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Re: austro hungarian masters

Excellent figures! I like the helmets and I especially appreciate the kneeling and standing firing figures with BAYONETS ATTACHED. These sets will go well with the earlier sets of Austrians. I realize you are in the process of doing other projects but if down the road you would consider WW1 Italians those would go well with the Austrians. Keep up the good work! Your efforts are appreciated. All the best! Cappy

Re: austro hungarian masters

Love the machine gunner pose, not so happy about the lack of a number two and ammunition for it though, more so on seeing a Strelets in the set

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Nice looking figures. I like the mix of mounted and foot poses.
A loader for the machine gun would be useful !
But not complaining as it`s great to finally see this set come to life.
Perhaps Strelets you might consider for the future some regular Austrian cavalry sets too for WW1 !

Re: austro hungarian masters

They make the previous Strelets WWI cavalry sets look poor but great to make the comparison and see that the standards of sculpting have improved so considerably.
BTW the "Frankenstein" bolts on the helmet are for the Stirnpanzer or helmet shield. This is the similar German version and shows the location,strap etc. They were worn on sentry duty etc but figure in few photos as the Stirnpanzer made the helmet cumbersome for general use.


The rifles look like Mannlicher 1895s (straight pull)which should be not be so long with the cavalry as they used the carbine. These were a typical Honved weapon.

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A clever way to sculpt a machine gunner. Happy to see a prone one. On my computer screen he seems to have no face though?

A number 2 gunner would be useful indeed.

Not convinced about the bareheaded man, would prefer him to wear a cap or helmet.

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The machine gunner pose is interesting, here is why, if you look at toy soldiers made between the wars 1919-39 this pose is really common, I have also seen it in period drawing and the odd photo too. I suspect that this was how a machine gun was used in attack,or in mobile warfare, sitting down on a raised tripod would make you an easy target, prone far less so. So nice to see in our scale and long overdue.

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Pa
A clever way to sculpt a machine gunner. Happy to see a prone one. On my computer screen he seems to have no face though?

A number 2 gunner would be useful indeed.

Not convinced about the bareheaded man, would prefer him to wear a cap or helmet.

Both the machine gunner and advancing man are wearing caps. Save the pics to your desktop and then you can zoom in and see the details.

I like the advancing man in cap just as he is.

However, Strelets, if I may say I'd rather the prone machine gunner have a separate head we can plug on and also wearing a helmet. Separate you can have some very nice details. Just a thought. Looking great!

Re: austro hungarian masters

Really great masters. Chapeau!

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Thanks GC, I can see the cap on the advancing guy's head now.

Good point about having the MG gunner's head as a separate part.

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Pa, The pleasure is mine. I had exactly the same thoughts as you. Downloading to the DeskTop is a little trick I figured out.

I just received all the rest of Strelets' WWI Cavalry sets (German and British) I hadn't bought before. They are so cool. In hand, they are works of art. Unfortunately, some digital pictures don't do the actual figures justice.

Just for fun, try saving the new Gettysburg U.S. Cavalry Teaser Pics to your desk top and enjoy the show. I actually have really good eye sight, but 1/72 is pretty small to capture the real thing. It's my understanding Strelets' sculptors make their masters at actual size (1:1) with no downsizing. I've done so many conversions now, under a hobby magnifying lamp, I should have been a doctor!

Cheers