Non fighting poses (1 Viewer)

[thebritfarmer]

Well after a post in the First Legion thread, I thought it would be neat to see if there is any interest generally for non fighting/marching poses. I know myself personlly would enjoy some scenes of camp life etc. and I know of a few others on the forum. So what do you think?

 

[Currahee Chris]

Well after a post in the First Legion thread, I thought it would be neat to see if there is any interest generally for non fighting/marching poses.

Little confused bud- are you saying non-fighting/ non- marching or are you including marching in there? Marching in my book could be drill-n-ceremony or troops on patrol.

Either way,. I took no for the time being as I feel my favorite companies have sort of been doing non fighting poses for awhile now- must be some sort of Armistice truce being kicked around- time for them to get back into the fight.

 

[Aleš]

i am interested in non fighting figures.I think they always need to make some non fightis figure no matter who is the manufacturer.If they are afraid that this figure will not sale much than at least make them limited edition!!
I like all kind of limited edition(hm,maybe i have a problem haha)

 

[thebritfarmer]

Little confused bud- are you saying non-fighting/ non- marching or are you including marching in there? Marching in my book could be drill-n-ceremony or troops on patrol.

Either way,. I took no for the time being as I feel my favorite companies have sort of been doing non fighting poses for awhile now- must be some sort of Armistice truce being kicked around- time for them to get back into the fight.

Hi Chris

I meant no fighting or marching figures. Most manufacturers seem to make plenty of these but we need more of the background action. Sitting round a campfire, sleeping, playing cards, cooking, shoeing a horse. having a coffee/pop, smoking, walking, leaning on a fence. It's all good

 

[kogu]

A definete "YES" from me here,
I love to display non-fighting scenes, camp-scenes and that's what I am going for to collect.
Hopefully within a few more weeks I will be able to add a new album to my profile which will be called "camp scenes".
Konrad

 

[Deitz]

I would like to see camp life scenes, there are some figures that could be done. Hopefully, a some munafacturers will take a chance such as, Little Legion and WBritains. AZW of course.

 

[jac28]

I would have to split my vote... my two favorite periods are American War of Independence and Medieval (in general)...

For Rev War - I mostly like fighting poses, artillery crews, etc.

For Medieval, while I like fighting poses - some guys standing guard, townsfolk, and whatnot are quite useful - my castle is quite large and all the figures in it can't be fighting....Some peasants and towns people are always useful, too.

Jim

 

[wayne556517]

A huge YES great idea mate.

 

[trooper]

Suggest you check ATS website. He has many vignettes of figures in relaxed situations both in his Napoleonic range and the Lancer range he produces. His Duchess of Richmond's Ball series is well worth a look as is the Retreat to Corunna sets. Asset have a large series depicting the British Home Front during WW2 showing many aspects of life at that time.

 

[acw cavalry]

Hi Konrad,

Given your interest in camp scenes and the fact that you should be able to upload an album of such figures shortly, I don't suppose that you are the colector that has commissioned a number of such sets from Nik at ATS are you? If you are I can vouch for the fact that they are very interesting and will certainly add a different dimension to any napoleonic collection of figures.

Regards
Martin aka acw cavalry

 

[GICOP]

I love the Trophy sets I already own, I would be very interested in seeing what LL could come up with

Cheers

Martyn

 

[the 999th]

I voted no, as although I do have non-fighting poses in my collections, I always collect fighting poses first and think a manufacturer should only start producing non-fighting poses once he has done all the basic fighting poses for his range first.

My order of priority is always:

Firing poses (standing,kneeling, prone - the more variation of these the better)
Loading poses
Shot and wounded
advancing/charging poses
Hand to Hand combat
Artillery - loading or firing
Cavalry - charging
Cavalry preparing for charge
Marching
Wagons on move
Officer/NCO/Flag bearer
Drummer/Bugler
personalities
Inf standing at attention
Camp life

and always regular troops before irregulars.

