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Re: "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

Bunkermeister's Bunker Talk Blog has some impressive photos of "The Sand Pebbles" 1/32 San Pablo River Gun Boat and two smaller boats to go with it. Although I was a young kid when this movie came out, you never forget the highlight scenes, such as landing parties, running the barricade, hand to hand fighting with the Chinese Military Academy young men. I found Bunkermeister's two links while in Google Images looking for pictures. Great job! I enjoyed very much. Hope Strelets continues into the Sailors/Navy Ranges of various eras:


http://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2011/03/san-pablo.html

http://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2011/03/san-pablo_05.html

more ancient

more Roman enemies are needed, which also could be used as a new 'independent' range:

late republic:
Pontic army (Mithridates), Armenian, Parthian

addition to punic-war-range:
successor states like Macedonia, Seleucids, Ptolemaic Army (including different types of Cavalry and war-elephants), hellenistic city armies (e.g. Syracuse)

There is a large variate at this time: Roman, successor states, smaler hellenistic states, Carthago ...

Re: more ancient

I would love to see Strelets do a Spanish Civil War range. The figures available now from BUM are, for the most part, too soft and expensive. There would be many possibilities for different types of troops: Regular Republicans and Nationalists, Spanish Civil Guard, Winter Infantry, Spanish Foreign Legion, partisans and militias for each side, etc.

Re: more ancient

Again I will say that I think that a wild west set would be ideally suited to the Strelets style.
Townsfolk,prospecters,sherriff & outlaws ,gamblers,buffalo hunters and cowboys.
Long duster coats,slouch hats etc.

Wild West

I will second the request.

Re: Wild West

We need more ancients to fight those multiple Romans.

There are only a few Iberians (a multitude of people), few italicans, no etruscans, some celtiberians, no set for lusitanians, no liguarians, no illyrians, no aquitanians, bad indians, only one set thracians.

There are no pontic armies, only a few parthians, only very few sucessor state troops (solely elephants).

If you consider the brightness of different equipment, fighting styles, there is hardly another period in time to compete.

I would love to see different sets for those "forgotten" nations.

Re: Wild West

Carthaginians would be awesome. As would figures for the English civil wars.

Re: Wild West

French colonials is a gaping black hole in 1/72 - I'd rather Strelets went a little of the beaten track and did the initial French conquest of Algeria in the early 1840's than the Beau Geste era but, hey, that would be great too.

After the recent reveal of the great Stalingrad Germans some Russian counterparts for them must be Strelets next priority though.

Re: Wild West

- Wild West : dismounted US Cav, Apaches, Sioux, Mexicans
- FFL and enemies : Camarone, Riff War and Indochina 1950s
- Korea War Winter : USMC, Chinese
- WW3 : Nato and Warsaw pact in NBC outfits
- Soviets and Mujahideen in Afghanistan
And this is just the beginning of my list!!

Re: more ancient

A full set of mounted Roman Emperors, in the style of the 3 figures in the Imperial Legion set.

The three are clearly recognizable, and I do feel these "personality" figures are what Strelets do best.

To compliment, a rival set of non-Roman personalities from the same era.