Desertkiwi
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One of the funniest improvised scenes in movie history. Harrison Ford was supposed to fight the Cairo Swordsman with his whip but wasn't feeling well that day. As a joke he pulled his revolver and said "bang!" Spielberg loved it, and movie history was made. In Temple of Doom, they revisited the concept but with an empty gun. I guess Ford was feeling better that day. lol
What a diorama Louis. Absolutely fantasticFor me its a must have. It has to go on this Tanis Secret Airfield diorama Andy and Gordon made for me as a joke when I asked for a desert Axis airfield so I could do a LRDG/SAS Barce Raid scene (they actually removed a block behind the pharoah's head on top and made a hole for the "Snakes, why did it have to be snakes?" lost ark recovery scene at the top rear):
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Thomas Gunn produced some similar model planes, could be an opportunity for them to make that aircraft, maybe with Pilot and German mechanicNow I just need someone to make that funny looking German plane and the big Afrika Corps sergeant with his shirt off in a boxing pose.
Matt,Thomas Gunn produced some similar model planes, could be an opportunity for them to make that aircraft, maybe with Pilot and German mechanic![]()
Me too, classic scene. Lots of opportunities with this sub-theme.I'd definitely buy one if they produced it.
Hi Barkmann,Just got the Thomas Gunn Newsletter and some great releases,
New FFL artillery piece with crew
Two new German AFV crew
Second version of AFV crew
Professor Jones and one of his Enemies
New Ceremonial sets.
Teaser about a new AFV soon to be released.
Plus back in stock - the ARK of the Covenant - for those who could not find it first time around, well it has always been hard to find!!!!!!!!!!!!
See info on website, will not put in pictures as i know a fellow TFrogger does that, but thought for those who do not receive the newsletter a little peak around the website would be good.
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Cheers, do not collect FFL myself, just the messenger, have you got one or are you going off the pictures? You do know that people are all not the same size? Scale of figures against vehicle/AFVs is an issue for me, K & C, JJD and TGM tend to make the vehicles not exactly the same scale as the figures. I am not saying you are wrong and i am sure people can do the scale measurement once they have received it. We will have to take a scale measurement. Another thing for me is there is never enough gun crew and or accessories for artillery pieces, such as ammo, unfired and spent shells and ammo boxes.Hi Barkmann,
Just a wee caveat on the New FFL Artillery piece with crew.....WRONG SCALES.....While the gun garrison is at the TGM standard 1:30 scale the gun BELIVE IT OR NOT is on a most likely 1:35 scale...too small! It seems TGM got a master mold for the gun at 1:35 scale....You can easily see that by a close look and you notice the height of the wheels and they are about the chest height on the standing gunner! Just look at a period picture or sets from other manufacturers and you will automatically see that....It is a pitty......As an artillery fan, I was really looking for its release and got a furstration impact when I actually saw pictures of the set....
Other than that, I did question myself the non standard approach chosen by TGM on the non regulation layout of the gun garrison. Having said that, the gunner and layer would be seated by the gun at the defined seats ( included in the gun as we see by the set pictures)! TGM opted to assume that the officer instructed the garrison to fire from open sights and on a straight tragectory....meaning that the garriosn - short of at least one gunner ( the layer ) must be either on the verge of being overrun or the target is in the open and easily visible for firing on the desperate choice of !!! " guess firing" as no one is using the gun sighting although it is clearly there..... Using only one gunner " standing " maning the gun breach...which is ok as it could be done on a desparate situation, it would be great if they did go the extra mile and added the two seated gunners....Guess they did not do that for the obvious reason that being the gun smaller in scale to the soldiers, he could not figure out how to seat the gunners....
Well, bottom line I will not add this set to my collection due to the crucial and important miss...WRONG SCALE! Would not expect that from TGM....Big blunder!
Wrong - its not 1/35 scale, its 1/30 scale or very close to it. Admittedly the wheels are a little small by approximately 2mm due to mould shrinkage but then its not the end of the world.Just a wee caveat on the New FFL Artillery piece with crew.....WRONG SCALES.....While the gun garrison is at the TGM standard 1:30 scale the gun BELIVE IT OR NOT is on a most likely 1:35 scale...too small! It seems TGM got a master mold for the gun at 1:35 scale....You can easily see that by a close look and you notice the height of the wheels and they are about the chest height on the standing gunner! Just look at a period picture or sets from other manufacturers and you will automatically see that....It is a pitty......As an artillery fan, I was really looking for its release and got a furstration impact when I actually saw pictures of the set....
