"More unlikely Osprey titles (Part 2)" Topic

Man at arms – The modern retail worker
Elite series – Customer service retail worker

Men at arms series – Guantanamo detainees

Weapons series – the Polish infantry spoon, 1935-1939

ELITE- 'Soldiers of the ACW who were actually proportioned like Dixon Minis'

Agtfos, its about time that the Polish spoon book was released – we did a lot of work on that at the time!

I know I'm a bit late on this one but…

Robes of the Ku Klux Klan

British Soccer Hooligans (1) Manchester United

Pin clasps of the Third Reich

Hitler's Kitchen Staff (tell me they didn't wear a uniform!)

Campaign: Edible food at School Cafeteria

Uniforms of the Naughty Catholic Schoolgirl – oh wait, I think Playboy already published that one :)

Wellington's Army's Cobblers

Weapons series 345,765: Tie Clips of the Matabele Tribes.
Elite 23456: Tellytubby Elite assault Infantry (1999-2006)

The saga of Dave Hollins supposed work on Marengo in hardback, possibly retitled the never ending story.

From the North

New Vanguard Ice Cream Vans of Glasgow 1970-1990

Campaign 2000000 'Shrub and the false prospectous war' tag line 'Tony Blair's relationship with the US President in 2000's'

I believe this was published by Military Modelling who were April fooled into it, it woulf be a MAA now 'Cuff titles of SS-Feldpostmenn'

TTFN

John FoA

How about "Ho Chi Minhs (ie sandals made with car and truck tires for soles) of North Vietnamese general officers?"
Far too many pages revealing how sandals made from unused snow tires were full dress items for divisional commanders and above.

Elite # 777-3: Rear-Area Rural Peasantry of the USSR, Cold War Era

Elite # 666-6: Low-Tech Farmboys/girls of the U.S.A., WW1 Era

Elite # 333-19: Jameni, American Unemployed Geek, Modern Era

We've come up with several..

Campaign: Great Mexican Victories of the 20th Century
Elite: Bavaran Nuns of the Wahehe War, 1887-1898
Elite: Machiavellian HMGS BOD Members, Volumes 1-4
Elite: Camp Followers, and the VD They Spread
Volume 1: The New World
Volume 2: The Old World
Volume 3: Detroit, Gary Indiana, and Brighton
Volume 4: Baltimore
Men-at-Arms: Working Dogs of War, Lazy Cats of Nobility
Warrior: San Marinese Rifleman, 1914-1918
Osprey Elite: The Theban Sacred Band, Vol2:
Leisuretime Activities
(With illustrations by Angus McBride)

And, finally…

Osprey Essential Histories: Romania's Legitimate Claims to Transylvania (Three hundred blank pages, one paragraph, no actual citations.)

Th Uniforms and Doctrine of
Santa's Little Helpers

I have just recieved word of an entire new Osprey series: "Supply Corps Heroes." The first two anticipated titles are #1 "Vietnam era Junior Officers in tropical polyester uniforms who charged enlisted men for equipment lost in combat." #2 "WWII German and Romanian Clerks in stolen boots intended for front line troops." Also in the works:"U.S. Naval speed typing Yoemnan and Storekeeper Cahmpions, V. 1 1894-1924."

Elite Series:
The Reichsmarschal Herman Goering: His life, His uniforms, His big trainset vols: 1-40

From the blurb:
'Meticulously researched material on the dress and habits of this important Nazi potentate. Including valuable photos of Goering's infamous jewel studded girdle and sandles, never before published photos of Goering in a toga, Goering slobbed out on opium in the final stages of the war etc.
During his years of research the author made history by being the first man imprisoned for stalking a dead person.'

German Maidens and Virgins of the Third Reich: The BdM 1933-1945 (Not that unlikely this one…)

A Health and Safety Guide to Al Qa'ida Brazilian Camouflage gear…

Elite 40K Evil Empire Troops: GW Redshirt Division

Elite 41K Evil Empire Troops: GW Blueshirt Division

Campaign 40K Wild Rumours War (I) The Next Codex

** All of this titles will have a special price that will be rise every month by a 20%**

Amusing piece in paper this am about wartime forger Van Meegeren. Apparently someone broke it to Goering in custody before he died that his Vermeer was not really by the Man from Delft and re reacting by looking like 'he'd discovered that there was evil in the world for the very first time'!

Shells of the Normandy beaches.

Anoraks of the military vehicle museums

Hillbilly Pickups vol.1

Elite- Big Brother Contestants 2001-2005

Campaign Series- Reality TV shows: The War against Good Taste

Elite: Uniforms of clueless re-enactors

Bigelow – As my elderly mother has been inflicted with Parkinson's Disease for the last three years and I have had to sort many things out for her, perhaps you will think before shooting your mouth off.

