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Thanks for posting. That's rather imposing and impressive. Wonder where it's headed after three months.

Having never served, I can't imagine what it must have been like.
 
jazzeum said:
Thanks for posting. That's rather imposing and impressive. Wonder where it's headed after three months.

Having never served, I can't imagine what it must have been like.
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Nor can I.

The residents of Seaham have since raised the funds to buy the statue, so it will be there permanently. I believe it's going to be mounted on a stone plinth in the current location.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-28493552
 
I love the way it's positioned facing the existing war memorial...so very poignant....
 
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On my trip in UK in June/July I was told of this sculpture, so we went out of our way to visit Seham and see this.

Its a poignant reminder of the futility of war, seeing the despair on the face of this Tommy......

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You will notice that he is slowly rusting, gaining a khaki colour, waiting for it all to end, so he can come home.

Lest we forget.
 
From what I have read, it's also supposed to publicize the effects of PTSD.
 
Obee said:
On my trip in UK in June/July I was told of this sculpture, so we went out of our way to visit Seham and see this.

Its a poignant reminder of the futility of war, seeing the despair on the face of this Tommy......

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You will notice that he is slowly rusting, gaining a khaki colour, waiting for it all to end, so he can come home.

Lest we forget.
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I like the way the grass has been worn around the statue, except in close proximity to it (I know that sounds odd). But it just goes to show how many people have been to see it since its been there. I wish my town was having something installed like that.
 
lancer said:
My army in Horizon Blue is starting to overwhelm my abode. It's numbers keep growing. I have added a couple of Del Prado (not horrible figures, but not up to the standards of the other makers) and some more JJD and TGM Poilu. My figure count is now 26 with another 3 TGM to be gotten and, of course, the new Schneider and 2 Poilu by JJD. Those 5 will drive the total to 31, with all the wonderful new FL Poilu still to hit the market. It's fairly obvious that I am now going to have to divide up the fighting troops from the non-fighting troops. Just not enough room to display all together. -- Al
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Added the outstanding new Schneider tank and GWF-24 to my total along with one of the new FL figures. Very happy with all of them. Now have 3 tanks and 29 figures. Beginning to see Horizon Blue in my dreams. Must find money for another set of the excellent and very versatile JJD tank riders. They can be placed just about anywhere. Really love these tanks and where this whole HB concept seems to be headed. I can see that a first-aid post/ field hospital and mobile kitchen would be very useful additions to my HB army.:wink2:^&cool -- Al
 
Hi,
Received a Mark V, a Schneider and four Poilu's this week.
Thought I'd upload a few pictures.
It is great to have the Schneider next to the St Chamond. Both have eye catching camouflage schemes!


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Agree the camo's are striking, really sets off the French soldiers. This a really nice range, for me mostly prefer the behind the front pose of figures like John has been doing. A French artillery set would be great too.^&cool, Robin.
 
villagehorse said:
Agree the camo's are striking, really sets off the French soldiers. This a really nice range, for me mostly prefer the behind the front pose of figures like John has been doing. A French artillery set would be great too.^&cool, Robin.
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I'm with you all the way on the artillery. I can't believe that no one has done the iconic French 75mm yet. It's got to be coming but who will do it first and when? -- Al
 
lancer said:
I'm with you all the way on the artillery. I can't believe that no one has done the iconic French 75mm yet. It's got to be coming but who will do it first and when? -- Al
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Hi Lancer and Al,

75mms, can be bought on ebay usually you can find the Britians when they were not First Gear, but still Britains under the Premier series, for both the US Marines and the French Army.....You can also order them from a nice company down in New Zealand - International Soldiers if I am not mistaken....selecting from US Marines or as French artillery - both regular French Artillery from the begining of the war - deep blue uniforms, of later horizon blue with the garrison wearing gas masks or not....or as a last option Atlas from Frnace....Here are some pics...
 

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Good to know their are choices, I am a big fan of mix & match, although in the case of this French series, I plan as much as possible to stay with JJD. Given time I feel John will cover all the iconic pieces and he does such a good job. Robin.
 
Artillery_crazy said:
Hi Lancer and Al,

75mms, can be bought on ebay usually you can find the Britians when they were not First Gear, but still Britains under the Premier series, for both the US Marines and the French Army.....You can also order them from a nice company down in New Zealand - International Soldiers if I am not mistaken....selecting from US Marines or as French artillery - both regular French Artillery from the begining of the war - deep blue uniforms, of later horizon blue with the garrison wearing gas masks or not....or as a last option Atlas from Frnace....Here are some pics...
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I actually have the Britains Premier 75 with the Horizon Blue artillery crew and the SoW 75 from New Zealand with the early war dark blue French uniforms but they are both gloss and won't mix in size or appearence with my current French from KC, JJD, FL, or TGM. I need a 1/30 scale gun in matte finish.:wink2: That said, I really like my Premier and SoW 75's. Both are really well done. -- Al
 
Hi Al and Lancer...

Fully agree with you!

Cheers

Luiz

lancer said:
I actually have the Britains Premier 75 with the Horizon Blue artillery crew and the SoW 75 from New Zealand with the early war dark blue French uniforms but they are both gloss and won't mix in size or appearence with my current French from KC, JJD, FL, or TGM. I need a 1/30 scale gun in matte finish.:wink2: That said, I really like my Premier and SoW 75's. Both are really well done. -- Al
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Hi.
A few pictures, taken mainly to show the covers of some books by the war poets published by Faber and Faber which I just purchased on Amazon. There are six in all. The missing three are by Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen. The covers are superb. Hope to complete the set in due course. I think they make a great backdrop.

Hope you like them!

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To you who’d read my songs of War
And only hear of blood and fame,
I’ll say (you’ve heard it said before)
”War’s Hell!” and if you doubt the same,
Today I found in Mametz Wood
A certain cure for lust of blood:

Where, propped against a shattered trunk,
In a great mess of things unclean,
Sat a dead Boche; he scowled and stunk
With clothes and face a sodden green,
Big-bellied, spectacled, crop-haired,
Dribbling black blood from nose and beard

"A Dead Boche" by Robert Graves


And have we done with War at last?
Well, we've been lucky devils both,
And there's no need of pledge or oath
To bind our lovely friendship fast,
By firmer stuff
Close bound enough.

By wire and wood and stake we're bound,
By Fricourt and by Festubert,
By whipping rain, by the sun's glare,
By all the misery and loud sound,
By a Spring day,
By Picard clay.

Show me the two so closely bound
As we, by the red bond of blood,
By friendship, blossoming from mud,
By Death: we faced him, and we found
Beauty in Death,
In dead men breath.

"Two Fusiliers" by Robert Graves


Pete
 
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I’ve watched the Seasons passing slow, so slow,
In the fields between La Bassée and Bethune;
Primroses and the first warm day of Spring,
Red poppy floods of June,
August, and yellowing Autumn, so
To Winter nights knee-deep in mud or snow,
And you’ve been everything.

Dear, you’ve been everything that I most lack
In these soul-deadening trenches—pictures, books,
Music, the quiet of an English wood,
Beautiful comrade-looks,
The narrow, bouldered mountain-track,
The broad, full-bosomed ocean, green and black,
And Peace, and all that’s good.

"1915" by Robert Graves
 
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