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Posted by PhilC on 14 Jan 2022, 10:51

Wonderful! One of the best 1/72 manufacturers is back on the market, hourah :)
The figures look perfect as usual (hope the spears remain straight ;-)), and the oversized generals will be perfect heroes for Fantasy games.
By the way, some sets with oriental ghosts, demons, onis... would be great too (I know, we never stop).
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Posted by KenzoSato on 14 Jan 2022, 15:05

I await the news of other boxes, but the name is no longer Caesar?
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Posted by Bluefalchion on 14 Jan 2022, 15:17

It said Caesar on the FB post. Miniknight is the same thing, though. Same company.
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Posted by Brok_Santatusca on 14 Jan 2022, 16:52

I really like those figures. However, i dislike the concept of "bigger generals"
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Posted by Bluefalchion on 14 Jan 2022, 20:44

I despise the concept of bigger generals. But I suppose I can throw them out or sell them or let my boys paint 'em with their watercolor paints.
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Posted by Simon on 17 Jan 2022, 05:35

denitz wrote:
So, probably, 4 generals are indeed oversized and rest figures not small, but actual 1/72


"Heroic 1/72" perhaps? In scale they must be 2.1 or 2.2 metres tall.
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Posted by Misteredd on 17 Jan 2022, 09:18

I will use those big generals as sculptures for memorials or temples.
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Posted by Bluefalchion on 18 Jan 2022, 05:22

Misteredd wrote:I will use those big generals as sculptures for memorials or temples.


That is a very good idea. Better than my plan to chuck the oversized generals in the bin.
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Posted by Bessiere on 18 Jan 2022, 16:53

Funny but for gaming I adopted using Chin 1/32 figures for my corp leaders and Marshals. The rest of the army is 1/72 so of course they are very prominent and easy to see. Plus you can paint them up a bit more extravagantly than if they were the "correct" size. It's my game so I get to decide what is correct.
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Posted by Bluefalchion on 18 Jan 2022, 19:09

Bessiere wrote:Funny but for gaming I adopted using Chin 1/32 figures for my corp leaders and Marshals. The rest of the army is 1/72 so of course they are very prominent and easy to see. Plus you can paint them up a bit more extravagantly than if they were the "correct" size. It's my game so I get to decide what is correct.


No, I do!!!! Check with me first. :)
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Posted by cooey2ph on 21 Jan 2022, 03:50

i believe that CM is a hong kong company and their foray into vehicles and multipart figures bombed and kinda electrocuted their resources, hence the hiatus.
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Posted by Redmao on 21 Jan 2022, 11:58

I'm so glad that they're back in action. Caesar's SAS box is what got me into 1/72 minis.
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Posted by Bluefalchion on 21 Jan 2022, 17:36

cooey2ph wrote:i believe that CM is a hong kong company and their foray into vehicles and multipart figures bombed and kinda electrocuted their resources, hence the hiatus.


Those multi part figures were a great source of spare parts and a ton of fun to assemble, but the finished products were so bulky that they looked like roided up body builders from the 1980s.
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Posted by MABO on 21 Jan 2022, 18:37

I can imagine. That was the reason, why I didn't bought them.
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Posted by steve_pickstock on 23 Jan 2022, 17:52

Just going through my unsorted figures, I keep finding bags of Caesar figures. Mainly bronze age stuff, but also some of their modern sets, their excellent WW2 British infantry and of course their fantasy stuff.
I have a box of their storm troopers/clone troopers which are a pig to put together nicely but I am going to give it another try, and see if I can get something decent out of them.
I like Caesar and hope they come back strong.
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Posted by Howlin on 26 Jan 2022, 23:07

for those concerned with the giant stature of some figs... I get it but consider this...

Perhaps they are just rare mighty warriors of high status (and stature)

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Posted by Flambeau on 27 Jan 2022, 00:33

:-) Great! I guess most people - especially those fascinated by uniforms - tend to think that some sort of beauty lies in uniformity, thus we like our figures to be of the same size, something rarely seen in nature or a casual stroll down the street. Same reason why we prefer buying straight cucumbers in the supermarket and avoid the bent ones ... :-) Stupid actually, but there it is. The human brain is a strange thing ...
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Posted by Howlin on 03 Mar 2022, 07:57

hey found this set for sale right now on ebay for those interested!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/384714863491?h ... Sw5qFh~G2w
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Posted by MABO on 03 Mar 2022, 08:11

Thanks for posting. Things seems to be going.
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Posted by CliosPaintingBench on 19 May 2022, 14:10

Just a head's up the Plastic Soldier Review article on the 3 Kingdoms set is finally out!

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http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/review.aspx?id=2912
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