Other than that, I did question myself the non standard approach chosen by TGM on the non regulation layout of the gun garrison. Having said that, the gunner and layer would be seated by the gun at the defined seats ( included in the gun as we see by the set pictures)! TGM opted to assume that the officer instructed the garrison to fire from open sights and on a straight tragectory....meaning that the garriosn - short of at least one gunner ( the layer ) must be either on the verge of being overrun or the target is in the open and easily visible for firing on the desperate choice of !!! " guess firing" as no one is using the gun sighting although it is clearly there..... Using only one gunner " standing " maning the gun breach...which is ok as it could be done on a desparate situation, it would be great if they did go the extra mile and added the two seated gunners....Guess they did not do that for the obvious reason that being the gun smaller in scale to the soldiers, he could not figure out how to seat the gunners....
Well, bottom line I will not add this set to my collection due to the crucial and important miss...WRONG SCALE! Would not expect that from TGM....Big blunder!
Hi Cathy, Not sure how much interaction you may have had with artillery pieces on a 1:1 scale, just the comment you made on the wheels and the variance of 2mm when recalculated to a 1:1 ratio and what that really means on actual dimensions shows that more contact with the real 1:1 model would help.. Guess pictures talk by themselves...See what I mean...See pictures of the real stuff, and then pictures from manufacturers such as the ones attached...Guess you can see I take French Foreign Legion and Artillery pretty close to heart and am picky as to scale and historical accuracy.....Wrong - its not 1/35 scale, its 1/30 scale or very close to it. Admittedly the wheels are a little small by approximately 2mm due to mould shrinkage but then its not the end of the world.
Secondly you have not taken into account the soldiers are on a base which has increased their height by 3mm. The 5mm difference would have brought the wheels up to chest height.
The reason we did not do seated gunners was because the gun support struts were in the way, you can see this below in our photo, and the sculptor advised standing or kneeling crew. Originally this was supposed to be a 3 man set but because we decided to add an additional crew member at the last minute, there was no time for complicated add on crew poses.
As you can see from the 1/35 scale painted model kit next to our 1/30 scale model there is a noticeable size difference in width, height and length.
There are also plenty of photos on the internet where the crew are not seated and as this is only a toy solider set AC we are allowed a degree of flexibility with poses.
Last but not least - this is a desperate situation, this cannon is designed to go with our firing infantry who are about to be overrun by our Arab Berbers, once everything from this release is put into context it will become quite obvious.
Provided we make a WW1 version, we wont be doing seated gunners then either.
If you decide not to buy then its entirely up to you, as the set is 95% sold out we are very happy with the overall result.
Regards Cathy
Thanks for the pics AC, regardless you are still wrong when you say its 1/35 scale - its clearly not when you compare our 1/30 model next to the 1/35 scale sample picture I posted. Ref the breech opening handle, not sure anybody else will care but once again thanks for the info, which i will put into file 13.A few more pictures.....Not to mention that you have the opening of the breach leaver on the wrong position, it opens from the opposite side ( see that clearly on the picture on my previous post entitled 75 in USA - Showing the correct position of the gunner opening the breach leaver....) In your model you have the breach leaver closed but the handle is postioned on the wrong side...Opss another homework miss......
Hi! Thanks for the note...Yes! the part as to where to point the barrel, thanks God, you got that right...Yes! at the Tower you will not see any sample of the 1897 75mm quick fire gun...but you will see one at the Armoury Museum! As to the scale...well I can only say that if it is not 1:35, it is something other than the same scale as the garrison......The samples of picutres prove that...As you can see, W Britians, K&C, Superior Models, International Armies ( in NZ ) and even Atlas were able to come up with an artillery piece that was acurately scaled to the garrison...pitty the TGM team missed that opportunity....All the best, on the set release and wish others may not be as scale and historically picky as I am.....Thanks for the pics AC, regardless you are still wrong when you say its 1/35 scale - its clearly not when you compare our 1/30 model next to the 1/35 scale sample picture I posted. Ref the breech opening handle, not sure anybody else will care but once again thanks for the info, which i will put into file 13.
As for interaction with 1:1 pieces I have had plenty, my grandfather worked at the Tower of London for many years and is now in the Chelsea Pensioners Royal Hospital, there are hundreds of artillery pieces in those 2 locations. I spent many a Sunday afternoon once the Tower had closed climbing over all the artillery on display. There are no 1897 75mm French cannons there that I know of, but they all do the same thing - point barrel at the enemy and blast away - or did I get that part wrong?