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Author Topic: Who makes the nice 28mm Buckingham Palace Guards with SMLE?  (Read 3290 times)

Offline chicklewis

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Who makes the nice 28mm Buckingham Palace Guards with SMLE?
« on: August 29, 2013, 12:11:43 AM »
I purchased a nice unit of fantasy-esque British Palace Guard with the tall bearskins, but carrying SMLE rifle, bayonet, ammo pouches, and combat harness.  Ready to paint 'em now, but I CanNOT remember who molded them.  I just spent the last 20 minutes searching here and on Theminiaturespage, and have failed to discover them.  Nothing molded into their bases.

Please assist, and if you can link me to photos of well-painted examples, I'll award extra points !

Thanks, and sorry for the poor search-fu. 

Chick
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Prof. Dinglebat. Phd.

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Re: Who makes the nice 28mm Buckingham Palace Guards with SMLE?
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2013, 01:03:10 AM »
Looks like them but their not carrying smle's  :?

Offline chicklewis

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Re: Who makes the nice 28mm Buckingham Palace Guards with SMLE?
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2013, 01:19:58 AM »
Nicely done fellows !

Full marks for Dinglebat !

(They surely look like SMLEs to me, but I have been wrong before.)

Prof. Dinglebat. Phd.

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Re: Who makes the nice 28mm Buckingham Palace Guards with SMLE?
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2013, 02:12:06 AM »
Nicely done fellows !

Full marks for Dinglebat !

(They surely look like SMLEs to me, but I have been wrong before.)

Yep my bad they are SMLE's 303's I got them mixed up with the SLR 7.62  ;D (Late night)

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Re: Who makes the nice 28mm Buckingham Palace Guards with SMLE?
« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2013, 06:18:23 AM »
They are not Eureka's? Those are the ones I have:




More in this link:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=15717.msg187400#msg187400

Offline argsilverson

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Re: Who makes the nice 28mm Buckingham Palace Guards with SMLE?
« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2013, 08:03:29 PM »
there are only two producers of guards with smle producers.
1.- eureka miniatures has only one pose.
2.- scarlet and gold is the producer of various sets of guards
here is a link;
http://www.scarletandgold.co.uk/

full of painted examples.
they do also beefeaters and other ceremonial figures and bands.
I do not have any of them, so I cannnot comment on size and style.
argsilverson

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Re: Who makes the nice 28mm Buckingham Palace Guards with SMLE?
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2013, 05:40:53 AM »
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2.- scarlet and gold is the producer of various sets of guards
here is a link;
http://www.scarletandgold.co.uk/


To a British person: do all these regimental marching bands still exist?! As far as I know we only have one military music corps in Sweden (except the Home Guard which seem to be able to be muster a set of sousaphones and butcher the March of Engelbrecht in every little parish around the country).

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Re: Who makes the nice 28mm Buckingham Palace Guards with SMLE?
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2013, 05:53:17 AM »
Hammers, try this clip. It's Trooping the Colour this year, a bit of a long clip but you get the picture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJAWGstS_hk


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Re: Who makes the nice 28mm Buckingham Palace Guards with SMLE?
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2013, 06:58:24 AM »
or try this official channel of the Edinburgh military Tattoo

http://www.youtube.com/user/EdinburghTattoo

the Brits and the former Empire are nuts about marching bands (in a positive sense, and since it is imperial tradition, it can definitely count as cultural preservation)
and since I am at it, I always wonder if they manage to invite Indian and Pakistani bands to the same event

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Re: Who makes the nice 28mm Buckingham Palace Guards with SMLE?
« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2013, 07:25:01 AM »
or try this official channel of the Edinburgh military Tattoo

http://www.youtube.com/user/EdinburghTattoo

the Brits and the former Empire are nuts about marching bands (in a positive sense, and since it is imperial tradition, it can definitely count as cultural preservation)
and since I am at it, I always wonder if they manage to invite Indian and Pakistani bands to the same event

I'd love to see the joined forces of Trinidad and Tobago invade and conquer France (should be an easy thing for them) just to see them do that victory steel drum march-cum-dance down the Champs Elysée.  lol

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Re: Who makes the nice 28mm Buckingham Palace Guards with SMLE?
« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2013, 07:25:51 AM »
2nd
 lol

 

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