Recent content by Jedburgh

You won't see its like again can you imagine assembling that amount of extras. It would all be done by CGI nowadays.

Would love to see some Government Highlanders and the Irish Piquets.

Very suitable as camp followers.

Maybe. looking at their latest auction catalogue only five pages (three if you leave out the farmyard stuff and militaria). Used to be it took a good hour to look through. Maybe collectors are hanging on to their stuff or have found another sales outlet.

Looks like us Europeans will be getting figures cheaper than the U.S.

Their ad in the latest issue of Toy Soldier collector shows some upcoming release of some 1812 Retreat from Moscow French that look remarkably similar to FL.

The Netflix remake of Wages of Fear has a lot to live uo to given that both the French original and William Friedkins The Sorcererer are considered classics. I see the guy who plays Reacher in the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare trailer.

French trailer for Une Affaire d'honneur - English title will be The Edge of The Blade for some reason. Duelling in the 19th Century directed by Vincent Perez (La Reine Margot etc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM41OQIear8

Les Derniers Hommes - French trailer for a new film (February 2024). Set in 1945 it is about a rag- tag group of Legionaires. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEx5nxGQuU0

2024 film trailer set in Colonial New Zealand starring Guy Pearce. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI4Z7t3AZ5E

Joubert played by the late Max Von Sydow - whe seems to have been in everything - from the Knight in Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal to Star Wars. In the film he is meant to be from Alsace(the accent).

New trailer for James Clavells Shogun - coming February next year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXB6RC6UMZ4

I remember the Jimmy Stewart film F.B.I. Story. there was a short part about the Osage Killings in there.

Not really connected but the cost of repatriating a totem pole from Scotland to British Columbia is standing at £710,000 - of course ther is an ongoing 'stooshie'(arguement) of who foots the bill. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23794490.national-museum-scottish-government-row-nisgaa-pole-cost/

I don't know if anyone has these in their collection. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394823882681?hash=item5bed5657b9:g:UuQAAOSwbWtkIwGR