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Author Topic: What should be added to the Copplestone range?  (Read 24234 times)

Offline Plynkes

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #15 on: June 20, 2018, 09:29:40 AM »
Seems to me that he's been a lot busier in recent times than he has in a long while. Granted, it has generally been for North Star rather than his own range, but he does seem to be more active. So maybe there is a little cause for optimism.

Looking forward to the addition of the new Africa stuff we've been told of, even if it isn't quite what I would have asked for.

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Offline Sir Rodney Ffing

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #16 on: June 20, 2018, 10:35:28 AM »
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Offline Costanzo

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #17 on: June 20, 2018, 12:20:17 PM »
Cinese, mongolian, russian civilians. Drivers, russian infantry variants.

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #18 on: June 20, 2018, 01:12:52 PM »
I understand Mr Copplestone may be busy, so if we are after particular models we should think about what gaps would need covering and how high demand would be for them. I'd be interested in a pack of Tibetan regulars for example, but I'm not sure whether they'd sell that well.

We're already a niche part of a niche hobby, so focus on what might be popular. To that end, off the top of my head I think the following might work well;

* Foot Basmachis
* Mounted Basmachis
* Basmachi command (inc. Enver Pasha/Emir of Bokhara, or they could be a separate pack like the Chinese Warlord/Mad Baron)

* Japanese infantry
* Japanese cavalry
* Japanese command
* Japanese HMG

* Austrian/German PoWs in Bolshevik service (tatty old uniforms with bits of newer stuff, etc.)

* Armenians (purely because of the recent talk/upcoming Dunsterforce book)

Of course others may disagree on what would be popular (White Russian officer cavalry, etc.) but I think it's a good place to start  :)

Offline ecwcaptain

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #19 on: June 20, 2018, 03:39:02 PM »
I forgot to add, but second...

Turkish Mounted Officers
Turkish Cavalry (with options of lance or rifle armed; can either put rifle in hand open hand instead of a lance, etc.)

Offline ErikB

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #20 on: June 20, 2018, 04:27:53 PM »
One of my all-time favorite sculptors!  And I love the size, more like 1/48 than 25mm.

I'd request more Czech Legion and a proper line of Austo-Hungarians from WW1.

More Africa sounds cool, too.

Offline Von Stroheim

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #21 on: June 20, 2018, 05:14:29 PM »
Mounted partisans

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #22 on: June 20, 2018, 05:32:47 PM »
Beau Geste and/or Pulp-era French Foreign Legion.

I like what Bob Murch is doing but I would like to see more!  :-)

Offline Johnno

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #23 on: June 20, 2018, 06:03:25 PM »
Not being a sculptor or anything but most of the BoB range seems to consist of 1-2 positions sculpted as dollies and then the details being changed.
Surely that should also have an influence on the time it would take to pump these figures out.

I go back to my idea of a generic force.

Each force basically looks similar
Puttees/leg wrapping
Baggy trouser
Field jacket with or without epaulettes
generic rifle
some type of belts/bandoliers/rolls
Head options - to suit many nationalities
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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #24 on: June 20, 2018, 06:19:18 PM »
Not being a sculptor or anything but most of the BoB range seems to consist of 1-2 positions sculpted as dollies and then the details being changed.
Surely that should also have an influence on the time it would take to pump these figures out.

I go back to my idea of a generic force.

Each force basically looks similar
Puttees/leg wrapping
Baggy trouser
Field jacket with or without epaulettes
generic rifle
some type of belts/bandoliers/rolls
Head options - to suit many nationalities

Good thinking.

Perhaps SMGs, MGs, pistols, sabers, map and compass, big knife, and, eventually, shorter carbines, would make sense.

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #25 on: June 20, 2018, 06:39:27 PM »
Would love a command group of some sort for the tibetans, as well as some artillery... and ideally a pack of foot musketeers in different poses!

Agree with this one.  And perhaps some in uniform as well:





Would also like to see some monks (particularly dob-dobs) and Mongolians on foot

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #26 on: June 20, 2018, 07:38:57 PM »
Poles - infantry and Cavalry.  Battle of Warsaw here we come!
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Offline Stu

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #27 on: June 21, 2018, 12:24:55 AM »
How about a range of drivers to fit the yesteryear range?

Offline FramFramson

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #28 on: June 21, 2018, 02:31:30 AM »
Not being a sculptor or anything but most of the BoB range seems to consist of 1-2 positions sculpted as dollies and then the details being changed.
Surely that should also have an influence on the time it would take to pump these figures out.

I go back to my idea of a generic force.

Each force basically looks similar
Puttees/leg wrapping
Baggy trouser
Field jacket with or without epaulettes
generic rifle
some type of belts/bandoliers/rolls
Head options - to suit many nationalities

I've been badgering nick to ask about Copplestone head sprues, male and female. I'd kill for some of those. I also expect they'd sell very well and that he could knock some out quite quickly as compared to a full sculpt. Among other things (such as just plain liking his sculpts), I really, REALLY appreciate Copplestone's extremely painter-friendly method of sculpting eyes and would love to be able to use that to advantage on a wider range of figures.

Failing that, I'd just like to see more women sculpts for any genre, though BoB would present some interesting possibilities: A female partisans pack? Bolshevik women's brigade foot soldiers to go with the Heroines set? A mixed-gender BoB civvies pack?

He does women very well and with as much personality as he puts into men, but so much less often!   

It's all up to Mr. Copplestone apparently - whatever tickles his fancy - but one might hope something in there would catch his interest.
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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #29 on: June 21, 2018, 07:34:11 AM »
Tbh whatever he makes I'm likely to buy, so purely the fact that Nick will discuss this with Mark is exciting news for me.
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