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I think Andy may have taken on board some of the adverse statements here previously - my own included - as he has firmly moved the series in the direction of a pre-War "Parade Ground" type series, with SS, SA, police, Wehrmacht, H/Jugend and so forth. I do not collect it personally but can see...

There was a website for the event but it is infuriatingly difficult to navigate, and there are endless pop-ups, several unexpected crashes when trying to open pages - http://www.mondial-modelisme.com/fr/accueil/visiter-facile/catalogue-exposants/...

Happy birthday Shannon, Congrats on the 2-year-old Forum too: it's a bouncing baby at this stage!

I have bought from Stefano Allorini in Saimex: http://www.saimextoys.it/ He is ok, but doesn't update his website as regularly as desirable, and the euro:dollar rate means that I'm buying from the USA at present. I have also bought quite a few items from Massimo Perencin of Il Modellismo...

It would appear to have been a lone shooter, but the early reports are still truly shocking if they prove accurate - several deliberate barricades and chokepoints established, sustained fire at prone wounded. It would appear that 2 specific locations were targeted, so there was some coherent...

I haven't seen that one yet. I think with all the endless TV courtroom drama series there is now perhaps a public exhaustion with the genre. (Even good stage plays or films - '12 Angry Men', 'To Kill a Mockingbird', 'A Few Good Men', 'Sophie Scholl: Die letzten Tags' - do not get the same TV...

Favourite K&C tank is probably the WS 14 Stug III, a great little model for its time, as there was nothing like it out there. Of the crop from more recent years, I really like some of the armoured/scout cars, eg the SdKfz 222, or the half-tracks such as the Demag, but the Dingo is excellent...

Ok trimmed a bit in quality but 3 very contrasting painting styles and levels of quality at 54mm.

Darrell, I have bought from Niena Studios on occasion. In the attached pic there's a Niena-painted Andrea Miniature. (I also enclose a Teutonic knight on foot from the Argo Studio - Alexsanra Bespalova is good to deal with there - and a mounted Teutonic knight from Grenada Studios, and an...

Welcome on board mk, I too collect St. Petersburg miniatures, but at 54mm. (The 90mm look stunning but when so many of them can cost $3,000 to $5,000 I almost feel I'd buy historical armour and weapons at that price bracket). The K&C Crusaders and Saracens are better than their Napoleonics but...

Scott, You'll probably have heard this already, but did you know that the WWII film about the Ludendorff Bridge "The Bridge at Remagen" actually helped the hardline Soviet elements to drum up a series of scare stories about American tanks moving for the Czech border to support a fifth-columnist...

I'm not sure if it's an "action scene" but the torture scene in 'The Marathon Man', when Dr Szell (Laurence Olivier) drills through Dustin Hoffman's teeth is more shocking than many battle scenes.

Perhaps there is confusion between ramjets such as Focke Wulf's "Super Lorin" http://www.luft46.com/fw/fwsuplor.html and Rammjager versions of the Focke Wulf 190: http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/axis/luft/cleaver190a8.htm (A simple A-8 with a ton of armour, not even the long-nosed...

Too many scenes to mention, but what about the massacre scene in Odessa in the "Battleship Potemkin"? The image of the pram clattering down the steps has been borrowed by countless other directors - it worked well in the Train Station (Union, Chicago?) shootout in The Untouchables. And you can...

Most of the details are available in electronic format on Bill Sager's site amongst others. In 2004 the Collector magazine was versioned into a general one and a UK one. (From Issue 7 onwards I think). Practically identical but the latter excised the general Hong Kong collector club material...

Looking at my previous list, and after all the subsequent posts, I can't help kicking myself for not mentioning the interrogation scenes in "Rome: Open City" and last year's movie about the White Rose movement "Sophie Scholl". These go to show that the menace of the Nazi regime doesn't even need...

Happy birthday Pete, Looks like this year you're lucky and it doesn't fall on Good Friday but I'm sure some years you end up celebrating your birthday with a carrot juice instead of a whiskey. Enjoy the day!

Bear in mind that the AeroArt heraldic tents sell for $500 or so: http://www.aeroartinc.com/display.asp?product=3538&col=St.%20Petersburg%20Collection I would imagine that the K&C ones would be cheaper but perhaps not that much cheaper - on the one hand their rarity tends towards high prices...

His "midsouth" e-mail address is now "comcast", so for those who have the 1st part of the address just change the service provider part (even though I gather that it's the same company, just one adverse outcome of mergers and acquisitions).

Some of the best "war movies" are probably war-related movies (eg Casablanca) or anti-war movies (eg Paths of Glory). I'm not sure whether Westerns such as 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' count as war movies. My list, in no particular order: Schlinder's List Gladiator Catch 22 Land and Freedom Great...