A Canadians pet peeve

VanceCrozier

Sprue-ce Goose

VanceCrozier

stikpusher

Manstein's revenge

Modeling companies tend to stick with soldiers from countries with long traditions of waging aggressive warfare, Canada just doesn't have that "fear" factor...

Not to mention that between the end of the Korean War in mid 1953 and the current fight in Afghanistan starting in late 2001, Canada has not had ground troops in combat. Most of the other NATO nations serving in Afghanistan are in the same boat. No combat for nearly 50 years and no 1/35 figures of their modern soldiers who are in combat again.

No "combat" deployments, but certainly a lot of blue-helmeted peacekeeping missions.

........ those "blue-helmeted peacekeeping missions" can be just as dangerous.

Absolutely.  Darfur, Sudan, Eritrea, East Timor, Congo, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, East Timor, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Somalia etc etc etc.

Bosnia & Rwanda were especially nasty spots to be deployed to.

Yes I know... been there-done that... I did not mean the remark to be disparaging... More high risk stuff happens there than most will ever know. And people do die on both sides. Accidentally, intentionally, and self inflicted. As Heinlein wrote in Starship Troopers, "it doesnt matter if you get killed in a little incident or a big war, you're just as dead", or something along those lines.... But unless its a very slow news day, you never hear about that stuff anymore. Not with real shooting wars going on around the world.

Sprue-ce Goose

VanceCrozier

stikpusher

Manstein's revenge

Modeling companies tend to stick with soldiers from countries with long traditions of waging aggressive warfare, Canada just doesn't have that "fear" factor...

Not to mention that between the end of the Korean War in mid 1953 and the current fight in Afghanistan starting in late 2001, Canada has not had ground troops in combat. Most of the other NATO nations serving in Afghanistan are in the same boat. No combat for nearly 50 years and no 1/35 figures of their modern soldiers who are in combat again.

No "combat" deployments, but certainly a lot of blue-helmeted peacekeeping missions.

........ those "blue-helmeted peacekeeping missions" can be just as dangerous.

Absolutely.  Darfur, Sudan, Eritrea, East Timor, Congo, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, East Timor, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Somalia etc etc etc.

Bosnia & Rwanda were especially nasty spots to be deployed to.

VanceCrozier

stikpusher

Manstein's revenge

Modeling companies tend to stick with soldiers from countries with long traditions of waging aggressive warfare, Canada just doesn't have that "fear" factor...

Not to mention that between the end of the Korean War in mid 1953 and the current fight in Afghanistan starting in late 2001, Canada has not had ground troops in combat. Most of the other NATO nations serving in Afghanistan are in the same boat. No combat for nearly 50 years and no 1/35 figures of their modern soldiers who are in combat again.

No "combat" deployments, but certainly a lot of blue-helmeted peacekeeping missions.

stikpusher

Manstein's revenge

Modeling companies tend to stick with soldiers from countries with long traditions of waging aggressive warfare, Canada just doesn't have that "fear" factor...

Not to mention that between the end of the Korean War in mid 1953 and the current fight in Afghanistan starting in late 2001, Canada has not had ground troops in combat. Most of the other NATO nations serving in Afghanistan are in the same boat. No combat for nearly 50 years and no 1/35 figures of their modern soldiers who are in combat again.

No "combat" deployments, but certainly a lot of blue-helmeted peacekeeping missions.

Manstein's revenge

Modeling companies tend to stick with soldiers from countries with long traditions of waging aggressive warfare, Canada just doesn't have that "fear" factor...

Not to mention that between the end of the Korean War in mid 1953 and the current fight in Afghanistan starting in late 2001, Canada has not had ground troops in combat. Most of the other NATO nations serving in Afghanistan are in the same boat. No combat for nearly 50 years and no 1/35 figures of their modern soldiers who are in combat again.

Your best bet would to appeal to Canadian aftermarket figure manufacturers and see if they will make the hometown boys.

The lack of figures may be due to few news images of Canadian soldiers.

The public has been exposed to video and images of WWII German military since the 1960s and kit issues have served to reinforce a demand for same scale figures.

Modern non-US military images are fleeting and I have rarely seen such footage outside of the BBC broadcasts.

I suspect the same problem would apply to other US allies, such as Polish military serving overseas.

Modeling companies tend to stick with soldiers from countries with long traditions of waging aggressive warfare, Canada just doesn't have that "fear" factor...

I agree with you john lyle there are not nearly enough modern Canadian figures

You shoulda been around when the only figures with K-pots were the Tamiya "Modern US Infantry" sets.. Had to make molds to get more K-pots and pro-mask carriers if you wanted to model anything from 1980 onwards... Had to cast the torso too, if we wanted the PASGT body armor...

To be honest I've noticed a bit of a lack of US figures as well, there seems to be an overdose of ww2 figures compared to the modern ones in all regards.