My compeer Geoff... I'm happy to read that your problem is way to be resolved. Stoic and fair-play under fire, no doubt, you are a true son of Albion. Izan ontsa.
My compeer Geoff... I'm happy to read that your problem is way to be resolved. Stoic and fair-play under fire, no doubt, you are a true son of Albion. Izan ontsa.
Charles, tes mots sont rudes... mais justes (Your words are harsh... but fair). Thank you. First of all, the right to a free and open, loyal expression, is guaranteed here. We are certainly consum...
Well, I understand and accept other points of view, my good Fellows. An explanation for Grumpy Gnome : When I invoke a difference of perception between what seems normal in the Anglo-Saxon world a...
Good fellows... I'm honestly quite pissed off. Or... "Je suis honnêtement assez dépité", disappointed, surprised (bad surprise). You all seem to find normal that we have to pay...
I'm glad to read you, my friends. The People are starting to moan : it's a good sign. The switch to all-digital is bugging me. It will happen without me. Without any regrets. This hobby, without ...
A very interesting focus on the Romanian fighters, whose existence I barely knew... just like the Bulgarians for that matter. I appreciate. I note the wearing of the béret, "à la fra...
Agur, Laguna! Hi, Comrade ! I have almost the same -very- large family : 3 cats, 3 rams, 3 horses, 3 children (thanks to my revered French-Irish wife), but only 2 dogs ! As for the hens and rooste...
Urte berri on ! Happy new year ! With a special thought for you, Geoff and Eileen, who are our "mascots" here : I wish you light, bread, water... and above all, Love ! In good health, if possible....
Eguberri on, Lagunok... guztientzako argi eta opariekin ! Joyeux Noël, les Amis... avec de la lumière et des cadeaux pour tout le monde ! Merry Christmas, my Friends... with light and...
Hi, Comrade and Friend Geoff : "Trankil ! Lasai !" (basque : drop it, forget it). No one should feel obligated to go "digital"... and this focus is starting to get on my nerves. I will not go down...
This tank is well thought out, refined and very effective. Franchement, je suis vraiment admiratif... Your work is of exceptional quality, and it's also recycling : 100% good for the planet ! I re...
The replica of this boat, "La Victoria", exists. I saw "her" once, to my great surprise, moored in a small port of the Basque Country. "She" was inaugurated at the Universal Exhibition of Sevilla (...
Thank you, my friend from the Antipodes... The VCOs wore the sword at the start of the war, which designated them as officers : we can clearly see the straps on the left side. The tropical light ...
Dear Mark, thank you for your honest answer. As I know very little about the Indian Army in 14-18, the subject interest me a lot... You gave me a fresh track : I followed it. I've found the unit ...
Comrade Dewis, I have never seen these photos (Royal Engineers, Indian troopers with their officers) in our History books in France : very cool. As I don't see any NCO chevrons, a question about t...
A mesma coisa em casa, amigo... Amanhã vai estar melhor !
Mark does well to clarify. Magellan was surely a great sailor, but his "second" managed to complete the voyage, from the Philippines to Spain, with a reduced crew, in more than difficult conditions...
You say the truth, Alessio : the parallel is obvious for me. Except that Napoléon, Emperor, screwed up generous ideals, while Hitler propagated "stinky" ideas. The result is almost the same ...
I note that the Pyrrhus (I) period corrresponds with a very strong expansionist trust of Celtic tribes towards Eastern and Southern Europe. This is the great period of the "Gallic" raids towards E...
That's so true, Anaia ! Mines and... sometimes mass graves. I forgot to specify the original use of the "sica" in mountain populations : a magnificent sheperd's and hunter's tool for cutting up an...
I agree with William. His (your) analysis is a good starting point. The Balkans are, from Antiquity until today, an ethnic mosaic. Finding the archetype of the Illyrian warrior is absolutely impos...
Don Alessio, I have the same analysis as yours. "Tous les Hommes naissent et demeurent libres et égaux en droits et en dignité", or "All men are born and remain free and equal in rig...
Thank you, Comrade. I agree with you : Lafayette was a very great and interesting character. At the same time Monarchist, without excess, and moderate but sincere Republican, abolitionist and good...
Hello JTam... No problem for the acronym SYW : I hesitated only 4 or 5 seconds ! I improve my English with you, that's great. Grumpy Gnome, mein guter Freund, the question of the "window of opport...
