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Title: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: steve501 on July 19, 2012, 12:46:16 PM
Hi all just thought i would start a Empress Moderns wishlist - I am hoping for some of these soon ??????????????? Any thoughts

a) US
 
1) Pack 1 - Humvee (Imprint) Crew firing weapons
2) 60mm M224 Mortar and 3 crew
3) M240 MG 2 crew carrying weapon, 1 x AT4 on back holding M4 and either a kneeling or firing SAW (M249)
4) 2 man sniper team with Barret .5 Sniper Rifle
5) 3 man crew for Heavy weapon ( Imprint MK19 Grenade or .5 cal HMG)
 
b) British
 
1) Lying GPMG team firing,standing and lying firing SAW (L108/A1)
2) M6 60mm Mortar, firing SA80A2 with shotgun on back,firing LAW and carrying LAW
3) Heavy Weapon Crew for .5cal HMG and HK GMG

cheers
steve
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: The Gray Ghost on July 19, 2012, 02:31:17 PM
c) more insurgents
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: 6milPhil on July 19, 2012, 05:10:55 PM
For the Barrett you could use the Eureka one.
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: Marine0846 on July 19, 2012, 06:11:02 PM
I would really like to see;
Crew members for different tanks and Humvees.
Also insurgents, love what they have done, just want more.
Does that make me greedy? lol
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: leonmallett on July 20, 2012, 03:17:50 PM
c) more insurgents

Definitely; if there were more packs I would buy them, until then, no.
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: Keith on July 20, 2012, 03:39:19 PM
More insurgent riflemen and a support pack are planned for the late autumn to start with. We've just got a few projects (and holidays) to get out of the way first!
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: leonmallett on July 20, 2012, 05:29:30 PM
More insurgent riflemen and a support pack are planned for the late autumn to start with. We've just got a few projects (and holidays) to get out of the way first!

Same or complimentary sculptor I hope! If so, consider me sold! :)
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: Keith on July 20, 2012, 07:56:16 PM
Same or complimentary sculptor I hope! If so, consider me sold! :)

Same of course  :)
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: leonmallett on July 20, 2012, 08:01:31 PM
Same of course  :)

Good to hear. :)

How late in the year is 'late autumn' in this context?
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: steve501 on July 20, 2012, 08:09:26 PM
Keith -
          Any plans to add to the British and US Infantry this year ????
cheers
steve
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: Keith on July 21, 2012, 10:59:55 AM
Keith -
          Any plans to add to the British and US Infantry this year ????
cheers
steve

Possibly, but time is tight at the moment. I'd like to bulk out the insurgents to make them a lot more useful and there is a 'new' force that we'd like to get up to the same scale as the US/UK ranges at present.

Unfortunately there is only so much time in the day :)
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: carlos marighela on July 21, 2012, 02:01:36 PM
.... and there is a 'new' force that we'd like to get up to the same scale as the US/UK ranges at present.....

Oh my God! Could it be true? G4S Security Guards for the London Olympics? It seems you won't need quite as many as the British Army range if that is the secret new force you have in mind. In fact we can probably just manage without. I would still like to see the Boris Johnson and Seb Coe personality figures though.


 :D
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: leonmallett on September 17, 2012, 01:13:50 PM
More insurgent riflemen and a support pack are planned for the late autumn to start with. We've just got a few projects (and holidays) to get out of the way first!

Any more info on an ETA Keith? :)
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: Keith on September 17, 2012, 01:27:57 PM
Still the same at the moment ... :)
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: carlos marighela on September 17, 2012, 10:46:10 PM
Eureka make the Barret team, look under their USMC Force Recon range. As for vehicle crew you might want to look at their SEAL crew for the Company B G-Wagen, which comes with weapons ( .50 cal and vehicle mount M240) They sell these separately and they would work for US Army.
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: loki77 on September 18, 2012, 04:48:21 PM
French Foreign legion please.

Especially with support weapons
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: carlos marighela on September 18, 2012, 05:49:19 PM
French Foreign legion please.

Especially with support weapons

Eureka again and also Dadi i Piombo
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: NurgleHH on September 18, 2012, 07:23:02 PM
@carlos: you were faster than me. Next time will be mine ;)

I hope for some troops not avaible in the moment. Like North koreans or mexicans or modern japanese
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: carlos marighela on September 18, 2012, 11:32:14 PM
 :D

Eureka make modern Japanese in their Kreigspiel line.

But yes, some, troops nobody makes as yet would be nice. Generic chaps in kevlar helmets, BDU style uniforms and AK-47s seems to be a popular request.
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: Slayer on September 19, 2012, 05:54:57 AM
Aussie support weapon teams, as eureka has a very limited range :-(
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: Keith on September 19, 2012, 08:40:33 AM
Well, if we change the thread title then you could request some?  :D
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: carlos marighela on September 19, 2012, 09:12:39 AM
Actually I'm going back to the future and concentrating on the 1950s-70s. Apart from the nostalgia, there's no sense that I'll have to replace the minis to go with the latest bit of kit or repaint the buggers cos some fashionista in defence circles has decided on a new pattern of camouflage.
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: loki77 on September 19, 2012, 12:38:41 PM
I have all the Eureka ones, but we were talking about an Empress wishlist. This would give me a wider selection   :D
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: Arlequín on September 19, 2012, 02:34:56 PM
Actually I'm going back to the future and concentrating on the 1950s-70s. Apart from the nostalgia, there's no sense that I'll have to replace the minis to go with the latest bit of kit or repaint the buggers cos some fashionista in defence circles has decided on a new pattern of camouflage.

