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Offline WallShadow

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Re: What other miniatures/factions would you like to see?
« Reply #45 on: 25 March 2010, 02:25:18 AM »
Young vibrant Puerto Rican immigrants, who form a gang and sing and dance to the music of Steven Sondheim. It doesn't get more 1957 than that..................
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Re: What other miniatures/factions would you like to see?
« Reply #46 on: 25 March 2010, 07:43:50 AM »
Jets and Sharks were more 1960+ you'll be asking for Johnny and 'Baby' figures next.  ;)

I'll admit I prefer the idea of an AC62 rather than an AC57 in any case... that's personal taste for you though.

Champion the wonder horse and the Lone Ranger were close on the mark for 1957 though as were Bilko and his associates. You could also have Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis warring against each other too.

You could go for Socs (pronounced Soshes) for rivals to the Greasers though, they were the white liberal 'rich kids' as featured in  'The Outsiders' film/novel.

Offline carlos marighela

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Re: What other miniatures/factions would you like to see?
« Reply #47 on: 25 March 2010, 09:59:16 AM »
Jets and Sharks were more 1960+ you'll be asking for Johnny and 'Baby' figures next.  ;)

Actually Jim, the first Broadway production of Westside Story took place in 1957. Hence my earlier remark that you can't get more 1957 than that.
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Re: What other miniatures/factions would you like to see?
« Reply #48 on: 26 March 2010, 09:06:34 PM »
I would like some classic US cops, either NYPD or LAPD. Plenty from the Prohibition era but would like some later variants.

Offline Arlequín

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Re: What other miniatures/factions would you like to see?
« Reply #49 on: 26 March 2010, 10:36:01 PM »
Actually Jim, the first Broadway production of Westside Story took place in 1957. Hence my earlier remark that you can't get more 1957 than that.

Fair point, but to me it's like saying James Bond is 50's because that's when the books were published as opposed to the 60's when the films were released. That said there isn't a great deal of difference in styles in the 5 years between Broadway and film for WSS. The Jets and Sharks are certainly an alternative to the jeans/leather jacket combo though so it would get my vote.  :) 

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Re: What other miniatures/factions would you like to see?
« Reply #50 on: 27 March 2010, 01:16:40 AM »
Baron Manfred von Richthofen armed with a mauser pistol.
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Re: What other miniatures/factions would you like to see?
« Reply #51 on: 27 March 2010, 02:43:21 AM »
Baron Manfred von Richthofen armed with a mauser pistol.

 :? Wouldn’t he be a little old in 1957 ?
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Re: What other miniatures/factions would you like to see?
« Reply #52 on: 27 March 2010, 05:23:50 AM »
Not if accompanied by a small Beagle in a flying helmet.

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Re: What other miniatures/factions would you like to see?
« Reply #53 on: 27 March 2010, 12:46:37 PM »
Not if accompanied by a small Beagle in a flying helmet.

Ah… now I get it… lol

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Re: What other miniatures/factions would you like to see?
« Reply #54 on: 27 March 2010, 01:07:04 PM »
Ah… now I get it… lol
That segues right into another bunch:

Hapless bald kid with sweater w/zigzag stripe.
Aforementioned Beagle
Wise/geeky kid with blanket, sucking thumb
Music snob kid with mini-piano
Irate Fussbudget girl brandishing fist
Bluff Tomboyish girl with baseball bat
Grimy slobbish kid (how do you sculpt a cloud of dust?)

some might have special abilities:
"not-Pigpen"--smokescreen/teargas effect at close range
"not-Linus"--use of blanket as whip/sling.
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Re: What other miniatures/factions would you like to see?
« Reply #55 on: 29 March 2010, 12:12:14 PM »
Now that kid gang would be awesome!
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Re: What other miniatures/factions would you like to see?
« Reply #56 on: 29 March 2010, 01:10:24 PM »
Undead range hands, old west types from the plains, possibly some post apoc type Indians

Offline Arlequín

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Re: What other miniatures/factions would you like to see?
« Reply #57 on: 29 March 2010, 03:43:51 PM »
A Vegas Vic and an Ira Hayes combi would be interesting. Okay Mr Hayes died in 1955, but we could twist things a tad and maybe a post-nuclear wasteland would cause him to step-up and drag him away from the bottle.

Offline carlos marighela

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Re: What other miniatures/factions would you like to see?
« Reply #58 on: 29 March 2010, 08:01:45 PM »
Undead range hands, old west types from the plains, possibly some post apoc type Indians

So a sort of Zombie Brokeback Mountain?

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Re: What other miniatures/factions would you like to see?
« Reply #59 on: 30 March 2010, 02:08:42 AM »
So a sort of Zombie Brokeback Mountain?
to quote one of my semi-valley-girlish coworkers:

"Um. Eww."
The Back might not be the only thing broken in the throes of zombielove.

 

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