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Question about Verlinden 120mm figures

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Posted by rosscowalker on Tuesday, October 3, 2006 7:51 PM
the verlinden 120 mm figures  are about 1/16th  scale the 120mm also refers to that not the over all height of the figures
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:49 PM

plymonkey,

If you like the Cornwell "Sharpe's" stuff, there's another British writer named Simon Scarrow who's going to be writing a trilogy covering the simultaneous careers of Napoleon and Wellington from young men to the generals that faced off at Waterloo. He's also written a series of books about a couple guys in the Roman army during the reign of Claudius - which also has inspired me to pick up some Roman figures to paint. The "Eagle" books are every bit as engaging as the "Sharpe's" books and give interesting insights into the daily life of Roman soldiers. Also, like Cornwell, he almost always has a historical note at the end of the books to give a little more insight into the events of the book and the real battles that took place.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 7:26 PM
As I progressed through that series, the Cornwell's telling of the battles became my favorite part. Some of the books were really lazy in terms of plot, but the telling of the strategies, and events surrounding the battles the stories evovled around were always excellent. My personal favorites were Sharpe's  Battle and Sharpe's Triumph, which gave a spectacular and particularly vivid portrayal of Wellesley's sieges of Ahmednuggur and Assaye. It told of Sir Collin Campell's heroic efforts as a young lieutenant scaling the walls of Ahmednuggur, which I found interesting, since Campell would be a commanding general during the Crimean War, taking part in the battle of Balaclava. The 93rd Highlanders were under his command when they stood off the Russian cavalry in the famous 'Thin Red Line' action, which was the bright spot for the allies in that battle (with the Charge of the Light Brigade being the dark spot and the event that has historically defined the battle itself). Kind of neat to get some personal details about the man in his youth, and how he made his bones as an officer. He got knocked off the escalade ladder three times, IIRC, and seriously wounded in the process, but kept coming. I think he was commanding the Forlorn Hope, in fact.

 Cornwell was always good with that, giving us a glimpse of future war heroes of the 19th century as they might have been seen in thier youth, or before they became national heros. Then he drops Sharpe right in there, shoulder to shoulder with them, which drives the plot, of course.

 I enjoyed Waterloo quite a bit too.

 I see there's a new book I've not seen before called Sharpe's Fury, about the Battle of Barrosa in 1811. Must have just come out recently.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 11, 2006 11:19 PM
I was able to get my copy of "Sharpe's Trafalgar" off of Amazon.com - the sea battle scenes in O'Brian's books are great Cornwell's telling of the Battle of Trafalgar is a truly intense white-knuckle read and it goes on for literally almost the last 1/4 to 1/3 of the book! You NEED to read that book! Oh yeah, and the Aubrey-Maturin books pick up and get harder to put down the further you go into the series.
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Posted by ajlafleche on Monday, September 11, 2006 10:08 PM
The best resource for current figures is http://www.redlancers.com They have a very good search feature and carry just about every in production figure kit.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 11, 2006 8:14 PM
Pegasso has some really nice 90mm Napoleonics. Le Cemier, I believe, has some beautiful 1/10th scale Napoleonic figures as well. Check out Michael Roberts LTD. too. They have a few in 120mm. There are a number of others as well, but Verlinden kind of has the 120mm market cornered.

 My 120mm French 3rd Hussar was inspired by Sharpe's Battle, which centered around the battle of Fuentes D'Onoro, and my 1/9th scale 95th Rifles corporal was inspired by Sharpe's Enemy, which centered around the 1812 siege of Badajoz. I read em all. The only one I haven't read was Sharpe's Trafalgar, because I couldn't find a copy when I was into the series. I've been stuck in th efirst 3rd of Master and Commander for about six months now. I like it fine, but I'm just not in a reading headspace these days.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 11, 2006 7:23 PM
Thanks for the clarification. I was pretty sure I was on the right track. Years ago I had painted some nice 54mm figures but I got out of models and figures. I'm now building a 1/96 USS Constitution which was mostly as a result of reading the "Master and Commander" books by Patrick O'Brian. Of course I also read the "Sharpe's" adventures by Bernard Cornwell, about a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. The "Sharpe's" books are what got me thinking about the Verlinden figures. Are there any other companies manufacturing Napoleonic Wars figures in 120mm or 200mm?
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Posted by ajlafleche on Monday, September 11, 2006 8:39 AM
The 120mm refers to the height of the human figure standing upright. Now, some sculptors take the measeurement at the eyes while others at the top of the head and scale everything accordingly. In the case of the second, everything would be a bit larger tahn inthe first case, but in either case, a mounted figure, as Avus just said, would be significantly taller than 120mm from hoves to the top of hat.

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Posted by Avus on Monday, September 11, 2006 2:19 AM

I don't know why but in the "figure-world" you refer to scale in terms of height of the figure in millimeters and not of scale reduction: you have 15mm, 25mm, 54mm, 75mm, 90mm, 120mm and 200mm figures.
So 120mm refers to the figure and is approx. 1/16 scale. Thus a figure on a horse would be higher than 120mm.

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Question about Verlinden 120mm figures
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 10, 2006 10:40 PM

Hello,

With the 120mm Verlinden resin figures, is the measurement referin to the height of the figure? Specifically I'm wondering about the Napoleonic Wars figures that feature horses. In the case of these figures does the 120mm measurement refer to the figure of the person, meaning a figure featuring a horse is actually taller than 120mm?

Thanks

 

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