For everyone else, you should be amused to know that Osprey featured this thread in its latest newsletter for authors, retailers etc. They said that Polish spoons will not be published!

Any Comment from OSPREY on C19th Austrian (3) Artillery?

Wouldn't any Osprey on soccer hooligans just be repeating the colour plates from the Neanderthal series?

Elites – Trannis that have conned blokes back to their place V. 1

Trannies sorry. As in 'Vestites

And the military connatations of that…?

Ask a navy seaman.

Cooper – Osprey cancelled the idea at the time the other two were published due to poor sales.

'scuse me, I bought them! Maybe no-one bought the first 2 because they were waiting for all-arms?

How about The Military Events of the World on 27 August 1530 (and so on, and so on).
Incidentally, CooperSteve, if you don't see the Osprey book on 19th-century Austrian artillery it's probably because the first two tried to do too much at once. Compressing 30 years of any other country's military history which included three major wars in one small book "does not compute." I think Opsrey just didn't have the interest for anything more of this sort

I suspect the problem was simply that having painted the figures, there was no Campaign book to go with it – ie: Koniggratz. They seem to struggle a bit with bundling!

How About:

Farm animals of the Imperial Guard (1809-1814)
Anal Intruders of the Afrika Korps
Underware of British royality amid the stains of history

"I think Opsrey just didn't have the interest for anything more of this sort"

This is not exactly 'obscure' history. Do OSPREY not have a German/Central European market? Not to mention Italian and Danish?

Konigratz was not exactly a ruck in a pub car park on Saturday night in Basingstoke…

Didn't the author WANT to complete the series?

It seems to me the main difficulty involved with the Austrian army during the 19th century is that its country no longer exists, and thus it can't be looked at in terms of current history, whatever that is. Discussion about the topic is therefore likely to be somewhat "academic," for want of a better word. And if we are talking about the saleability of titles which treat the military history of central Europe during the 19th century, it may be because it does not involve anyone who spoke English. I also suspect that the author may have wanted to complete his work, but since Osprey was unahppy with the sales they forgot about him.

Osprey have long resisted a separate title on German troops in the AWI, so it's not just about "English-speaking" history, I suspect.

Lets hope he does his own thing in similar format…

Warrior: Couch Potatoes of Sitcoms
Warrior: Couch Potatoes of Reality TV
Warrior: Depressed Housewives Eating Bonbons while Watching Soap Operas starring Fabio
Elite: Armchair Generals watching CNN
Campaign: Tom Cruise Visits Oprah
Men-at-Arms: Black Panthers (1965 – 1979)
Men-at-Arms: Oppressive White Southern Sheriffs (1965 – 1979)
British Soccer Hooligans (2) Arsenal [a return jab at JWO, go Reds!]
Weapon Series: The Pamphlets of the Jahova Witnesses

Shell craters of WW1
Shell craters of WW2 etc…
Looted valubles throughout the centuries… vols 5-9 focusing on the Nazis
Aiplane chocks 1939-1945
Trollies and tea urns of the Naffi
Napolionic horse dung: French Hussars etc…
Navi jackets 1872-2006

Name Calling – The Various insults President
Bush has used to put down folks who disagree with him about the "War on Terra" (tm).

IT series: Icons of TMP Members 2005 – 2006

Er… accessories series: Contraceptives of the Vatican Swiss Guard

Sartorial series: Undewear of the Highland Regiments

Culinary series: Danishes of the Danish Army

Culinary series: Turkish Delights of the Ottoman Empire

French Letters of the Grande Armee

Elite Series :

Alexander the great Boy-friends part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 etc.

Castros Cigars

Stalins spectacles

Hitlers Moustage

> The Sentient Bean 24 Aug 2006 3:21 a.m. PST
> Ask a navy seaman.

Heh huh, huh huh, huh huh…

You said "seaman"

Huh huh, huh huh….

Seebee dozer track links November, 1942 to August, 1943
F-14 aces of Top Gun (the movie).
Bricoles of the SS
Elite series- Guardian Angels (Vol. 1- Lower Bronx Autumn 1987)
Mullets of the Rocky Montain Rangers

Osprey 13245:
Rock, Paper, Scissors in action.
(With original 3-D art).

I'm too lazy to check the previous posts, so maybe this has been done:

TMP posters # 37: John the OFM, 2003-2006

"How We made money in the US" (cancelled due to change from USD to North American peso).