number of the buttons on the coats is not correct, but, in the end, who's care? Have you read any observation about it? They're just wargames figures in 15mm and their first aim is to be used to simulate a particular kind of troop on the wargame table, not to win a prize in a model soldiers collectors' contest. Just as example, a couple of years ago I've seen in an Impetus Tournaments a gamer that did play using a roman army that in reality was a Zulu one!!! He simply explained to his adversaries what every unit on the table represented and played like this.
Not less important then, is the fact that to cast a 15mm figure the Physics and the casting rules have to be considerated, and I can assure you that in this scale is already difficult to cast the pole of the musket rest if you want it of acceptable proportions. Even on the Osprey's campaigs volume on the siege of Vienna there's an illustration of an Imperial soldier with the swedish feather, but unless I sculpt a telegraph pole (and wargamers don't want to have figures with arms and/or equipments that resemble telegraph poles…), how can cast it on a 15mm firing figures? I could even do it, but you'll have a very brittle thing that will get broken in a very short time if you want use them to play. So, to definitely close the story, this is how the things are and I won't explain it anymore. The range's just begun, new codes will be added if you'll have the patience to wait for them, so if you think that these figures aren't good for you, simply don't buy them.
Thanks for reading.


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BepBarb Sponsoring Member of TMP of Legio Heroica writes:

I'm happy to announce the release of my new 15mm range: Vienna 1683 – The Imperial Army.

Dragoon command

Eight new codes (three of cavalry, four of infantry, and one of artillery) are now available, and new ones will be added in the next months.

Infantry command

Infantry firing line

You can see the details and pictures by visiting my website.

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