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So, what do yall think/hope will be the next strictly limited.

For me i hope its some Winter German armor, maybe a King Tiger.
 
A Dragon Wagon or a Bedford Lorry. :)
Someday, someday. :(
Hope springs eternal.:rolleyes:
:)
 
Winter 88 and M36 both sound awesome. Maybe we will see a strictly limited in the market garden series.
 
How about a 2-3 Jeep convoy bringing supplies and support to the Americans. In the Ardennes.
 
How about a new warbird, when do you think another one of those will come out?

MCKENNA
 
JS-2 Would be awesome, but i imagine that barrel would be tough.
 
rws591 said:
JS-2 Would be awesome, but i imagine that barrel would be tough.
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Yeah a JS-2 would be sweet. Was hoping a German transport aircraft could be done like a JU-52. But an FW189 or a Heinkel would be great to. There is just too much to choose from really.

MCKENNA
 

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A JS-2 would be great, but is the demand there. It puzzles me that the Russian Front items don't sell as well as the Normandy, Afrika Korps or the Battle of the Bulge. I'd also like to see a newer version of the mid-war T-34.
 
MCKENNA77 said:
Yeah a JS-2 would be sweet. Was hoping a German transport aircraft could be done like a JU-52. But an FW189 or a Heinkel would be great to. There is just too much to choose from really.

MCKENNA
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In the past K&C did both a JU52 and a Heinkel HE111, so who knows. By the way, in answer to your earleir inquiry, K&C has been releasing strictly limited aircraft at a rate of about one a month in runs of 10-20 of each. If you are interested in being kept apprised of the limited releases, just e-mail Andy or Tammi at K&C.
 
The Breaker said:
A JS-2 would be great, but is the demand there. It puzzles me that the Russian Front items don't sell as well as the Normandy, Afrika Korps or the Battle of the Bulge. I'd also like to see a newer version of the mid-war T-34.
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Okay, I may well be wrong here so please bear with me.
I think Normandy and Battle of the Bulge are so popular because the majority of collectors worldwide are American and there's an obvious emotional tie to these two areas of WW2 conflict. I also think there's the sub-conscious idea that these were just ordinary Joes performing extraordinary actions.

Could the AK be so polpular because there were no SS units involved (at least I don't think there were), so its perceived as a "clean" war. It was also a "little" war in the sense that there were lots of relatively small scale actions quite apart from the large scale battles. So there has to be some self-identification there (just like Normandy and BotB). Like for example, "What would I have done if I'd been leading that raid?".
I also think there's the feeling that we were up against a "good" German, and while Rommel was an incredibly tough opponent, he was also an honerable foe.

I probably haven't put this very well, but I think that a lot of us do identify consciously or not, with the men who found themselves involved in these conflicts. But we find it more difficult to identify or have much empathy with the Red Army, elements of whom were no better than the SS.

Just my tuppence-worth.
I'm not saying that American collectors aren't interested in anything that didn't involve US troops because that is patently absurd but I do think these are at least part of the reasons for the relative lack of interest in the Eastern Front.

Cheers
H
 
Peter Reuss said:
Arnhem....hmmm....was that a battle in the Russo Japanese war? Not sure I've heard of it...must be obscure...:rolleyes:
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Aye well, I possibly deserved that. I said that I probably didn't explain what I was meaning very well. However, I did also say;

"I'm not saying that American collectors aren't interested in anything that didn't involve US troops because that is patently absurd but I do think these are at least part of the reasons for the relative lack of interest in the Eastern Front".

Should probably added that each nationality TENDS to collect figures from those conflicts they feel an affinity for. I myself collect BotB, possibly cos I feel empathy for what were mostly untried troops of citizen soldiers - in the opening stages anyway, and I try to imagine how I would feel in their boots (cold, wet miserable and pretty scared is how it works out for me).

Just trying to explore some possible reasons why the Eastern Front doesn't seem to be universally popular, despite the fact there are some EF champions here on this forum, e.g. Debrito.
No baddness intended (this time).

Cheers
H
 
Harry, my jab was at arnhem44mad (for his constant Arnhem desires), not you (but if you want to claim it...;))

I think the eastern Front falls into the same category as Figarti's Chinese battlefield series (Chinese vs Japanese) for many people. People prefer 'good guys' against 'bad guys.' We do it all the time. Most movies have a clear hero and a clear villain. On the eastern front, there's a question as to who the 'good guys' are. Sure, the Nazi's are the 'bad guys' and the Russians are our allies, but there's such a feeling against communism in our culture that we hesitate to call them the 'good guys.' Add to that the fighting was ferocious, and we find little 'good' in it, other than the defeat of the Nazi regime.

Some of it probably does have to do with Americans wanting to get 'what Grandpa or dad had', but that's only a small part of it, IMHO.
 
I think it has something to do with the setting and, as Pete says, the opponents. Aside from Western Europe, which is where many people in the US hail from (not to ignore that many of us also come from Eastern Europe and Russia, along the pale of settlement), in the Western imagination there is something mystical, idyllic and alluring about the desert, be it Lawrence of Arabia or the North African war. To further the point, there is much more interest in the western desert phase than the Tunisian operation (not as much desert to enliven the imagination I'm afraid).

Just as the desert exercises some sort of hold on our imagination, there is something dark and forbidden about the mystical east and the "nomadic hordes" descending on the west, whether as cossacks or communists. After all Russia is half western and half asian and the scepter of the "asiatic hordes" descending upon the west has made western society shiver.

So, when you're going to collect, do you want something idyllic or something that exercises a dark hold on the imagination? Please do not get me wrong, I'm not defending these misconceptions about the east but they did -- and I think still do -- have a hold on the Western psyche as it's developed over the centuries.
 
Peter Reuss said:
Harry, my jab was at arnhem44mad (for his constant Arnhem desires), not you (but if you want to claim it...;))

I think the eastern Front falls into the same category as Figarti's Chinese battlefield series (Chinese vs Japanese) for many people. People prefer 'good guys' against 'bad guys.' We do it all the time. Most movies have a clear hero and a clear villain. On the eastern front, there's a question as to who the 'good guys' are. Sure, the Nazi's are the 'bad guys' and the Russians are our allies, but there's such a feeling against communism in our culture that we hesitate to call them the 'good guys.' Add to that the fighting was ferocious, and we find little 'good' in it, other than the defeat of the Nazi regime.

Some of it probably does have to do with Americans wanting to get 'what Grandpa or dad had', but that's only a small part of it, IMHO.
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Thanks Peter,
That's partly what I was trying to say as well. I can't find it within myself to have any affinity towards the Red Army who raped and pillaged their way across most of eastern europe (of course you can't generalize - there's good and bad everywhere).
I do think the AK is a popular subject because there's a perception that it was a "clean" war (if such a contradiction in terms is possible), with very few known atrocities committed by either side.
Anyway, no offense meant with my comments regarding American collectors maybe prefering subjects a little closer to home. Which kinda proves what I was getting at in my original post cos I've just obtained a fair amount of the LRDG/SAS releases - we all mostly have that tendency to lean towards prefering what's close to home. (Another generalization again).

Cheers
H
 
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