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Author Topic: copplestone Brits v Woodbine Turks  (Read 3276 times)

Offline itchy

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copplestone Brits v Woodbine Turks
« on: November 07, 2011, 09:48:38 PM »
Hi ,I have got the chance to get some cheap copplestone ww1 Brits and from another chap some cheap woodbine Turks are the copplestone figures that big it would look too out of place to have them on opposing sides ?

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Re: copplestone Brits v Woodbine Turks
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2011, 10:27:22 PM »
Yes. Totally incompatible. Parcel them up and post them to me  ;)

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Re: copplestone Brits v Woodbine Turks
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2011, 10:48:15 PM »
The Copplestone Brits are quite a bit larger than the Woodbine Turks. Famously so.

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Re: copplestone Brits v Woodbine Turks
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2011, 09:10:18 AM »
Hi ,I have got the chance to get some cheap copplestone ww1 Brits and from another chap some cheap woodbine Turks are the copplestone figures that big it would look too out of place to have them on opposing sides ?

If they are on opposing sides, I dont see that there is a problem as you're not mixing them up in the same unit & your forgetting one thing The British Tommy is bound to be a much Larger healthier chap than the dastardly Jonny Turk  :D

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Re: copplestone Brits v Woodbine Turks
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2011, 09:29:58 AM »
Old Thomas Atkins could be pretty puny too. Country boys tended to be big strapping lads, but soldiers recruited from the urban poor were often wretched, scrawny little beggars.


That fellow at the front is clearly not a Copplestone figure. Whoever took this photo mixes their manufacturers.  ;)
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Re: copplestone Brits v Woodbine Turks
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2011, 09:54:35 AM »
Old Thomas Atkins could be pretty puny too. Country boys tended to be big strapping lads, but soldiers recruited from the urban poor were often wretched, scrawny little beggars.

How dare you insinuate that the Loyal British Tommy is inferior   :D


That fellow at the front is clearly not a Copplestone figure. Whoever took this photo mixes their manufacturers.  ;)

Blimey you forget how different people are till you see photos  :D

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Re: copplestone Brits v Woodbine Turks
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2011, 10:35:51 AM »

That fellow at the front is clearly not a Copplestone figure.

That's malamute.

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Re: copplestone Brits v Woodbine Turks
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2011, 12:54:07 PM »
Love that photo the little chaps got quite a stride there to keep up  lol  i think I will take both lots and if they look toyally out will sell on the turks to help fund some Copplestone ones , although the range of turks is not that varied .The copplestone lot has a command pack 2 infantry pks lmgs and hmgs plus a pack of Indian inf all untouhed for £15.00 ,so is unmissable really the woodbine stuff saves about 20% on retail and the chaps local so no P&P .Thanks for help

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Re: copplestone Brits v Woodbine Turks
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2011, 01:04:39 PM »
There are always the Brigade Games' Turks to flesh out your Copplestones. I am apparently the only person alive who doesn't find the Copplestone Brits to be disproportionately large. Either I have poorer eyesight or laxer standards of measurement than others but they work for me.
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Re: copplestone Brits v Woodbine Turks
« Reply #9 on: November 08, 2011, 01:20:25 PM »
Doesn't bother me too much either. My Great War collection is a right old mix of differently-sized buggers.

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Re: copplestone Brits v Woodbine Turks
« Reply #10 on: November 08, 2011, 01:53:56 PM »
Either I have poorer eyesight or laxer standards of measurement than others but they work for me.

...not to mention bad posture and poor table manners. ;)

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Re: copplestone Brits v Woodbine Turks
« Reply #11 on: November 08, 2011, 01:58:50 PM »
That chap at the front of the column looks perfectly fine to me


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Re: copplestone Brits v Woodbine Turks
« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2011, 04:03:56 PM »
Sorry Mr Hawtry ,Carry on.

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Re: copplestone Brits v Woodbine Turks
« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2012, 06:18:44 PM »
Hi
I think it is perfectly fine and infact preferable to have a mix of figures in our units.
The only issue for me is equipement.......it all has to be similar size and bulk.
I havnt seen the Copplestone Brits..........is there any such place as a comparison site showing all the WW1 manufacturers ranges lined up?.........If not, it would be very usefull

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