Flags and football

[Maraviglia]

Anyone else want to see some chaps waving flags? Ideal for leading tanks etc.

And while I'm here as we begin the headlong charge into Xmas I can't help but feel a few models playing football (say, 10 of each British and German) would be good for Christmas truce dioramas or just modelling sections at rest.

[O Dinas Powys]

And while I'm here as we begin the headlong charge into Xmas I can't help but feel a few models playing football (say, 10 of each British and German) would be good for Christmas truce dioramas or just modelling sections at rest.

I think you'd probably want the whole 11 for each team, plus referee, linesmen, trainer with bucket (and magic sponge) and maybe managers to fill the mould... 

Oh, and obviously the proverbial man with dog for a viable non-league diorama 

[Orcs]

Thats equivalent to a full range of figures, probably £800-1000 in masters alone.  Then you have master moulds, production molds .
Pendraken would have to sell 150 packs  just to break even. 

[Raider4]

I think you'd probably want the whole 11 for each team, plus referee, linesmen, trainer with bucket (and magic sponge) and maybe managers to fill the mould... 

Oh, and obviously the proverbial man with dog for a viable non-league diorama 

Aren't you just re-inventing Subbeteo?

[O Dinas Powys]

Thats equivalent to a full range of figures, probably £800-1000 in masters alone.  Then you have master moulds, production molds .
Pendraken would have to sell 150 packs  just to break even. 

Well, for mine, given that I don't actually like soccerball I'd suggest a dual-code rugby range: so 15 players a team, scrums for both league and union, linesmen and a ref. 

For this one we could probably forgo the man and a dog to save on costs... 

[O Dinas Powys]

Aren't you just re-inventing Subbeteo?

You'd need to do the bases... 

Cast-on or optional extras!? 

(Plus goalies on long rods    )

[O Dinas Powys]

Thats equivalent to a full range of figures, probably £800-1000 in masters alone.  Then you have master moulds, production molds .
Pendraken would have to sell 150 packs  just to break even. 

Shall Leon put you down as a maybe then? 

[steve_holmes_11]

Aren't you just re-inventing Subbeteo?

There's also Tipp Kick".


Tipp Kick website

[Last Hussar]

Thats equivalent to a full range of figures, probably £800-1000 in masters alone.  Then you have master moulds, production molds .
Pendraken would have to sell 150 packs  just to break even. 

My brother doesn't wargame, but I can see him buying this many - Crewe Alexander in all the kits for the last 100 years.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

My brother doesn't wargame, but I can see him buying this many - Crewe Alexander in all the kits for the last 100 years.

The shorts would change over that period

[Leon]

Anyone else want to see some chaps waving flags? Ideal for leading tanks etc.

What kind of flag are you thinking?  There's a couple of standard bearers (flag pole only) in the Soviet range, along with tank commander torsos waving flags: https://www.pendraken.co.uk/10mm-world-war-ii-soviet-infantry 

And if you go into the SCW ranges, either Repub or Nat, and filter by 'Command', there's a load of standard bearers in various headgear: https://www.pendraken.co.uk/10mm-inter-war-spanish-civil-war  There's also an officer pose in there that could be converted quite easily to have a small handflag in the open hand.

[Maraviglia]

What kind of flag are you thinking? 

I was thinking of something like the soviet tank commander actually only on a walking officer with a pair of hand flags much like you'd see in semaphore. I believe that was how tanks were ordered/led for much of the first World War.

I'm half tempted to try and make one from the waving pilot pose but I'm not sure he'd look quite right without a fair few changes and my sculpting skill is... lacking.

[fsn]

  
This sort of thing?

[Maraviglia]

This sort of thing?

Possibly a shade less anime but basically yes!
I've had a half formed idea of doing Cambrai for ages and I remember seeing pictures at the tank museum showing how the tanks were led by officers using flag signals.