A wise decision... it is the way forward. Go back to the present in about twenty years when it's the past and things will be better.  :?
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: carlos marighela on September 19, 2012, 10:19:35 PM
Right then, an endorsement from the mod.

So for my modern (modern for those of us over the age of 45 that is) wishlist.

Russians circa 1956-1970. Gymnastierka, AKs, RPDs etc. Budapest, Prague, the Berlin Crisis, the Cuban Missile Crisis etc etc. Pretty good for 7TV/ Kiss Kiss Bang Bang playersas well  I should thonk. Yes, I know about the Brigade Games Atomic cafe line but they come in silly packs.

US Army 1957-70s. Sateen combat uniforms, with all those snazzy, Elvis era, coloured insignia.

French paras for Algeria.

French paras for Kolwezi.

Chinese infantry, 1960s/70s. Teach brotherly Vietnam a lesson, take Honkers by force 30 years earlier, fight the perfidious Russians. Caps/ helmet variants.

Cubans, lots of Cubans.

1. The Revolution
a) Fidel and the boys from the Sierra Maestre.
b) Batista's army.

2) Bay of Pigs.
a)Fidel and the Peoples Militia and some regulars.
b) Reactionary CIA backed running dog counter-revolutionary gangsters (Brigadistas)

3) Internationalism
a)Che and the Boys in Bolivia
b) Bolivian Rangers

Chinese and Russian winter clad infantry. Border conflict 1969.

Chilean Army for 1979. Someone else to fight my Argentines.

Cue theme song from the Man of La Mancha............. lol
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: the commissar on September 19, 2012, 10:27:12 PM
That's quite a list  :)

Would certainly go for French paras for Kolwezi.
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: Arlequín on September 19, 2012, 11:07:37 PM
Right then, an endorsement from the mod.

An endorsement from me is as much use as a rubber bayonet.  :?

Carlos' really long list....

Put me down for what he said too!  ;)
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: johnny817 on November 10, 2012, 06:57:40 PM
Some modern middle eastern armies would good like Iran ,Jordan , Saudi ,
Not just insurgents

Us navy assault team would be nice to , something like what we have seen in last resort

Modern Chinese and North Korean


Modern Israeli troops I know mongrel does them but ones a bit more modern would be nice

Since North Korea has been said how South Korea
U could border guards and regular military



Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: Earther on November 10, 2012, 07:12:00 PM
That's quite a list  :)

Would certainly go for French paras for Kolwezi.

This. :P
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: Dezmond on November 11, 2012, 06:25:34 AM
Salem and Rios.

(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/130/b/b/salem___rios_by_capngarrett-d1cun9o.jpg)

Kane & Lynch.

(http://www.co-optimus.com/images/upload/image/2010/kanelynch.jpg)

Soap MacTavish and Captain Price.

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9nmkin2lO1r84jfpo1_1280.png)

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...

What?
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: commissarmoody on November 11, 2012, 08:50:32 AM
Some modern middle eastern armies would good like Iran ,Jordan , Saudi ,
Not just insurgents

Us navy assault team would be nice to , something like what we have seen in last resort

Modern Chinese and North Korean


Modern Israeli troops I know mongrel does them but ones a bit more modern would be nice

Since North Korea has been said how South Korea
U could border guards and regular military


Yes to all of the above, and to maybe finishing off the US Army range.
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: Keith on November 11, 2012, 01:07:05 PM
Well, the next modern sculpts should be with us early next week and then off to the casters. Some very useful stuff there for people wanting to expand the theaters that they are gaming in. There are more in the pipeline after these too. Unit packs are planned for Christmas.

60's, 70's, 80's and 90's subjects aren't anywhere in the plan for now, and certainly wouldn't be in a 'modern' range if and when we do.
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: carlos marighela on November 11, 2012, 01:39:36 PM
Well that's good news Keith. Will there be an announcemnet next week as to what new goodies are available? Unit packs would be nice, I'd probably  pull my finger out and order the Brits if they were organised into section packs with the right mix of weapons.

I never really expected any of my list to make it onto a production schedule but I can live with that, there are other ways and some of what I most want is likely to materialise from another quarter. :-)
Title: Re: Empress Modern wishlist
Post by: commissarmoody on November 12, 2012, 01:48:31 AM
Well, the next modern sculpts should be with us early next week and then off to the casters. Some very useful stuff there for people wanting to expand the theaters that they are gaming in. There are more in the pipeline after these too. Unit packs are planned for Christmas.
Woot! Sounds good to me, are they more Brits? Yanks?