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All.....sorry its not a great camera but ull get an idea of the size.....

ELEFANT!!!!




phylo

gee, that Elephant is even smaller than my minature ones. Who made that, and is it yours?

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

phylo

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

phylo

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

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.

sounds cool! Does this company have a website? Thinking about a Panzer Division now!

nice link Tom, oh, my, all the German soldier 12 inch figures.....

Tom, theres a guy who builds them and can then MOTORIZE them. Have seen a clip of them running - incredibly realistic, advertises in the classic military vehicles press in the UK,.....almost frighteningly realistic lol

phylo

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!

phylo

I like the little stuff but i LOVE the big stuff, Know just need to save about 200,000 Australian just to go and buy some 45 King tigers 1/6th scale models, All motorised and even having smoke come outthe exhaust.
Any idea on how many half tracks and trucks were assigned to a Tiger Battalion

I believe the US had a Tiger at Aberdeen Proving Ground,i heard they returned it to Germany, anyone know for sure?

I know they did have one at the Aberdeen Proving Ground but i dont know about it being sent back to Germany, Maybe for a restoration or Germany bought it back or just maybe the Yanks gave it to them as a sign of good faith.

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.

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......

phylo