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Mascleo

Also another little of factoid for you as well.

At the end of 1937 in small milling town near here in the North East of England (Consett) there was over 3 miles of Black cloth to a very specific type sent to Germany for uniforms! There has been a local film and book on the story and they say that they did not know that the cloth was going to be used to make the uniforms!

It always reminds me of a vegertarian who moans on about killing animals and then wears leather shoes or chews gum! :rolleyes:

Tony
 
I know what you are saying Tony,i loathe the Japenese scum who tortured and murdered Allied soldiers in WW2,but i still drive a Honda.:rolleyes:

Rob
 
Hey guys, besides a nice parade of highlanders, there is not a cooler display for a parade than the berlin series germans. Although i would like to assemble a french napoleonic parade. I guess i am hooked on all the military music. I love garryowen played by a pipe band as well as several german marches.
 
HAWKEYE said:
Hey guys, besides a nice parade of highlanders, there is not a cooler display for a parade than the berlin series germans. Although i would like to assemble a french napoleonic parade. I guess i am hooked on all the military music. I love garryowen played by a pipe band as well as several german marches.
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I'd add Imperial German to that list. Their parade uniforms contained all of the traditional colors and attributes, handed down from the 1700s and maintained through the Napoleonic Wars and the Wars of Unification, and preserving details for the individual states that made up the old Reich.

Prost!
Brad
 
Andanna said:
I think that there are some units, particularly LAH, where it is difficult separating the models from the war crimes of the originals. You would not get such a reaction with most other SS units like Hohenstauffen or Frundsberg.
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The Average person does not see it this way, all they see is the black uniforms and swaticas. The average person who has a general understanding of history doesn't know one SS unit from the other, to them, they are all bad. My unfinished LAH parade dio draws the most attention from people who visit my house, and every one of them has something good or bad to say about it. Most people just don't understand why I collect it at all.
 
theBaron said:
I'd add Imperial German to that list. Their parade uniforms contained all of the traditional colors and attributes, handed down from the 1700s and maintained through the Napoleonic Wars and the Wars of Unification, and preserving details for the individual states that made up the old Reich.

Prost!
Brad
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The Baron is right..a band celebrating the victory over the French in 1870 could be really gorgeous..
 
hey baron your right. sadley i put off buying the guard corps imperial prussian parade sets and then when i had the funds the owner passed on. of course we probably all have some of those stories.
 
gentlemen,

Although I have a little problem with the LAH range. My father fought in 1940 against the Germans in the 4 day's Holland was able to defend itself before Rotterdam was Bombed. A your later he was taken away to Germany for slavelabor and nearly survived the war. He did not want to talk about this time. It hurt him to much as he has seen a lot we can't understand today.
So I opposed to any glorification of the Third Reich.

Seeing the Berghoff range and the AH range I opposed to it as a result of my fathers treatment during the war. But it made me think. I do collect Crusaders, Napoleon and other ranges. The crusaders where not so kind either, Napoleon conquered Europe and stole about anything he could use, including foreign soldiers and artifacts. The Brits where also involved in some gruesome wars against locals, includng americans. So in the long run, everything will become history. In taking intrest in the figures and as I noticed knowing much more aout the period than most people I understand that these ranges are popular. As I like he crusaders because of their armor and shield knowing the terrible background of the figures. You like these ranges ,I repect that.

greetings
 
Well said Richard. i think that collecting a soldier representing a regime do not endorse automatically that regime..i understand many people are shocked seeing a nazi parade in miniature but as someone said in a former post often we concentrate on the barbaries of the past and don't look at the genocides happening today (Rwanda is one of them..no nation moved a finger then), reminds me of the period between the 2 wars when someone said there'll be no more wars after the shocking experience of WWI and we have seen the result..as for me i'm not shocked by a parade of soldiers , i'm shocked by what i see every day happening in every part of the globe..and regarding objects one day a friend of mine showed me a heavy ring that was applied to the feet of the black slaves..that really shocked me..that object made a person to suffer and maybe die..not a miniature figure.
 
Yes i agree.We also live in a free world thanks to the sacrafice of a previous generation,and can collect anything we like.For me personally i would not collect LAH as to be honest it turns my stomach a little to think of the Nazis parading their ideals and idols up and down.However just because i don't like them doesn't mean i can't also see the appeal they may have to others.I hope none of you would judge ME because i collect Barbie Dol.......JOKE!:eek::D;)

Rob
 
HAWKEYE said:
hey baron your right. sadley i put off buying the guard corps imperial prussian parade sets and then when i had the funds the owner passed on. of course we probably all have some of those stories.
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Hi, Hawkeye, some of the line is still being produced in China, by Fair Tech HK:

http://www.fairtechhk.com/Attachmen... Toys Soldier/Page 05 attachment - Keiser.htm

At one point, after Ed Lober had passed away, I think it was, and the future of Guard Corps was up in the air, I think Alan Silk was working with Fair Tech to take over casting, and maybe painting, too. Then Alan passed away. I'm not sure of the details (at Hackensack, a dealer started to talk about it, but didn't finish), but Fair Tech is still producing most of the Guard Corp catalog.

For the "Kaiser's Birthday Parade", they have the review party available, but as of now, they don't seem to have the grenadier figures in the catalog.

For Civil War fans, they also have some of the Guard Corp Civil War figures currently up on their site, though not the bands.

Prost!
Brad
 
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hi brad, thanks for the info, i am definitley going to check it out.
 
I think the LAH series with their sinister black uniforms are from an interesting historical era, well sculpted, but personify evil and therefore I find them repugnant. I'll look at pictures and admire the craftmanship but taking the next step to display a large number of them in my home will never happen. If I ever did I'm sure my family, friends and colleagues would probably think I'm a fascist sympathizer and either cut my hair or buy me a pointed hat and white bedsheet!
 
Cyber Field Marshall said:
I think the LAH series with their sinister black uniforms are from an interesting historical era, well sculpted, but personify evil and therefore I find them repugnant. I'll look at pictures and admire the craftmanship but taking the next step to display a large number of them in my home will never happen. If I ever did I'm sure my family, friends and colleagues would probably think I'm a fascist sympathizer and either cut my hair or buy me a pointed hat and white bedsheet!
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Yep thats pretty much it in a nutshell.

Rob
 
Rob said:
Yep thats pretty much it in a nutshell.

Rob
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The part I find hard to grasp is why are these are any different that say a German in camouflage with a gun. They are all depicting Germans during the war, apparently the one with guns seem more acceptable ???
 
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