All.....sorry its not a great camera but ull get an idea of the size.....
ELEFANT!!!!
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Yep the makers were an old company in the UK called "Heroics and Ros" cos the two sides of the company handled a different market - one side made AFVS the other made smallscale ships.
Made an INCREDIBLY diverse range- a friend of mine had an ENTIRE Romanian armoured division including Turan tanks. Their Warsaw Pact/Nato stuff was superb.
I have Elefants, Tigers, King Tiger with the Porsche turret, PIV with shurtzen, and un-shurtzen'd with long 75mm gun, StuGIII and some Opel Blitz trucks. they also did planes for ground attack, have flight of four gorgeous little ME109s.
They are made in white metal - quite high lead content cos the barrels are still malleable and were straightened. Turrets separate where necessary, the Elefant's gun pillbox is separate from the body
Are thrity years old now
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Made an INCREDIBLY diverse range- a friend of mine had an ENTIRE Romanian armoured division including Turan tanks. Their Warsaw Pact/Nato stuff was superb.
I have Elefants, Tigers, King Tiger with the Porsche turret, PIV with shurtzen, and un-shurtzen'd with long 75mm gun, StuGIII and some Opel Blitz trucks. they also did planes for ground attack, have flight of four gorgeous little ME109s.
They are made in white metal - quite high lead content cos the barrels are still malleable and were straightened. Turrets separate where necessary, the Elefant's gun pillbox is separate from the body
Are thrity years old now
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HvM, wargaming is a hobby that grabs you by the popsicles and never lets got, can still put my hand on my old stuff in the loft even after thirty years. Have you even seen a film called "Callan" with Edward Woodward? A tv series spinoff from the 70s about a British Itelligence assasin who in this case gets into the confidence of his target....by posing as a wargamer! Half the film is based around the two men sparring verbally across the feld of Gettysburg, using one of the most famous wargame armies in the world ever, Peter Gilders' American Civil War armies...which I later had the priviledge of using for four days...
Like being given the keys to James Bonds' Aston Martin DB6 and told to go park it.....LMAO
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Like being given the keys to James Bonds' Aston Martin DB6 and told to go park it.....LMAO
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If you like the big ones, take a look at this site! The guy is a member over on AHF:
http://www.tiger1.co.uk
http://www.tiger1.co.uk
sounds cool! Does this company have a website? Thinking about a Panzer Division now!Made an INCREDIBLY diverse range- a friend of mine had an ENTIRE Romanian armoured division including Turan tanks. Their Warsaw Pact/Nato stuff was superb.
nice link Tom, oh, my, all the German soldier 12 inch figures.....
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HvM, the problem with wargaming is that its very fashion-driven - new rules that people like change wargaming habits. When I was very young it was all 1/72nd or 1/76th, but here in the UK a new edition of WRG (Wargames research group) rules put everybody onto 1/400th so they could fill whole battlefields on a tabletop, for better realism.
Have lost touch with a lot of it, but WRG is out of favour at the minute and the available rules for WWII, actually dating back with many changes to the late and great Peter Gilder again - have encouraged everyone back to 1/76th scale or 1/72nd, together with a whole range of new specialists figures thankfully in plastic from new companies. Just like many DECADES ago, before and after WWII, due to Britain's and Elastolin etc almost all wargaming was 1/35th.
So I dont know if Heroics and Ros still survive, or if they do cud be under another name. Dont even know if there much 1/400th scale stuff at all
good hunting!
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Have lost touch with a lot of it, but WRG is out of favour at the minute and the available rules for WWII, actually dating back with many changes to the late and great Peter Gilder again - have encouraged everyone back to 1/76th scale or 1/72nd, together with a whole range of new specialists figures thankfully in plastic from new companies. Just like many DECADES ago, before and after WWII, due to Britain's and Elastolin etc almost all wargaming was 1/35th.
So I dont know if Heroics and Ros still survive, or if they do cud be under another name. Dont even know if there much 1/400th scale stuff at all
good hunting!
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Hi Phylo,
Heroics & Ros are still going it seems. But aren't those little guys 1/300, like the Commissar mentioned?
Somewhere in my piles of crap (erm, I mean carefully stored hobby items ) I have what I used to think was an accurate German Panzer division from c; 1943 and a Russian tank corps to slog it out with. I fear that should I unearth them now I'd find that the TOE I used was absolutely wrong (despite being the best we could work out at school!).
Have to say that I never really took to this small scale, prefering the visual appeal of the 15/25mm guys (although not their price tags). Currently bulding smaller German and Russian late war forces in 15mm. Got most of the figs, just need the time to paint them.
Heroics & Ros are still going it seems. But aren't those little guys 1/300, like the Commissar mentioned?
Somewhere in my piles of crap (erm, I mean carefully stored hobby items ) I have what I used to think was an accurate German Panzer division from c; 1943 and a Russian tank corps to slog it out with. I fear that should I unearth them now I'd find that the TOE I used was absolutely wrong (despite being the best we could work out at school!).
Have to say that I never really took to this small scale, prefering the visual appeal of the 15/25mm guys (although not their price tags). Currently bulding smaller German and Russian late war forces in 15mm. Got most of the figs, just need the time to paint them.
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Now the pendulum swings the other way and.......
Take a look at
[/url]www.mark-1-tank.co.uk
and stop dribbling and start saving......
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Take a look at
[/url]www.mark-1-tank.co.uk
and stop dribbling and start saving......
phylo