What should be added to the Copplestone range?

[Ignatieff]

It's fair to say there is a significant demand out there for more of Mark's most excellent sculpts.......

[Sir Rodney Ffing]

I concur on both points.  For a great painter, they must be a treat to paint and the results the likes of Steve Dean and Mark Hargreaves are able to achieve show just how good the sculpts are. Even for a hamfist like me, a credible and pleasing outcome is possible with patience.

Hopefully the interest and suggestions in this thread will convince Mr. Copplestone and Nick at North Star that there is life in the range yet and it is worth adding to it. 

[NurgleHH]

The missing parts are:- white russians infantry and cavalry- cossacks infantry- more czech legion- more anarchist- finnish troops- american, french and british forces

I think I will find more...

[Nogbad]

But what I'd REALLY like to ask Mark Copplestone is why he had to allow NorthStar to split up his cavalry quartets into packs of three. Of course it doesn't matter doing this if there are only nominal differences between each figure but in the case of Back of Beyond, there are often huge differences!
It's really cheeky (to put it mildly) as the only reason I can see for it is to force people to likely to have to buy  extra packs just to get the figure they want. The old cardboard boxes that used to hold four mounted figures worked perfectly well (and were much better for the environment than those ridiculous plastic packs now).
Rant over.

[nicknorthstar]

I don't see the need for that rant Nogbad. You're wrong. Just because you can only see one reason doesn't make it the right reason. I'll pass the rant onto Mr Copplestone.

[Over Open Sights]

 Such kind words, Sir Rodney. That reminds me that I must post images of Steve's bolo Cadets, Train Guard and ChON. All Copplestone figures with a few minor changes. I have been neglectful of LAF of late.

One can never have too many different chaps in Wolseley Foreign Service helmets. However, we needore additions to the Indian army.

[Nogbad]

I'm sorry NickNorthStar if I sounded too finger-pointing. What was the reason? Still, it's frustrating - especially as it's clear Mark C intended for them to be sold as a foursome - which is why I mentioned it. If there was anything I would change about the range, putting it back to the old all-four-to-a-box horsemen system, that would be it.

[Mark Plant]

The missing parts are:- white russians infantry and cavalry- cossacks infantry- more czech legion- more anarchist- finnish troops- american, french and british forces

I think I will find more...

Presumably by "Cossacks infantry" you mean Kuban and Terek plastoons in Cherkeska.

I'm not sure a couple of hundred scraggy infantry, who mostly wore normal kit anyway (if you're too poor to afford a horse on the steppes, you're unlikely to have expensive clothes to fight in) is a very useful extension. Especially when other ranges cover them.

Glue shoulder boards on Red infantry, paint some of them with blue trousers, and voila! Cossack infantry.

Somewhat intrigued by "Finns" though. What do you think Finns wore?

[nicknorthstar]

It was Mark's call. We were his trade distributor for a decade and he had always sold us 3 cavalry to a blister (the plastic blisters were originally from Copplestone Castings, we adopted them for our other ranges later). When we took over his mail order he advised we keep the three cavalry set up rather than run two different systems. We said 'okay'.

You can get the four figures if you want you know? We're quite flexible. If you are a collector and you want the 4 Tibetan Cavalrymen in the picture, we'll sort a special deal for you.

The black boxes disappeared years ago by the way. Copplestone dropped them in a cost cutting exercise.

[Arrigo]

Addition:

1920-1930 Japanese

[Nogbad]

That's kind of you. Will have a think on what I want next.

[ErikB]

Addition:
1920-1930 Japanese

Good idea!

For now, there are some excellent ones made by Bob Murch at Pulp Figures.

I would like to see Checka guys with pistols and that leather coat they were known for.  :-)

[Patrice]

cossacks infantry

Perhaps rather: a few dismounted cossacks.

I like to have dismounted equivalents of some cavalry figures... when small groups of cavalry want to dismount in skirmish+RPG games. 

[Von Stroheim]

A good set of Tibetan Characters/Command or even some  Tibetan Matchlockmen in different poses - firing , loading etc

[Ignatieff]

Mark got this period going by his original brilliance and energy.  He could reinvigorate it single handedly by doing the same now....off to spin the prayer wheel even faster....