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Author Topic: What should be added to the Copplestone range?  (Read 24231 times)

Offline traveller

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #105 on: July 27, 2018, 07:17:20 AM »
Irregular Miniatures do a savannah knight and an armoured Abyssinian Galla horseman.
You'll find them in the Colonial section: http://www.irregularminiatures.co.uk/indexes/25mmindex.htm

Yep, and there are more from Castaway arts:

https://secure.iig.com.au/castawayarts/index.php?cmd=store

I expect a Copplestone range to be far superior to these though  ;)

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #106 on: July 27, 2018, 03:53:15 PM »
Yep, and there are more from Castaway arts:

https://secure.iig.com.au/castawayarts/index.php?cmd=store

I expect a Copplestone range to be far superior to these though  ;)
Yes, I think they will be.
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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #107 on: August 14, 2018, 05:46:47 PM »
Secondly, in his words: When I first started making the BoB range there was hardly any information available and I felt a bit like a research pioneer and I filled in gaps with guesswork.
I think the main problem with Mr. copplestone is, that he always wanted to discover new worlds and this is his power. So, I Hope for something new and can live with the fact, that this range won‘t be complete....
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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #108 on: August 14, 2018, 07:54:15 PM »
As a number of us mentioned, we'll simply be happy with more 28mm Copplestone figures, period. He's free to be a butterfly - we just want more no matter what it is!


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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #109 on: August 14, 2018, 09:08:16 PM »
I'd love to see Mark coordinate with Bob at Pulp Figures.  They're similar in style, though not the same, and complement each other well.  Two of my favorites.

Offline Sir Rodney Ffing

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #110 on: August 16, 2018, 08:24:14 AM »
So would I, but after the disappointment of the failed attempt to enthuse Mr Copplestone, it seems he has no interest at all in returning to the range.

I admit I know very little about sculpting, but I wonder how hard it would be for another talented sculptor to produce compatible figures (at least in terms of scale and proportion) that would match the Copplestone range better than (say) Brigade (lovely figures, but too small in my view).  If there was the will to do it, surely it wouldn't be like asking Rembrandt to paint in the style of Canaletto? 

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #111 on: August 16, 2018, 11:50:44 AM »
Ooooh, I’m excited.  It was this swine that got me so involved in this madness, and I will buy whatever he produces.  So many good ideas on here already, but here’s my thruppence....

1. Basmachis - mounted and foot
2. Tibetans - some great ideas here already
3. Uzbek and ’Transcaspian’ mounted and foot
4. Irregular Caucasus foot (tooled up with bullet belts and lamb wool hats)
5. Poles - an army I’d love to do
6. Czech legion cavalry

Excellent list.

And I'd like to add:

8. Gurkha command
9. Gurkhas with drawn kukris
10. Japanese cavalry

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #112 on: August 16, 2018, 11:59:52 AM »
Hi Guys
Had a chat with Mr Copplestone and we're not going to like the news.

He just can't face artistically going back to Back of Beyond.

Firstly, he doesn't feel he makes figures in the same style anymore, due to age/ eyesight/ optimisers etc. He's going through the issues now making the new Darkest Africa figures.

Secondly, in his words: When I first started making the BoB range there was hardly any information available and I felt a bit like a research pioneer and I filled in gaps with guesswork.  Now on the other hand there are so  many books and expert websites that I'm now very aware of all the mistakes in accuracy and if I were to revisit it I know I'd really want to remake the whole thing.

Oh well... Pass on my personal thank-yous miniatures he *did* sculpt. :-)

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #113 on: August 26, 2018, 08:07:32 AM »
Chinese civilians please

Offline Keith T

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #114 on: August 27, 2018, 04:47:17 PM »
I hope to have some Chinese Civilians added to our range at the end of the year along with Cixi and her body guard, Genrals and court nobles.
 But please be patient it all takes time to sculpt, mould and cast.
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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #115 on: August 27, 2018, 10:13:46 PM »
victoriouminiatures.com
Is that a website address? Doesn't seem to work... :`

Offline Johnno

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #116 on: August 27, 2018, 10:26:20 PM »
Probably should be victoriousminiatures.com
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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #117 on: August 29, 2018, 04:51:36 PM »
Excellent list.

And I'd like to add:

8. Gurkha command
9. Gurkhas with drawn kukris
10. Japanese cavalry

I concur......
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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #118 on: August 29, 2018, 04:53:52 PM »
Disappointing news on Mark, but you have to respect his integrity and honesty.  And be grateful for what he did...However I wonder if Pasha Hicks and the splendid 'Jazz Age' range from Empress could be persuaded to fill the gaps.  There's defiantly a market and we have some fresh market research to point them in the right direction..... ??? ??? ???

Offline ErikB

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Re: What should be added to the Copplestone range?
« Reply #119 on: August 29, 2018, 05:58:11 PM »
Hey, Mark!  Don't you want to get rich?  Give us customers what we want!

 ;)