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Hello Hank
My Brother has a tip on painting in a hot climate.
He used to paint model figures for sale.
When the weather was so hot he used to sit in front of the refrigerator with the door open. His models, paints brushes and solvents were on the shelves inside the fridge and of course with the door open the fridge light would be on. The cool air from the fridge kept him cool as well.
Hello Old John. The figure you ask about is one of my favourites. He has a saucer in his left hand and a cup in his right. The cup looks a little large for coffee so I suspect it is for apple tea. (I enjoyed both when I was in Istanbul last November.)
He is sporting a superb moustache, has epaulets a sword in scabbard with two ornmental tassels.
I will be using him in my Khartoum diarama.
Regards
Murat
Sorry it was Hank who asked about the chap next to the drummer. So Frank please read my comments to Old John in the previous posting.
p.s. if you take Taran's advice about the fridge don't sue me if you get frost-bite.
Best wishes
M
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Hello Firat
I suspect that Strelets do not believe that the Crimean Turks will sell well on their own.
I often find, especially amongst British people, if you mention the Turks at Balaclava, they ask "Were the Turks at Balaclava?"
Contemporary British Newspapers not only played down the role played by the Turks but actually went as far as making them out to be cowards.
The 'Thin Red Streak, tipped with steel' (the original quote which has been corrupted into the 'Thin Red Line') is a misrepresentation. I am not suggesting that the Highlanders were not heroes. I am only saying that there was more blue than red in that thin line. The turks that joined that line were those who had been driven back from the redoubts by overwhelming number of Russians.
They had already been fighting for several hours before the British Staff had even got up for breakfast.
What is needed here is a good film of the battles at Balaclava showing the contribution of the Turks and the Chassuers d'Afrique as well.
Meanwhile, A few of us hope to prove Strelets wrong. Especially Hank who has half the production on order already, bless him.
Regards
M
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Murat
You are right about the British attitude, but Strelets is not British, its Russian. I wonder if the Russians are equally guilty of misrepresenting or forgetting the Turks?
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Hi Jon,
this is a good point. The Russians fought the Turkish in 1853/54 and then the siege of Kars and Eupatoria.
I would even go so far to say they fought more Turks than British in this war.
Maybe Strelets will change his mind and after selling enough big boxes to get rid of the other CW-figures we can see sets of Turks appear on the market?
BTW, I can always use the Hussars and the Russian infantry. The Highlanders are a little bit limited, but with a paint-conversion they are useful for the Indian mutiny and with a sharp knife they could be converted in everything from the Highlands between 1800 and 1900.
Russo-Turkish War (1568–1570)
Russo-Crimean Wars
Russo-Crimean War (1571)
Russo-Turkish War (1676–1681)
Russo-Turkish War (1686–1700)
Russo-Turkish War (1710–1711)
Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739)
Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)
Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)
Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)
Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)
Russo-Turkish War (1853–1856) (Crimean War)
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
Russo-Turkish War (1914–1917) (World War I)
Soviet–Turkish War (1917–1918) (part of the Russian Civil War)
So here you are strelets can you cover all of them PLEASE!!!