Charlie Battle now available

[Musketeer]

This little fella is now available as part of our Hazels Heroes collection.

A plucky young British Tommy of WW1.



http://www.musketeer-miniatures.com/store.php?r=10&rule=Historical&id=34

Bill T 

[Bugsda]

So good I'll praise it twice

Nice one D'Artagnan 

[pbeccas]

Nice figure and very tempting.  Hows he going to match up size wise to my Great War Miniatures?
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Paul

[Invicta]

Nice figure, I saw him over on FU-UK. He's close to the top of my list. I'll have to get him from the UK, as the US stockist hasn't got him yet

[joroas]

He looks like Willem Dafoe in Platoon................

[Plynkes]

It's "NOT" Charley Bourne from the classic British comic strip "Charley's War" from the 70s/80s...



Oddly enough, while a great figure it doesn't really capture the typical Charley. From that you would think he was some kind of US Rambo-type war story character. That was one exceptional moment when he saves his pals from the nasty German "Judgement Troopers." Most of the time he wasn't heroic at all, just a Tommy trying to survive life in the trenches. A large part of the strip was merely trench life and behind the lines, rather than out-and-out action. It was a funny sort of strip, which mixed the violence kids love with a very sombre anti-war message. Much of the time the enemy is protrayed as being the upper classes that have got them into this mess, rather than the Germans. Very much in the pacifist traditon of Great War writing (All Quiet.., Journey's End, etc.), but with lots of cool comic violence to make it palatable to youngsters like me.

I absolutely loved it as a kid, and am collecting the new graphic novel reprint editions as they come out (there have been about three or four so far). I would say it was this strip that got me interested in the Great War. These images are representative of the tone of the average storyline (though there was quite a lot of fighting in it too):










Be great to have models of the rest of the characters. And a more typical Charley one where he is just moping about, or joking with his pals.

Not a criticism, though, just absent-minded musing. I do love the figure.

[joroas]

well, now I've learnt something new...................

[WillieB]

Nah, this isn't Charly at all.

It's Raul Antonio Vargas containing  he fascists' breakthrough during the Teruel counterattack in 1937.

Or at least that's what he'll be when I get my hands on him...

Really nice figure!

Oh and he'll probably be resurrected in the IWI as well as a very, very nasty but brave  Black and Tan NCO.