Battle-Ready Bocage from Warlord Games

Murphy, I think I can understand the rancor. While I do see new products being trashed from time to time, I also sometimes see terrible reproductions of historic items (models of vehicles, soldiers, equipment, buildings and terrain) over-praised when they are off the mark. There's a danger to unqualified praise of any manufacturer's products, especially when inaccurate, in my view.

First of all the product is very beautiful, there is no disputing that. But it appears, from my own research (see later) to most definitely not be representative of typical bocage.

We are not talking about someone who has proudly displayed his own work but a company that wishes to sell something that it claims to represent an historic entity. I think when a company, or even an individual, sells a product that purports to accurately model something they have a responsibility to get it right. The consumer should be able to assume the manufacturer knows what it's talking about when the consumer buys a model of a Cessna aircraft, a Tiger tank, the Cathedral Notre Dame, or bocage. For example, I learned to identify aircraft at a young age by model making. I learned what a DC-9 was because the model I made of it was reasonably accurate.

Not that mine are perfect but in 2002 or so I was able to find a lot of decent pictures on line and folks here helped too. Here is a great reference that guided me complete with a typical cross section:

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As to the challenge to show one's work if one criticizes, while I hope you know I have loads of respect for you, I don't think that's a valid response.
I don't think I need to do it to support my arguments above but here're my efforts a decade plus ago. They suck by the standards of some great TMP artists these days and I see some inaccuracies – I should have hade the walls more overgrown. But OTOH, I'm not selling these to people as accurate models:

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Tim