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Re: New Caesar sets in deatil

Would the French need more than a headswap to be usable in late war?

Re: New Caesar sets in detail

That depends on how serious you are... they look like they have gaiters but its ill defined and only riflemen apart from the Hotchkiss that is, single breasted capotes would be normal for late 15 through to 17 plus a whole bunch of other kit, double breasted capotes come back in late in the war...

Without going into details check out this site:

http://www.lesfrancaisaverdun-1916.fr/

I think its a shame they didn't complete this set:

http://www.miniknight.com/images/H034/IMG_0001.jpg

Re: New Caesar sets in detail

ironsides
That depends on how serious you are...

Without going into details check out this site:

http://www.lesfrancaisaverdun-1916.fr/

I think its a shame they didn't complete this set:

http://www.miniknight.com/images/H034/IMG_0001.jpg



I'm really serious But if it's just a couple of buttons or something similar, I'm not that bothered. Mostly I'm looking for more poses to augment the Revell, Airfix and whatever else I can find kits.

Re: New Caesar sets in detail

Pegasus WWI French are very good late war troops too.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/

Re: New Caesar sets in detail

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Pegasus WWI French are very good late war troops too.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/


I couldn't find any of them yet sadly :(

Re: New Caesar sets in detail

zirrian
Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Pegasus WWI French are very good late war troops too.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/


I couldn't find any of them yet sadly :(


Rather like Revell!

So whats available: Strelets in Gas masks and Airfix...

Curious that such a large prominant army is not covered well yet... If you took all the sets you still coudn't make a single platoon!

Re: New Caesar sets in detail

ironsides
zirrian
Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Pegasus WWI French are very good late war troops too.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/


I couldn't find any of them yet sadly :(


Rather like Revell!

So whats available: Strelets in Gas masks and Airfix...

Curious that such a large prominant army is not covered well yet... If you took all the sets you still coudn't make a single platoon!



The worst is they are available on eBay - but from Australia and the US, where postage would be more than the actual kit to Hungary!

Seems like the case with most WW1 ranges tho - HaT can't be bothered to release late war Brits (making their heavy weapons practically useless), the Emhar brits are bad and don't have nearly enough poses, the Strelets gasmask figures...well, the less we speak about them the better, so what's left...nothing, really. The Strelets Poles will probably serve as French here, again, with some headswaps to Adrians.

Some bloody focus instead of an ADHD would be nice on the manufacturers' part

Re: New Caesar sets in detail

I think if you head swap the Poles and Serbs you'll end up with something reasonable, still short on specific weapons though... I noticed the Aussie Ebay sets as well, dont think I would want to pay the postage... the problem is what Adrians do you use? you could behead an airfix set but many heads are faulty(worn out tool) and may be too small? the Revell even more so, on balance I think I'd pick a good head and cast it in multiples...

Afaik Hät has released late war Brits under the guise of Canadians and of course the Late War Scots which dont have any HW so there was a need there...
Emhar Brits seem to have had problems with either the plastic not holding paint with earlier editions or the register of the tool with later editions leaving a nasty step... I bought both when there was nothing else...

ADHD to much Ribena probably...

Re: New Caesar sets in detail

Dan Taylor has some lovely Adrian helmeted heads, and I think Minairons does them as well.

The Canadians...first of all, they are somewhat ugly (at least looking at PSR, I'll try to get a set...), and they already include heavy weapons, making the standalone HW set redundant. Beautiful, but redundant.

I should get some Scots as well and convert the everloving crap out of them to make at least some Lewis gunners and maybe rifle grenadiers.

Re: New Caesar sets in detail

zirrian
Dan Taylor has some lovely Adrian helmeted heads, and I think Minairons does them as well.


The Minairons head sets are rather good usually.

Early War Miniatures do several head sets too, maybe Adrian helmeted ones as well.

HäT have done French Cavalry (set 8273) wearing Adrian helmets which might fit. Their artillery crew (set 8161) is terrible and in need of replacement heads itself.

Re: New Caesar sets in detail

How ungrateful you must remember that the manufactures know what we want so only you and me want WW1 French with Adrian helmet, HMG and mortars we should be thankful that they make anything for us. Henry Ford showed them the way You can have any colour you want as long as it is black. void(0);

Re: New Caesar sets in detail

johnny
How ungrateful you must remember that the manufactures know what we want so only you and me want WW1 French with Adrian helmet, HMG and mortars we should be thankful that they make anything for us. Henry Ford showed them the way You can have any colour you want as long as it is black. void(0);


I'm not sure if I understand what you've meant, but the market doesn't work on the principle of "the customers are for the manufacturers", but the exact opposite of that.

Re: New Caesar sets in deatil

Thank you for the link.

I will buy the 1914 French to bolster the existing HäT and Emhar sets.

Some of the Fallschirmjäger figures seem to wear the Heer helmet M1935, which puts them late in the war. The Leichtgeschütz has not been done in plastic yet so another one for the list. Yes I know more WW2 Germans, but Fallschirmjäger crew poses are not exactly thick on the ground in plastic.

The few close-ups show heavy lumps of extra plastic between arm and weapon/body, hopefully this does not mean coming back to the quality of an earlier production run Caesar had done by another manufacturer? Regards, Pa