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Offline Overlord

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Re: New Prussian armour
« Reply #15 on: October 13, 2008, 08:45:02 AM »
Nice work Bullshot.  8)
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Re: New Prussian armour
« Reply #16 on: October 13, 2008, 08:48:44 AM »
Gluteus, am I understanding you correctly? In games with flyers and land ironclads you're worrying about uniform details?  :)

The rifle the Germans used in the Great War was the Gewehr 98, so called because it came out in 1898. So just sneaks into the Victorian period. Before that they were using a different model of Mauser which looked a bit different but not so much as to worry about.


The German army switched to field grey in 1910, but the actual style of the uniform wasn't really very different to what came before other than the colour. Most of the Germans I've seen in VSF lately have been Renegade WWI figures with paint conversions. The Pickelhaube cover that really makes a figure look like it comes from the Great War was actually introduced in 1892, so isn't out of place in a late Victorian era game.
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Re: New Prussian armour
« Reply #17 on: October 13, 2008, 10:01:51 AM »
Excellent stuff,   More of it I say  :-*
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Offline Gluteus Maximus

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Re: New Prussian armour
« Reply #18 on: October 13, 2008, 10:15:00 AM »
Gluteus, am I understanding you correctly? In games with flyers and land ironclads you're worrying about uniform details?  :)

 lol   Yes, I am a sad git  :(

I'm not really too worried about minor details - as you say it is VSF, after all - I just like to have things look "right".

Thanks for the uniform help, I'll now be happy to paint 1914 Germans as 1890's Prussians!

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Re: New Prussian armour
« Reply #19 on: October 13, 2008, 10:31:09 AM »
Gluteus, am I understanding you correctly? In games with flyers and land ironclads you're worrying about uniform details?  :)

 lol   Yes, I am a sad git  :(

I'm not really too worried about minor details - as you say it is VSF, after all - I just like to have things look "right".

Thanks for the uniform help, I'll now be happy to paint 1914 Germans as 1890's Prussians!

Gluteus Old Boy if you are looking for an alternative Prussian army look at the Helion figures from the 1866 campaign. They are fairly new releases and very nice they are too.
http://www.wargames.helion.co.uk/default.asp?
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Offline Gluteus Maximus

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Re: New Prussian armour
« Reply #20 on: October 13, 2008, 11:10:53 AM »
Gluteus Old Boy if you are looking for an alternative Prussian army look at the Helion figures from the 1866 campaign. They are fairly new releases and very nice they are too.
http://www.wargames.helion.co.uk/default.asp?

Ah yes, those are lovely. They are very reasonably priced, too  :)

Having made a conscious decision to stop being sad and pedantic, I'll ignore the rifles as the differences probably aren't important anyway The only thing I can't see that would be necessary are artillerymen, but Bullshott's Irregular Minis look the part.

I seem to recognize those Helion figures from some splendid game and LPL photos posted a while ago and really should have remembered them ......   ;)


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Re: New Prussian armour
« Reply #21 on: October 13, 2008, 11:51:21 AM »
Gluteus, am I understanding you correctly? In games with flyers and land ironclads you're worrying about uniform details?  :)

 lol   Yes, I am a sad git  :(

I'm not really too worried about minor details - as you say it is VSF, after all - I just like to have things look "right".

Thanks for the uniform help, I'll now be happy to paint 1914 Germans as 1890's Prussians!

Gluteus Old Boy if you are looking for an alternative Prussian army look at the Helion figures from the 1866 campaign. They are fairly new releases and very nice they are too.
http://www.wargames.helion.co.uk/default.asp?

Yes they are nice figures. I have some few samples of them and they are  really nice, although a little slim compared to the renegade etc.
Sorry, I have no pics, but if you want I will check them against my other Prussians and will tell you.
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Re: New Prussian armour
« Reply #22 on: October 13, 2008, 12:22:43 PM »
Great stuff Sir H! I'm wondering what you've done with the turret. 
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Re: New Prussian armour
« Reply #23 on: October 13, 2008, 01:23:32 PM »
I love it! Quick question though; how do the crew get up/down from the roof? Is there a hatch we can't see, or is it a step-ladder job?
Looking forward to more.
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Re: New Prussian armour
« Reply #24 on: October 13, 2008, 08:54:27 PM »
I love it! Quick question though; how do the crew get up/down from the roof? Is there a hatch we can't see, or is it a step-ladder job?
Looking forward to more.

If you look closely at the pics you will see a hatch two hatches on the roof - one above each door (made with plasticard and plastic rod).
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Re: New Prussian armour
« Reply #25 on: October 14, 2008, 12:29:33 AM »
Great conversion. And nice to see Irregular Miniatures being used, they have a lot of useful stuff. 8)
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Offline Sterling Moose

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Re: New Prussian armour
« Reply #26 on: October 14, 2008, 02:06:24 AM »
Excellent.  Great to see so many credible contraptions coming out of the VSF stable.
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