Landsknechts

[Maenoferren]

Or that you try and look up womens skirts on escalators 

What....... you mean I shouldnt ... however we have no escalators on Shetland....so I can't..

Anyway back to the point. If troops are irregulars then I do like a bit of variety in the poses. The sudan figures I have been doing of late have enough poses to make a rabble. Camels have fewer poses cavalry 2 poses if you ignore the armoured type. The British have 2 poses which work for me the way I base them. I would have liked to see more combat style poses for the camel corps but that is personal preference.

[OldenBUA]

My preference is for multi pose packs. They have the advantage that you can do more animated bases, which I like. AND you can do single pose bases, because you can always ask that nice mister Leon for 'Just the Grenadier in greatcoat twirling his moustache lefthanded, please', because he's loopy enough to do it, too. But with a single pose in a pack, how are you going to get a bit of variation? Only by mixing packs, and that can be tricky.

[fsn]

Horses are a problem for me. They don't walk in step, and I don't like all horses in the same pose ... but I do want them all standing, walking or trotting. I think pre-1900 it's a discipline thing. Were I to field a 1793 French army, I'd probably mix 1/3 nice, uniform poses to 2/3 scraggy herberts. Imperial Rome I'd like uniformity, Gauls - as many poses as you like.

Airfix US Marines: something - like flamethrower, bazooka, standing firing, kneeling   firing, pistol, dingy and 30 chaps running around without any weapons at all.   Oh and the bloke with his rifle above his head either because
            a) he'd finished wading ashore, but forgot to lower his rifle
            b) he was surrendering
            c) he'd fallen foul of Sarge and was on punishment detail.

By the way, I like wearing your wife's underwear.

[paulr]

As several have said it is very much a question of the type of unit you are trying to represent.

I've just sorted 6 stands of AWI Militia, 16 figures per stand, by mixing three different packs I can get almost all the figures different (only 2 pairs of duplicates per stand) which works for Militia 

I'm equally happy with 2-3 poses for the Continentals 

Horses really benefit from more than 2 poses as they don't march in step.

But as FSN suggests it is about the poses working together, which is the major problem with the good old Airfix packs

[MattW]

To be fair, with things like the landsknechts, all you need to really change the heads for pikemen, and maybe heads and halberd tips for the halberdiers. Crossbows and handguns could do with a couple of different poses firing/loading though.

[fsn]

Ah! There we may disagree. I dislike any firing pose pre 1939 - especially kneeling   firing.

If you take the Napoleonic Wars, musketry fire was opened at say 100 yards. The amount of time spent firing was very small - spent more time reloading! I hate the sight of a column of infantry, each one carefully aiming it the neck (or buttocks    ) of the man in front.  

Fankyouverymuch - FSN

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Maybe that's why everyone was so small in the past FSN, that way they could miss each other...

[fsn]

By the way, welcome Mr W, to the Forum.

All other forums and/or fora are but pale imitations of this one. If this Forum was being Sean Connery playing James Bond, all other forums/fora are at best Timothy Dalton, and the general quality is more Roger Moore. (This being on the internationally accepted Fleming Scale of Connery, Brosnan, Niven, Dalton, Lazenby, Moore, Woodentop.)

Laters - FSN

[fsn]

Maybe that's why everyone was so small in the past FSN, that way they could miss each other...

When I read this I was like , and then I was like  , but then youknow I was  but then I said to myself "don't be so uptight" so I was like  but now I've had a fink about it and I'm like    but then mysong came on and I'm like  . Coooool.   

Now wash your hands - FSN

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

You missed: 

[toxicpixie]

If I got as many landsknect poses as there's emoticons there I'd be delirious

[Hertsblue]

By the way, welcome Mr W, to the Forum.

All other forums and/or fora are but pale imitations of this one. If this Forum was being Sean Connery playing James Bond, all other forums/fora are at best Timothy Dalton, and the general quality is more Roger Moore. (This being on the internationally accepted Fleming Scale of Connery, Brosnan, Niven, Dalton, Lazenby, Moore, Woodentop.)

I thought Lazenby was woodentop.

[toxicpixie]

Work colleague of mine nearly wore her DVD out watching Woodentop come out the sea in his trunks!

[paulr]

Fankyouverymuch – FSN
Laters – FSN
Now wash your hands - FSN

FSN are you trying on some new tag lines now that Techo has reclaimed his "Cheers" 

[fsn]

Maybe ....  

Yours sincerely,
FSN

PS The one I like best so far is "I quite like wearing your wife's underwear".

[paulr]

Maybe ....  

Yours sincerely,
FSN

PS The one I like best so far is "I quite like wearing your wife's underwear".

"Yours sincerely," seems a little formal, the other option mentioned above appears to have gone to the other extreme 

[Ithoriel]

How on earth can Connery be first??? He can't act. He can only do one character and its the same one whether he's a British Spy or a Russian submarine commander!!

To be fair he does do a very convincing portrayal of Sean Connery.

For me it goes Brosnan, Craig, Niven, Moore and then Who?? Never heard of him.

[MattW]

This is a good forum.   

Thanks for the warm welcome, fsn

[FierceKitty]

By the way, welcome Mr W, to the Forum.

All other forums and/or fora are but pale imitations of this one. If this Forum was being Sean Connery playing James Bond, all other forums/fora are at best Timothy Dalton, and the general quality is more Roger Moore. (This being on the internationally accepted Fleming Scale of Connery, Brosnan, Niven, Dalton, Lazenby, Moore, Woodentop.)

Laters - FSN

I think Dalton would have been remembered as a first-place tie with Connery if he'd lasted longer. Not that I'd kick either of them out of bed, mind you.

[fsn]

How on earth can Connery be first???

Connery is from that long line of actors who don't act: Like John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and Al Pacino. He is, however fortunate in that the role he is most associated with, James Bond, fits his screen persona perfectly. Also fits the Fleming description of the character.

Good morning to you - FSN