Most popular eras for figure painters

[Babelfish]

Not sure if this has been done before (may have been, but don't recall seeing it in my time here).

Just for fun really, but the results could be interesting.

I think I've covered most bases, hopefully without having too many choices.

Pick just one.

Haven't set a time limit. Just going to let it run a while and see how it pans out.

I'll pin it for now to give it a bit of a start. I can always unpin it if people get bored with it.

Enjoy!

 

[megroot]

Pitty i just can do One.
My periode of interest is WW 1 and Napoleontic. Vote for the last because I have more Nappi's then WW 1 figures.

marc

 

[Mark S]

You haven't included partially or fully naked women Steve......they may seem to be fantasy to us known as "the withered" but I think it's still a category all it's own.
I won't mention it to Mrs. Babelfish.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

I guess you all know what I did choose.

Cheers
Janne Nilsson

 

[peedee]

I don't want to unduly influence any voting, but if anyone else votes WW2 me and the others in the bearskin and shako corner will shove our sabretaches up yer Waffenbarbe baby.

Vive l'Entrepreneurs et les maquettistes.

P

 

[Babelfish]

LOL Paul!

Yes for some reason those pointing Germans in their coal-scuttle helmets are irresistable to many!

- Steve

 

[peedee]

LOL Paul!
Yes for some reason those pointing Germans in their coal-scuttle helmets are irresistable to many! Steve

Well, I just hope they run out of grey paint in their hobby store.

Mooh-hoo, hoo-hoo, ha-ha, ha-haaaaaaar.

Paul.

 

[peedee]

You haven't included partially or fully naked women Steve......they may seem to be fantasy to us known as "the withered" but I think it's still a category all it's own.
I won't mention it to Mrs. Babelfish.

(Mark ?.......don't mention he forgot film and TV too.
tsch..... never mind..... we can demand a recount on this basis if the poll collater doesn't give us the result we want...don't tell him).

P

 

[Babelfish]

Fear not Paul, it's all above board and very transparent! It won't be like those EU referendums in which countries that vote NO are made to vote again until they deliver the "right" result that the politicians want!

- Steve

 

[peedee]

Dayammn

Desole

P.

 

[theBaron]

I think the Kaiser's Army (Hohenzollern Empire) deserved to be represented. You've basically bracketed it with the Franco-Prussian War and WWI.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Babelfish]

Fair shout Brad, I knew I'd probably missed something out. I was trying to offer a broad range of choices but without breaking it down too much. The flipside of course is that if I'd made 2 categories (say Hohenzollern Empire and French Second Empire / Third Republic) you can bet your pension that someone would have come along and said "but I like both!"

It's not an exact science, some categories obviously overlap with others to an extent. I'll certainly bear it in mind for future reference though.

- Steve

 

[billyturnip]

All of the above as long as they are flat.

 

[Dan Morton]

Oh Roger, you're much too predictable.

All the best,
Dan

 

[Helm]

Pffft Napoleonic my eye, we were hammering the French long before that Medieval baby

 

[theBaron]

Heh heh heh, Roger, I did a spit take!

 

[theBaron]

Fair shout Brad, I knew I'd probably missed something out. I was trying to offer a broad range of choices but without breaking it down too much. The flipside of course is that if I'd made 2 categories (say Hohenzollern Empire and French Second Empire / Third Republic) you can bet your pension that someone would have come along and said "but I like both!"

It's not an exact science, some categories obviously overlap with others to an extent. I'll certainly bear it in mind for future reference though.

- Steve

Yeah, I hear ya, Steve! I know it's tough.

Maybe "fin de siecle", for the world from the 1880s up to July 1914 would have covered it. No worries, though!

Prost!
Brad

 

[peedee]

Lol boys, I love this...so much fun.

There is no way I would have put this thread up myself Steve..
my categories would have offered you the proper complete choices which is all a modeller needs.

1) Sum fellers wrapped in metal with sharpy sticks and sewn on badges.

2) Elegant gentlemen in powdered wigs that doff their hat before their battalion volleyfired your team off the pitch.

3) Royalist and the French Revolution
3a) The Consulate period of the Republic of France
3b) The 1st Empire of France
3c) Bonapartists prentending to be Royalists so they had a job after Waterloo.

4) Native first Americans.

5) Gentelemen that wear the plaid to battle.

6) Trumpeters and kettledrummers

So you are a braver man than me...obviously.

Paul

 

[mick3272]

Well Steve,
Bit of head scratching, between British Empire and Crimean War.
Plucked for BE as that covers the period of the crimean war.
I take the point that there were French Turks and Russians in the
Crimean war, but they don't count as they wern't British.
Mick

 

[Forté]

Just the one vote