Very interesting photo. Not really surprising. The Italians had over 2.000 units, and the Germans had maybe 5.000 (or more) Austrian, Czech, Polish, Belgian, Dutch, French, Norwegian, Greek, Yugos...
Real coffins on tracks ! Developed in the 1930s, especially in France, Italy (and Japan), tankettes, or "chenillettes" in French, found themselves completely outclassed after the war in Spain. The...
Ene Anaiak (my Brothers), I suppose that the acronym SYW means Seven Years War... Right ? La Guerre de sept Ans, in French. The English were much wiser and more insightful than us, French. Not gi...
Dear Brian - and all of you, Your words make sense, and I understand the arguments put forward. No problem. You are talking about a dream of "free access for all", a kind of modern ideal for the h...
Thank you for the feed-back, Vissly Cao. It's exactly the same in Europe. But as I have family members and friends in Germany, Austria and Süd-Tirol, I understand that the subject of "the old...
To all. I don't have a definite opinion on the matter. I consider it is important "to play with cards on the table" (il est important de jouer cartes sur table). I just thing that the real cost pr...
Patrick Jauna, What you do - with simple cardboard ! - is absolutely amazing. It's quite magical : "du grand art"...
Sorry Red Bee, I don't really agree with your calculation method... If I compare the public price and the number of characters in a box, I obtain other results. The average price of a minifig is, ...
Exact Steffen... sorry. It's sometimes a bit difficult for me to stay focused in English. This language is far from natural for me. Edit ?
My good JTAM : What's great about (Roman) Antiquity is that even if I am a good connoisseur, I can learn something new every day ! The work carried out once the past 30-40 years is incredible, in ...
Pay attention to the scale of the Warlord's Imperial Legionaries (with segmentatae)... They are really very small compared to all the other minis of the mark (or competitors). Victrix ones are bett...
Open question... Honestly, do you really think it's useful and wise to complicate the scale system even further ? It's bad enough to have to juggle between 3 or 4 scales of vehicles, or to compar...
Dear and noble veteran, So, that was a compliment from you ! Alors merci, du fond du coeur... "Cracker" has a new and poetic meaning for me, direct from the Black - and Red - Country. As my dear ...
JTam... The Roman history offers clearly a lot of possibilities. Advise on making your choice ; start with browsing "Timeline of Roman history" on Wikipedia. You will spot the wars and peoples con...
For example, in the eyes of a connoisseur of the Roman army, the Aquilifer on the photo in black and white is out of the game... Why ? His function (bearing the sacred ensign of the Legion) assimi...
Hé, hé... the great and wise Man has spoken. You are right, Geoff : "Que chacun fasse comme il lui plaît" (let each do as he wishes)... I'm not sure if "being a little cracker"...
Honestly, it's better to avoid trying "to go faster than the music", as we say in French. The Roman army before the reforms of Marius (c. 107 BCE) is not the same as the armies of the civil wars (...
With great pleasure, Comrade... As a Basque(-Roman) reenactor, I was a veteran of the Sertorius' Army in the Pyrenean Mountains (Sertorian war, Iacetania - Huesca, from 80 to 72 BCE), then defenso...
The problem, in my opinion, is not really the scale of the vehicles "per se", but what I want to do with them... using minis I like. The WW2 minis from Warlord are awesome, but they are definitely...
Thank you, "adiskidea", you answered my question. Very interesting. As a former reenactor (Roman Republic and Aquitanian-Basque Proto-History), I like to know what motivates each of the History en...
I am 100% on your line, Steffen. Republican legions under Marius, Sylla, Sertorius, Pompey father and son, Caesar, Crassus, Marc Antony, Octavus-Augustus, etc., with possibilities of "westernizing...
Thanks for the reading tip. In fact, there is no real consensus... I think that a 1/50th scale would be an excellent compromise (vehicles usable both with 28mm WW2 and 28-32mm SCI-FI minis). In ad...
To JTam : A small question, a little personal perhaps... Where does your interest in Finnish militaria come from ?
Very funny, it looks like Rammstein !!! I didn't knew Afri'kola : modern Pervitin ? What is good for us, Basques, is that our solar cross (lauburu) is still usable... That's a fact : in Asia, the...
I prefer 1/48 scale too. I find 1/48 vehicles are perfect for the 28mm minis (slightly bulky, a little bit exagerated), and they are closer to the real man-machine size difference on the photos. ...
Grumpy Gnome is right. He talks about what you call "common sense" (in French, we say GOOD sense, "bon sens"), as the question of the price of things risks to become more and more important... Due...