Buzz
Private 2
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2008
- Messages
- 85
To date, I've never actually had the guts to make any "requests" to Andy, but after looking at the 1917 Great War series, I give in.
Andy, while many of us can't afford to furnish entire rooms with your outstanding soldiers, you've really cornered the market on the most beautiful toy soldiers out there. I know that some collectors have complained in the past about how "clean" the colors and lines of your soldiers are, but that's precisely what makes them "pop" at a distance of 5 feet, whereas Conte and ONTC fade into the background.
Your new WWI troops are no different. I caved in and purchased Kaiser Wilhelm II. Most of your WWII personality figures have been generals (particularly German generals), but consider the following Great War personality figures:
Siegfried "Mad Jack" Sassoon, charging a German position with Mills bomb in each hand--for which he was decorated.
Wilfred Owen: penning a letter home to mother or a draft of "Dulce et Decorum Est"
Ernst Junger (who famously fought at Cambrai and later wrote about it in "Storm of Steel") -- put him an an action pose with the pour le merite (though he didn't earn it until 1918 after his last wounding).
Erich Maria Remarque
Otto Dix, the machine gunner with a copy of Also Sprach Zarathustra in his tunic and who later painted such graphic scenes of wartime brutality. Sketching a scene next to his MG.
These are only a few suggestions. I know there are so many more.
Thanks for a brilliant product, and don't mind the grumblers. You have yet to produce a figure that was anything less than outstanding.
Andy, while many of us can't afford to furnish entire rooms with your outstanding soldiers, you've really cornered the market on the most beautiful toy soldiers out there. I know that some collectors have complained in the past about how "clean" the colors and lines of your soldiers are, but that's precisely what makes them "pop" at a distance of 5 feet, whereas Conte and ONTC fade into the background.
Your new WWI troops are no different. I caved in and purchased Kaiser Wilhelm II. Most of your WWII personality figures have been generals (particularly German generals), but consider the following Great War personality figures:
Siegfried "Mad Jack" Sassoon, charging a German position with Mills bomb in each hand--for which he was decorated.
Wilfred Owen: penning a letter home to mother or a draft of "Dulce et Decorum Est"
Ernst Junger (who famously fought at Cambrai and later wrote about it in "Storm of Steel") -- put him an an action pose with the pour le merite (though he didn't earn it until 1918 after his last wounding).
Erich Maria Remarque
Otto Dix, the machine gunner with a copy of Also Sprach Zarathustra in his tunic and who later painted such graphic scenes of wartime brutality. Sketching a scene next to his MG.
These are only a few suggestions. I know there are so many more.
Thanks for a brilliant product, and don't mind the grumblers. You have yet to produce a figure that was anything less than outstanding.