Troops landing at Quebec (1 Viewer)

[RAMC]

As mentioned on the show thread I would love John to do more amphibious sets. IMO He is a master at this. Wolfe being rowed ashore. Troops being landed before the battle. In other ranges maybe more Whale boats with different crews. Maybe some Indian scouts with the Rangers. Native americans with capitives and french trappers in canoes maybe.

Whats everyone elses take on this, good or bad idea? Most collectors seem to like to make mini dio's to display their collections and boats create a great oppertunity to do this without mast ranks of troops needing shelf space.

 

[Combat]

Like it. There is an illustration in "Empires Collide" of some British light infantry making a landing (I believe) at Louisbourg. Some very distinctive uniforms that we haven't seen yet from JJ.

 

[theBaron]

As mentioned on the show thread I would love John to do more amphibious sets. IMO He is a master at this. Wolfe being rowed ashore. Troops being landed before the battle. In other ranges maybe more Whale boats with different crews. Maybe some Indian scouts with the Rangers. Native americans with capitives and french trappers in canoes maybe.

Whats everyone elses take on this, good or bad idea? Most collectors seem to like to make mini dio's to display their collections and boats create a great oppertunity to do this without mast ranks of troops needing shelf space.

Or even a review set of an admiral's barge, or the sovereign's barge on the Thames? Doesn't the Crown still maintain one?

Prost!
Brad

 

[marco55]

I would very much like Jenkins to do the water aspect of the war.I have the 2 canoe sets and almost got rid of them as I didn't have them set out, so I was going to sell them and I opened the boxes and looked at them and said to myself am I nuts because I love them.I am planning on getting the whale boat and they would look good in a diorama going against each other.I had said in an earlier post that I had seen a flat raft type of craft with 2 men with long poles in a 25mm version years ago.I would really like to have a set like that.
Mark

 

[Aussie Monty]

Marco55,

And then there are all the British and French naval crews, officers, marines and sailors.

I spoke to John last year on if he was going to do a landing barge for the Battle of the Plains of Abraham Series. His comment then was the barges were huge 60 men each (there is a picture of one some were in past posting) and the cost and size of the project was to big. But with the whale boat now on its way, we can only live in hope.

 

[theBaron]

A landing barge sounds like a good subject for one of the painters/scratchbuilders to tackle, as a one-off piece or diorama.