Quote  I'd have thought our Russo-Japanese range would be one of the most comprehensive on the market now?  There's a couple of additions planned but only limbers and an extra artillery piece I think.

You're probably correct.

I assume it's a minority interest range (might not be a great commercial prospect).

Historically interesting, mostly for the early warning of what industrialised warfare would become.
Best known for the Naval campaigns.

I'm guessing that the only way to stop it eavesdropping would be to tape over the microphone/speaker.

Thanks, Forbes.😀
Did we end up with a discussion regarding using dry rice to try and 'draw out' the moisture ?

Your grandad/dad was on drugs;

Meth use in WW2

The reason I won't have anything like it near me. It is known that the ads you get can be influenced by what Alexa, etc, hears.

QuoteI suppose It depends how big your pendraken orders are. Also can you Morph some of your armies into others bu additions of certain units or by changing standards?

Thank you. I did contemplate that - there are a lot of white uniformed armies in the Napoleonic period.

But, (and apparently it's now OK to start sentences with a conjunction) I have decided to reconstruct the next project (Joseph's Spanish) from a "big" army to a "small" army. This saves 500 figures or so, which can go for the basis for the next project - probably the Italians. This brings the Napoleonic purchase plan (Saxons, Italians, Neapolitans, Badeners (?), Westphalians and Dutch-Belgians) to about 14-15 months. 

This seems to be about right. "Big" nations (UK, France, Russia, Austria, Prussia, Spain) have "big" armies* of 1000 figures

"Small" nations have 500 figure armies - Joseph's Spanish, Brunswick 1815, Hanover 1815 and the projects.

Peninsula 1810 has a 1000 figure Anglo-Portuguese and a 1000 figure Franco-Allied army.

This does give me the option of expanding the forces that interest me after I have the basics. **


*So do Sweden, Denmark, Ottoman Empire, Bavaria, Wurttemberg and Dutch of Warsaw, but let's not talk about that. 
**Granted, that is all of them.

Will has posted about this before - it's one of the lenses on his phone that has got moisture somewhere inside it. 

By the reference to 0.5 I assume he means the wide angle lens which is clear of moisture. But for some reason doesn't focus on the small stuff as well. 

 

Hmmmmm..I'm rather baffled, Will.

The 'fogged' pics look like the lens has been 'huffed' on.

When I send you and Leon pics, I can see when I haven't got them as sharp as I really want. but I've never noticed a 'fogging' effect.
I could get that effect if I sprayed a fine mist of lens cleaner onto the lens.....or more accurately the UV filter screwed onto the front of the lens, to protect the lens itself.

Yep !!....I'm baffled, especially as not every single shot is 'foggy'.

Cheers - Phil.

Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 17 October 2025, 10:28:08 AMRather later: Russo Japanese ranges are rather light on choices.

   I'd have thought our Russo-Japanese range would be one of the most comprehensive on the market now?  There's a couple of additions planned but only limbers and an extra artillery piece I think.

Quote from: Techno 3 on 17 October 2025, 01:29:55 PMHi, Will.

I'm probably being a bit thick, (No change there, then )....But are the 'clear' photo's taken with the same camera/phone. ?
If they are, that's rather strange.

0.5 lens, if you look, things are not fogged, but are out of focus!