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Re: To Strelets - ME !

I'm just as frustrated about the lack of CW Turkish artillery as I 've been about the lack of Parthian catapultsfor the Roman period. Strelets are true heroes if they can fill at least one of these gaps.

Re: To Strelets - ME !

Hi Jan, Yes i think Turkish CW merit their own set of artillery.Although a french period set with turkish heads would suffice.

being at my dream work desk i building last ship for Kalafat 5, a Turkish Artillery set could be augmented/padded with ,mule ambulance,transport arabas carts in lavish Ottoman Turk fashion .Sevral civillain figures as contractors thrown in.Maybe an observation hot air balloon for teh RTW(Turkish Gambitt fame).There is a big seller right there, aattract those acw and other colonial franco-prussian war ,boer,india eras <>to snap that one up).

I hope they sell separate to make up hiding turks in with other figures.Cost me plenty $800 for 30 sets.
However if they mix turk artillery with turk cavalry
i would not complain(just for a change)chuckel.
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artillery

Dear All

There is probably adequate CW horse artillery (guns not figures or horses) but what is needed is field artillery of the heavier calibres and of course the varied personnel to man both types.
I hope the Turkish infantry for the Russo-Turkish war 1877 is not lumped in a big box. I think the CW Turks have the potential for greater sales as individual sets. The ones with cartridge pouch on the front are more like R-T war and I am not sure if they were worn like this in the CW but who knows?.
Finally Strelets should have included some colour artwork for the Turks on the Thin Red Line box. I know the colours but not every customer comes to this forum ( very few do) or trawls the internet for meagre scraps of information. If it can be done for the other three sets why not the Turks?
Dark blue(indigo) uniform, red fez ..... etc - so here are my (unusually,not much chopped) efforts :



right click and download if your browser only shows two figures and you should get 4 figures. Now there's value.

David

Re: artillery

Here here Professori, yes there were more turks involved than French,brittish,sardinians put together .Oh 100 and spanish contingent 1853(incorporated under the french with general Prim).

Re: artillery

ah french command set ,i am thinking unity to light inf,zouaves and french line.definitely a band would merge all three types together with afro-arabesque costume influence present since napoleonique times.

Okay i am asking for French turkish and british and russian bands on top of artillery.I am to confess greedy selfish for wanting.So integral a part of colonial era.wargaming always a bonus for band presence morale fatcor.especially when sets are mini derived it takes away from large serried ranks of the same.

bands

Dear Hank

I beetle on about comfort zones below.
Military bands are very attractive but they are not in the one standing firing, one kneeling firing etc... convention for 1/72nd scale figures. Preiser do some stunning modern bandsmen/women in HO scale and 1/35th scale.
24 standing and 24 marching equals 48 figures and a sizeable band would be 2 or 3 sets not too many bass drummers or drum majors or glockenspiel players per set hopefully. Great for dioramas, displays and Britains were doing them a million or a thousand years ago and still do them and they are collected in their millions.


keep banging the drum

David

Re: artillery

Hi Hank,

I haven't heard about the Spanish troops before. Do you have some more informations on them?

Shipka Pass - it seems the DVDs worked


cheers
Uwe

Re: artillery

hi Uwe, yes i have only scraps of information, recording their presence.Also one sketch illustration of the General which was publiushed in the newspaper 1853.(these newspapers are goldmine of information) I send you email.

Official Kalafat 5 countdown 2 day to completion.It is looking exciting to me.

BTW Kalafat grande finale(6) is also complete(1200 rouskies s-r infantry are ready for camera) just need more scenic work to make this authentic.basically all kalafaTs on one diodrama.

Re: To Strelets Crimean war

One idea,one grappe with one officer, one with one drummer, one with standard bearer and for the last strelets figure.
A coeur vaillant rien d'impossible!!!!
And please, please, please ARTILLRY!!!
VOILA.
RD