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I'm excited to see all of the sets recommended above made, especially ACW, I hope Seige Cannons with both Union and Confederate Gunners.
BTW, I received my Strelets German Army in Stalingrad from the U.K. to U.S. yesterday. I bought this set mainly for the Officer pose, but Wow! all of the figures are beautifully sculpted. Man, I wish I could convince Strelets to make a dedicated "Officer" only set mainly for summer campaigning. With the German Police set and Stalingrad set I've got to assemble my Kubelwagons and have a few ambush scenarios!
Excellent work Strelets - another couple of purchases/investments from your Team for my collection. GC
If it is already time for further suggestions, I can‘t resist to share some “most wanted“ artillery pieces appropriately fitting into Strelets existing ranges.
first half of 20th century
- french Canon de 65mm de montagne Mle 1906
- japanese Type 41 75mm mountain/regimental gun
- austro-hungarian 8cm Feldkanone M 05 or M 05/08
- british QF 3.7inch mountain howitzer
- austro-hungarian 10cm Gebirgskanone M 16
- french Canon de 105mm Mle 1913
- french Mortier de 280mm TR Mle 1914
- japanese 28cm howitzer L/1 (with RJW period crew)
... 19th century
- prussian 6 Pfünder Feldkanone C/61 (with FPW crew)
- RML 7 pounder mountain gun (with “Colonial“ crew)
- 6.4inch (100-pounder) or 8inch (200-pounder) Parrott rifle (with ACW crew)
...
Would be great if Strelets could possibly consider one of the mentioned guns to expand the related range.
But I would be very pleased, if future artillery pieces could be done in hard plastic.
This would result in more detailed & better fitting kits. :+1:
The usually excellent figures should be kept in soft plastic though.
the problem with all old artillery pieces is a lack of drawings for the cannons.
Images alone aren't sufficient to make a gun.
To design a model of them, one should have 3 elevations of a gun and its dimensions, which, in many cases, is simply not available.
Dear Strelets, Peter has made some excellent suggestions. I particularly support his idea to cast the guns in hard and the figures in soft plastic.
Several of those guns are preserved in museums and/or have been very common so dimensions should not be too hard to find. Some links below for starters, can someone add to it please?
Dear Strelets, Peter has made some excellent suggestions. I particularly support his idea to cast the guns in hard and the figures in soft plastic.
Several of those guns are preserved in museums and/or have been very common so dimensions should not be too hard to find. Some links below for starters, can someone add to it please?