Cooplestone - Sailors, Guns, Czechs

[Boggler]

What I want now is some sailor gun crew and a Lewis gunner or two.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

in the town where I was born (lost in the Great steppe, former cossacks outpost), somewhere in the today's north Kazakhstan, we had a Czech legion cemetery, in the middle of the city, a really old one, with some moss-covered gravestones and broken wooden crucifixes. It was a little cemetary, maybe 20x40 meters and full of weeds. Czech forces went through the town one day and have leaved their deads and casualties. The result was that little cemetery. I was a litle boy of five when I saw it first time and I was really haunted, my friend (a boy of six) said, look, there the gravestones of the Czechs. Who are Czhechs, me asked. No idea, he said, some monsters, I guess...Now I was really haunted...The Czechs...

that was the first time I've heard of Czech Legion

[Hammers]

in the town where I was born (lost in the Great steppe, former cossacks outpost), somewhere in the today's north Kazakhstan, we had a Czech legion cemetery, in the middle of the city, a really old one, with some moss-covered gravestones and broken wooden crucifixes. It was a little cemetary, maybe 20x40 meters and full of weeds. Czech forces went through the town one day and have leaved their deads and casualties. The result was that little cemetery. I was a litle boy of five when I saw it first time and I was really haunted, my friend (a boy of six) said, look, there the gravestones of the Czechs. Who are Czhechs, me asked. No idea, he said, some monsters, I guess...Now I was really haunted...The Czechs...

that was the first time I've heard of Czech Legion

Lovely story. :-)

[tsar1701]

Yes, excellant story  

[Plynkes]

That is touching, the thought of that lonely haunting place, where their bones rest, so far from home.



But you know me, I can never stay serious for long. Now we discover more about our mysterious Prof, and find that he hails from Kazakhstan, whenever he types anything I'm going to have trouble picturing him in any way but this:

[PeteMurray]

in the town where I was born (lost in the Great steppe, former cossacks outpost), somewhere in the today's north Kazakhstan, we had a Czech legion cemetery, in the middle of the city, a really old one, with some moss-covered gravestones and broken wooden crucifixes. It was a little cemetary, maybe 20x40 meters and full of weeds. Czech forces went through the town one day and have leaved their deads and casualties. The result was that little cemetery. I was a litle boy of five when I saw it first time and I was really haunted, my friend (a boy of six) said, look, there the gravestones of the Czechs. Who are Czhechs, me asked. No idea, he said, some monsters, I guess...Now I was really haunted...The Czechs...

that was the first time I've heard of Czech Legion

That is a great story.

We're going to get Mike Mignola to do a graphic novel of your stories.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

But you know me, I can never stay serious for long. Now we discover more about our mysterious Prof, and find that he hails from Kazakhstan, whenever he types anything I'm going to have trouble picturing him in any way but this:

oh no, not Borat, please, good lord!

I was wondering when something like this would come, just thought it would take longer  

[Prof.Witchheimer]

We're going to get Mike Mignola to do a graphic novel of your stories.

Mignola would be the right man for a Czech story, jawohl!

[Driscoles]

Plynkes !

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You crack me up !

[Poliorketes]

That is touching, the thought of that lonely haunting place, where their bones rest, so far from home.



But you know me, I can never stay serious for long. Now we discover more about our mysterious Prof, and find that he hails from Kazakhstan, whenever he types anything I'm going to have trouble picturing him in any way but this:

I never thought Plynkes would be the first member ever to be banned on this forum  ::

[PeteMurray]

Stop talking about Poly and let's talk about how awesome the Czech Legion was.

They took an armored train! They decorated boxcars with devotional images! They put artillery on flatboats and made a navy! They had a one-eyed commander who wasn't Jan Zizka! Freakin' Trotsky was scared of them!

[Westfalia Chris]

Stop talking about Poly and let's talk about how awesome the Czech Legion was.

They took an armored train! They decorated boxcars with devotional images! They put artillery on flatboats and made a navy! They had a one-eyed commander who wasn't Jan Zizka! Freakin' Trotsky was scared of them!

So what you want to say is that those Czechs pretty much kept the Bolsheviks over there in check?

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Nice figures! I´ll have to get some more sailors now... dangity-dang.

[Poliorketes]

Stop talking about Poly and let's talk about how awesome the Czech Legion was.

They took an armored train! They decorated boxcars with devotional images! They put artillery on flatboats and made a navy! They had a one-eyed commander who wasn't Jan Zizka! Freakin' Trotsky was scared of them!

I guess you're no longer wondering why some of us got nuts on the news that Copplestone started Czechs. And why I pray 5Star will do this one in 1/48 one day (they do it in 1/35 and 1/72)

[redzed]

Stop talking about Poly and let's talk about how awesome the Czech Legion was.

They took an armored train! They decorated boxcars with devotional images! They put artillery on flatboats and made a navy! They had a one-eyed commander who wasn't Jan Zizka! Freakin' Trotsky was scared of them!

I get all that but....

They decorated boxcars with devotional images!

could you elaborate please

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Czechs in Mongolia, how cool ist that!



I wonder if Mark is going to make a command pack for the Czechs. Hope that.

that reminds me of the Corto Maltese sibirian book