Third Afghan War

[Ignatieff]

We will do better than that!

[carlos marighela]

Don't be so circumspect, say what you mean... 

I think, at least in this particular instance, that Hammers should be credited for his considerable self restraint and admired for his very English use of understatement.

[Captain Blood]

Hammers is a connoisseur in these things, and long ago adopted a policy of calling a spade a spade. Much to be admired in my view, given the excessive politeness of so many wargamers  about ranges / products which are manifestly not up to snuff.

[Ignatieff]

Hammers is a connoisseur in these things, and long ago adopted a policy of calling a spade a spade. Much to be admired in my view, given the excessive politeness of so many wargamers  about ranges / products which are manifestly not up to snuff.

I second that...

[Hammers]

Thank you. I was going to say that "if my children had come out looking like Tiger Miniature Afghans I would throttle them in their cradles out of mercy". While a powerful parable I thought better of it since it is a bit silly, not true and quite frankly rather tasteless.

[Hammers]

On this topic I wish one of the appropriate companies would make plastic Afghans irregulars with optional firearms (jezzails, Martini-Henrry, Enfileds). Beside sniping from hills, most accounts from the Afghan Wars talks about masses of Afghans coming swarming towards forts and cantonments. This is not always easy to achieve with just the current Foundry selection.

[smirnoff]

Having wiped the froth off myself after hearing this range may be on it's way here is what I would like :

1. Pathan irregulars.  Armed to the teeth. Lean, cruel and wolf like. Mixture of modern (enfields and nagants) and obsolete (martini henry's). Infantry and cavalry
2. Afghan militia.  Gormless, but steady in defence. infantry only
3. Basmachis.  Infantry and cavalry.

Eye theng yew.

[HerbyF]

There are Fugures from Askari & Castaway Arts also. They mix quite nicely with Foundry, a little taller but mix well. Oh yes Ratnik does some very nice Basmachis figures too, already armed for this period. Excuse me I was in error that is Studio Siberia not Ratnik that does the Basmachis.

[carlos marighela]

Thank you. I was going to say that "if my children had come out looking like Tiger Miniature Afghans I would throttle them in their cradles out of mercy". While a powerful parable I thought better of it since it is a bit silly, not true and quite frankly rather tasteless.

Had my children come out like Tiger miniatures I would have accused my wife of having had an affair with a Bolivian hunchback. Fortunately my children are quite beautiful, more at the Perry end of the sculpting scale. I lay no claim to this wonderful outcome, it's entirely due to their mother. My daughter's delight in flatulence as a source of humour is about my only influence near as I can tell.

[Steve F]

If I had children made of a tin/lead alloy, I'd be deeply worried even if they looked like Tom Meier sculpts.

[carlos marighela]

Second the plaintive cry for plastic Afghans. I doubt it will be realised in my lifetime but who knows.

Actually, come to tink of it plastic ones already exist but they're 54mm/ 1/32 soft plastic.

[carlos marighela]

If I had children made of a tin/lead alloy, I'd be deeply worried even if they looked like Tom Meier sculpts.

I would make them easier to sell on ebay though. 

[Hammers]

There are Fugures from Askari & Castaway Arts also. They mix quite nicely with Foundry, a little taller but mix well. Oh yes Ratnik does some very nice Basmachis figures too, already armed for this period.

I find that Castaway can look nice but not consistently so. The horsemen are the worst looking like tapir cavalry.

it's not Ratnik you are talking about though, is it? Its cuprum's Siberia Basmachi you are talking about, I think. They look very good.

[carlos marighela]

I find that Castaway can look nice but not consistently so. The horsemen are the worst looking like tapir cavalry.

it's not Ratnik you are talking about though, is it? Its cuprum's Siberia Basmachi you are talking about, I think. They look very good.

Quite so. There are some wonderful Castway figures but the NWF tribal types, of which I have a selection, are not the greatest. The 1880s British Infantry on the other hand are really very nice.

[Captain Blood]

Second the plaintive cry for plastic Afghans. I doubt it will be realised in my lifetime but who knows.

Well if the Perrys managed plastic ansar, you wouldn't have thought plastic Pathans would be too much of a stretch. And given that the ansar are their only plastic colonial set so far, perhaps plastic Pathans would be a logical range extension? Esp as a lot of the metals in their Sudan range are more or less suitable for the NWF 

However, I probably shouldn't be speculating on such things in the midst of Ignatieff's thread about his own forthcoming NWF range, which I'm very much looking forward to