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Rarest 1/72nd figure sets

Posted by Benno on 19 Feb 2009, 21:15

Peter wrote:I know Benno, but didn't we have a discussion on the forum about 28 mm figures to ;-) ?

Something that does not automatically means this forum is for that scale too.
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Posted by Peter on 19 Feb 2009, 21:41

Okay Benno, I retreat! You're the chef around here.

Greetings Peter
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Posted by ColeF on 20 Feb 2009, 20:02

Chef or chief. :P I bet he's both. :lol:
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Posted by ModernKiwi on 10 Mar 2009, 04:25

On my local on-line auction house (TradeMe), someone is selling a large number of 7 year war sets, but he wants outragous amounts for them. NZ$40 opening bids for the Austrian Artillery sets (or $50 for a "buy them now"). Same for the Dragoons but only $25 for the Austrian infantry.
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Posted by Paul on 10 Mar 2009, 14:54

I recently paid (with post etc) nearly 50€ for Revells Preatorians in the original box, NZ$40 sounds about right. Just goes to show how ìnsane´our hobby can get.
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Posted by Susofrick on 10 Mar 2009, 15:18

I have the Dragoons, but I cut them up for very bad conversions :oops: They weren't rare at the time though.
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Posted by captainzlog on 22 Mar 2009, 20:48

That's outrageous My local store down town here has them for under $10 US :nono:

GrumpyKiwi wrote:On my local on-line auction house (TradeMe), someone is selling a large number of 7 year war sets, but he wants outragous amounts for them. NZ$40 opening bids for the Austrian Artillery sets (or $50 for a "buy them now"). Same for the Dragoons but only $25 for the Austrian infantry.
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Posted by Fred on 22 Mar 2009, 22:56

Perhaps you could purchase the swedish Dragoons from Svezda (GNW period) ??
New product so price will be surely cheaper.

You will have only just to do a few conversions...

Moreover, Revell Dragoons are not bad but Zvesda Dragoons are even better.

Hope it will help you.
Fred

PS : take a look also to the new "swedish napoleonic cavalry" from Hät.
You would have hussars in mirliton.
Revell SYW Hussars boxes are now sold at really prohibitive prices.
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Posted by captainzlog on 23 Mar 2009, 04:43

Could work...... I just painted two boxes of Strelets "Reiters of Charles XII' as Austrian and Prussian Cuirassiers. They don't look too bad :-)

Fred wrote:Perhaps you could purchase the swedish Dragoons from Svezda (GNW period) ??
New product so price will be surely cheaper.

You will have only just to do a few conversions...

Moreover, Revell Dragoons are not bad but Zvesda Dragoons are even better.

Hope it will help you.
Fred

PS : take a look also to the new "swedish napoleonic cavalry" from Hät.
You would have hussars in mirliton.
Revell SYW Hussars boxes are now sold at really prohibitive prices.
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Posted by Fred on 23 Mar 2009, 07:50

captainzlog wrote:Could work...... I just painted two boxes of Strelets "Reiters of Charles XII' as Austrian and Prussian Cuirassiers. They don't look too bad :-)


Very interesting.
Do you have pictures ?

I always wondered how would be the strelets figures, when painted.
Are they difficult to paint ?
They seem to be when we look at them, unpainted... :(
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Posted by Fenton on 23 Mar 2009, 09:14

I think the strelets figs paint up nicely, I just dont think that they clean up that well always seems to be quite a few ragged edges after cleaning even if I use a fresh scalpel or hot needle
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Posted by Maurice on 23 Mar 2009, 09:19

You can see what they look like when painted at the Strelets website ( <-- yes, that is a link ;-) ), they have a gallery of painted figures there.

Anyway, the 7YW Austrian Dragoons are still available here and there. Martin for example still has a set, for only € 10,00 (it says 3 sets on his website, but I know for a fact that he has only 1 left, as I bought the other 2 8) ):

http://www.miniatuurwereld.com/web-shop/revell-uitlopend-ned.htm



Fenton wrote:I think the strelets figs paint up nicely, I just dont think that they clean up that well always seems to be quite a few ragged edges after cleaning even if I use a fresh scalpel or hot needle


Working on a box of their Normans now, and they have hardly any cleaning up to do, little excess plastic here and there, but that's it, and I like the sculpting a lot better then those Normans by Revell...
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Posted by Fred on 23 Mar 2009, 18:06

Danke sehr, Maurice.

I didn't know this gallery.
The pictures are great but, really, Zvezda Dragoons seem more easy to paint (and more enjoying..).

You are right, Revell Hussars are much more difficult to get than Dragoons.

Fortunately, I have 4 or 5 boxes of them...
In fact, only some few more boxes of artillery are missing I think...

Many thanks again for your message.
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Posted by captainzlog on 25 Mar 2009, 06:52

Pretty easy to paint, I'll get some pictues done in a day or two. Some of the horse furniture gets kind of deformed where it was attached to the sprue though. Strelets horse are never very good at the best of times - I might get some 1806 Prussians to use for remounts next time :thumbup:

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captainzlog wrote:Could work...... I just painted two boxes of Strelets "Reiters of Charles XII' as Austrian and Prussian Cuirassiers. They don't look too bad :-)


Very interesting.
Do you have pictures ?

I always wondered how would be the strelets figures, when painted.
Are they difficult to paint ?
They seem to be when we look at them, unpainted... :(
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Posted by captainzlog on 28 Mar 2009, 21:55

Very interesting.
Do you have pictures ?

I always wondered how would be the strelets figures, when painted.
Are they difficult to paint ?
They seem to be when we look at them, unpainted... :(



Yes, pictures of these and the Prussian are posted on the 'Work in Progress' page here. The white uniforms are difficult to shade, and the camera flash hides most of it anyway :cry:

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Posted by ironcolumn on 29 May 2011, 10:37

Well it´s probably due to my old age :-)

I've got most of old Airfix sets, but also most of the rare and discontinued Spanish manufacturer EKO figures (see in PSR), and the very good medieval figures from a french manufacturer of a french hero film series called .... cannot remember the name (but see also a review in PSR)
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Posted by Peter on 29 May 2011, 11:26

I thought the name of that French hero was "Henry La Fonde" or something like that.

I can't go on PSR at the moment to put a link up :(
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Posted by entrauner on 29 May 2011, 12:50

Thierry La Fronde
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Sho ... aspx?id=41
I got one for sale..... :mrgreen:
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Posted by ironcolumn on 29 May 2011, 13:55

Right!! Thierry La Fronde

What's the price for these figures nowadays?
Just got 10 survivors or so from the box
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Posted by entrauner on 29 May 2011, 14:55

last time I told what I paid for it,everybody was quite shocked.
but I only saw it once and unfortunately my set is not identical with the one on PSR
(milky color and 2 figurines are different)
if you're interested,please write me PM

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