My pet gripe is that the ratio of buglers/drummers/flag bearers/officiers/artillery and personalities to basic troops is usually far too high in most ranges. I need one Centurion for every one hundred men not one for every five. I have 3 Reverend Smiths handing out ammunition, I don't need a fourth. Nor do I want one guidon bearer, one bugler, one officer and one Napoleon for every trooper.

 

[Currahee Chris]

Great poll BF- interesting results so far has 16 for and 5 against- I felt it would be a much tighter race- didn't believe it would be so one sided towards non-action poses.

These types of polls are always interesting to me. Must be the beancounter in me.

 

[Aleš]

I voted no, as although I do have non-fighting poses in my collections, I always collect fighting poses first and think a manufacturer should only start producing non-fighting poses once he has done all the basic fighting poses for his range first.

My order of priority is always:

Firing poses (standing,kneeling, prone - the more variation of these the better)
Loading poses
Shot and wounded
advancing/charging poses
Hand to Hand combat
Artillery - loading or firing
Cavalry - charging
Cavalry preparing for charge
Marching
Wagons on move
Officer/NCO/Flag bearer
Drummer/Bugler
personalities
Inf standing at attention
Camp life

and always regular troops before irregulars.

My pet gripe is that the ratio of buglers/drummers/flag bearers/officiers/artillery and personalities to basic troops is usually far too high in most ranges. I need one Centurion for every one hundred men not one for every five. I have 3 Reverend Smiths handing out ammunition, I don't need a fourth. Nor do I want one guidon bearer, one bugler, one officer and one Napoleon for every trooper.

Who force you to buy all that?
Who force you to buy 4 buglers if you already have one?
But it i sbetter that they make 4 so you can choose which one will you buy,no one say you must buy all 4 of them

 

[binder001]

A soldier spends very little of his time in actual combat. Most of it is the dull misery of eating, marching, sleeping, etc.

I do WW2 conversions and have a customer has had me do quite a few WW2 GIs in non-combat poses. It's challenging but kind of fun.

Gary B.

 

[Aleš]

Great poll BF-.

Does not BF-mean boyfriend?

 

[the 999th]

Who force you to buy all that?
Who force you to buy 4 buglers if you already have one?
But it i sbetter that they make 4 so you can choose which one will you buy,no one say you must buy all 4 of them

No one has yet forced me to buy any toy soldiers.

However figures are often sold in sets containing an officer or a drummer or a standard bearer which means if you buy multiple sets you end up with a lot of drummers/officers etc.

I would prefer standard sets to be sold without the officer etc and would prefer manufacturer's to produce more variations on standard fighting poses for your basic infantryman or trooper than to produce drummers and officers.

 

[thebritfarmer]

No one has yet forced me to buy any toy soldiers.

However figures are often sold in sets containing an officer or a drummer or a standard bearer which means if you buy multiple sets you end up with a lot of drummers/officers etc.

I would prefer standard sets to be sold without the officer etc and would prefer manufacturer's to produce more variations on standard fighting poses for your basic infantryman or trooper than to produce drummers and officers.

I getcha !!! Most frustrating

 

[Aleš]

well i am also interested in diorama stuff.Like houses,walls,fence,maybe some animals,water well(aquaduct or how it is say in the english,you know where you can take water from),trees,cactus,....stuff like that so that i can put my figures next too.
I know that there is a lot of this stuff in the market but still i like that they make more of that too,because than figures look more alive than just one figure attacking another figure in the middle of the living room table.

 

[VIRIATO]

It's a yes for me. I believe fighting or marching poses are sometimes not that original. Right now I can remember some John Jenkins camp scenes (Roger's Rangers), Tedtoy's camp scenes, Tommy Atkins/Fusilier WWI medical or transport sets, or some recent Britains medical sets (Nap and Zulu War in matte). Quite lovely and I believe quite valued by collectors, possibly because of being different.
I also find the «cantinieres» or camp followers an interesting concept....

Paulo