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It is my great pleasure to announce that Quatre Bras sets are now available for pre-order on our site ( www.thecollectorsshowcase.com ). You may also place you pre-order with your favorite dealer as well, please see our " where to buy " section for a dealer near you.

Be advised: Sets are limited to 300 and are anticipated to be sold out upon their arrival to the U.S.

Happy Collecting!

Brian


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For the people that called to preorder all sets based on the ad, do they get the special price of $799.99 plus free shipping? They look great by the way. :cool: And when do these ship September? :)
 
Jagdpanther said:
For the people that called to preorder all sets based on the ad, do they get the special price of $799.99 plus free shipping? They look great by the way. :cool: And when do these ship September? :)
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Looks more like the end of October. The set special includes shipping of course. Our dealer network will honor that special as well.

Best regards,

Brian
 
Brian,

Will TM Terrain be picking up the NAPs as well?

Rgds

Andy
 
Just an observation, but shouldn't the drummer be wearing a yellow coat? Apart from the Guard and Royal Regiments who had blue facings and as such the drummers wore red coats, the line Regiments such as the 28th had the drummers and other musicians dressed in coats of the Regts facing colour.

Jeff
 

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aujj65 said:
Just an observation, but shouldn't the drummer be wearing a yellow coat? Apart from the Guard and Royal Regiments who had blue facings and as such the drummers wore red coats, the line Regiments such as the 28th had the drummers and other musicians dressed in coats of the Regts facing colour.

Jeff
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Thanks goodness that you can brilliantly repaint anything..But you sure ruined it for the rest of us no-talent bums..:DMichael
 
aujj65 said:
Just an observation, but shouldn't the drummer be wearing a yellow coat? Apart from the Guard and Royal Regiments who had blue facings and as such the drummers wore red coats, the line Regiments such as the 28th had the drummers and other musicians dressed in coats of the Regts facing colour.

Jeff
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Jeff brings up a very good observation. I would like to hear about this point and get an educated concensus as to the correct answer in this regard. We did however choose this old style based on the below historic observation:

After the prince regent came to power he immediately initiated dandified uniform changes throughout the British armies, this does not necessarily mean that every regiment or company would be able to initiate this changes in a timely manner due to cost restraints and availabliity of materials. Therefore many regiments utilized old uniform standards until new uniforms arrived. Hence the differences in the facings coat colors, shako plates and even shakos in many cases.

There is no real right or wrong so the point made by Jeff is in act valid with the above caveat in mind.

If any other users have an opinion on this point it would be great to hear. Thanks for the interest!

Best regards,

Brian
 
Hate to be a killjoy but the 28th Rgmt. (North Gloucestershire) was wearing the old style stovepipe shako during the Waterloo campaign, not the new style Belgic shako as presented on these nice new CS figures. The 28th wearing their old shakos is well noted in many sources because the headgear was unique in having a shako plate in front AND and in back. This can be seen on color plate 2 "The Waterloo Companion" by Mark Adkin and "Uniforms of Waterloo", Philip Haythornthwaite, color plate 13.

Often good reference books that have the Lady Butler painting of the 28th Rgmt. will mention her error in portraying them in the wrong, new style shako which they did not wear in the Waterloo Campaign even though many of the other line regiments had made the switch.
 
Dragoon said:
Hate to be a killjoy but the 28th Rgmt. (North Gloucestershire) was wearing the old style stovepipe shako during the Waterloo campaign, not the new style Belgic shako as presented on these nice new CS figures. The 28th wearing their old shakos is well noted in many sources because the headgear was unique in having a shako plate in front AND and in back. This can be seen on color plate 2 "The Waterloo Companion" by Mark Adkin and "Uniforms of Waterloo", Philip Haythornthwaite, color plate 13.

Often good reference books that have the Lady Butler painting of the 28th Rgmt. will mention her error in portraying them in the wrong, new style shako which they did not wear in the Waterloo Campaign even though many of the other line regiments had made the switch.
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As noted in our pomo material: Our sets are based completely on Lady Butlers Quatre Bras painting, please note the shakos being worn.

This we knew going in: you are however totally correct, if we hadn't used the painting as our inspiration this should be the case. However we were eager to portray the 28th exactly as she did.

Thanks for your input though!:)

all the best,

Brian
 
The Collectors Showcase said:
As noted in our pomo material: Our sets are based completely on Lady Butlers Quatre Bras painting, please note the shakos being worn.

This we knew going in: you are however totally correct, if we hadn't used the painting as our inspiration this should be the case. However we were eager to portray the 28th exactly as she did.

Thanks for your input though!:)

all the best,

Brian
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Brian
Can you post an image of the Lady Butler painting.
Those are really cool figures you have there.
Regards
Damian
 
Brian, Well the figures do look great and they certainly do capture the strength and emotion of Lady Butlers painting. Looking forward to getting some in the near future. - Ken
 
First I would have to hear how good they look first before I start buying them.
 
UK_BOD said:
Brian,

Will TM Terrain be picking up the NAPs as well?

Rgds

Andy
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Yes we will be having them all. We should have them well in time for the December show. I am already thinking of a diorama for them!

David
TMterrain
 
damian said:
Brian
Can you post an image of the Lady Butler painting.
Those are really cool figures you have there.
Regards
Damian
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Damian,

I've just had a look at the link you were sent for the painting, but check it out with a ZOOM factor at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.

http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/collection/pub/itemDetail?artworkID=36439

Next time I get to Melbourne I'll have a close up look at this famous painting.

When I was in Sydney in July, I went to the NSW Art Gallery and found this one.
http://collection.artgallery.nsw.go...re1900&value-0=Western+Art/Pre-1900/Paintings

Rorke's Drift

and

Vive l'empereur

http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aboutus/conservation/vle_project/about_ptg

Magnificent :)

John
 
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