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[diamond cutter]

I agree

 

[Johan]

Living in coventry its interesting to see the results of Mondscheinsonate.
Mind you, local town planners have done a lot more damage than the luftwaffe did since the war. its a sh*thole.

The pilots who had that insignia on their aircraft actually tried to prevent Moonlight Sonatas happening in Germany; not that it helped much.
Which city nowadays isn't a sh*thole ?

Just curious - who will be receiving the paper your captain Nolan's holding ? Lord Cardigan or the guy who temporarily made use of your garden to leave that specimen you spoke of in the other thread ? ... just joking !

 

[Johan]

Actually, Sid Horton of Chota Sahib (good old days) did a series of personalities of the Light Brigade at Balaclava incident ... I put them all together here in one image, if you have the intention to do companion figures for this one, here's what they looked like - i'm sure Sid Horton did some good research on uniforms etc so you can use this as a guide.

L to R : capt Nolan, Capt Morris of 17L, a British Staff Officer, Lord Lucan, Lord Raglan, Lord Cardigan, and finally a trooper of 17L

 

[Martin Antonenko]

Gib' mir deine Hand, deine weiße Hand,
Leb' wohl, mein Schatz, leb' wohl mein Schatz,
Leb' wohl, lebe wohl
Denn wir fahren, denn wir fahren,
Denn wir fahren gegen England, England.

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Hi Johan!

Just a question - I know its OT:

Do you think a Nazi propaganda song that glorifies the submarine war against England is an appropriate signature in this forum?

Regards

 

[Colin_Fraser]

Actually Sid's figs were pretty good for the time. I am going to dust off my Cardigan, Nolan and Morris and have a bash at them again some day. Very small for 54's though.

Sid did a fondly remembered series in Airfix Mag on converting Airfix figs to represent the Light Brigade.

Colin

 

[Funky50]

Those 54mm Airfix figures were and still are very good.....to be honest I always thought they better than Historex figures...was it true that airfix almost released a rorkes drift figure in 54 mm?

 

[Silversurfer]

Actually Sid's figs were pretty good for the time. I am going to dust off my Cardigan, Nolan and Morris and have a bash at them again some day. Very small for 54's though.

Sid did a fondly remembered series in Airfix Mag on converting Airfix figs to represent the Light Brigade.

Colin

I dusted off my "Lord Haw Haw" today and he got his first primer. Have a lot of the old Chota Sahib figs, they must not hide from many of today´s sculptures in this scale, I think. Mostly the Yeomanry figures are a class of its own.
You can see most of these on this page: http://lrmminiatures.com/chota_sahib intro.htm

Thomas

 

[Johan]

I dusted off my "Lord Haw Haw" today and he got his first primer.
Thomas

.... Gooood ! Now start painting like a good boy, eh, and if you're good you'll get cookies.

 

[Silversurfer]

Take your cookies and take them where it´s dark all the time!!

 

[Barke02]

Fantastic figure as usual Moz!

The fur trim looks really well done.

Johan, with regard to the history of your avatar maybe this will help:

The famous 'Englandblitz' was the 1940 staffel badge of a day fighter unit, the first staffel of Zestorergeschwader 1 (1/ZG 1), flying Messerchmitt Bf110 twin engined aircraft. It was designed by Victor Molders, the younger brother of the famous Werner Molders.

On 22nd June 1940 1/ZG 1 were transferred to become the nucleus of the new first staffel of Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 (1/NJG 1) and Victor's staffel badge went with him. Eventually what had been a single staffel badge went on to become the symbol of all Nachtjadgeschwader.

In the upheaval of 1/ZG 1 becoming 1/NJG 1 several crews were split up, and Victor lost his own long standing Bordfunker, Feldwebel Helmut Krappatsch. This may have swayed Victor's decision to transfer to his brother's single seater fighter unit, III Gruppe Jagdgeschwader 51 (III/JG 51), flying Messerschmitt Bf109 fighters in the Battle of Britain. It was as Staffelkapitain of 2 staffel JG51 that he was shot down over Sussex on 7th October 1940.

For more information I recommend 'Zerstorer. The Messerschmitt 110 and its units in 1940' by John J. Vasco and Peter Cornwell.

Also see pages 166 - 167 'The Blitz Then and Now volume 2' edited by Winston G. Ramsey which has an excellent account of Victor's force landing at Doleham Farm, tea and cakes in the farmhouse kitchen, and being escorted to Battle police station, including 6 sketchs that Victor made of this event.

All the best,
Jon.

 

[Johan]

Thank you Jon I knew it was the badge of NJG1 and later other NJG, who were on several airfields in Belgium and Holland during the war - St Truiden, Florennes ,Venlo, Leeuwarden and I forget some.
I had absolutely no idea at all that it was Molders' brother who designed it - would have rather thought someone like Falck invented it.
Thanks for the info, going to copy-paste this in a word doc and save

Now let's get back to the figure - this captain Nolan is nice, but he needs a companion piece I feel, so let's rather talk about that.

 

[Johan]

Take your cookies and take them where it´s dark all the time!!

No, no, no, you don't put it properly - we say : "where the sun doesn't shine". Now go paint your Haw Haw.

 

[ometz]

I was able to purchase this figure a couple of months ago--another beauty from a talented sculptor.

 

[Oldironsides]

Lovely figure Moz.

Any thoughts about doing a companion figure of Lord Raglan or his staff officer?

 

[MCPWilk]

I think a company called the "Roll Call" produced a 120mm figure of Captain Nolan many years ago. Don't know what happened to the sculptor though.........

 

[diamond cutter]

I'm looking forward to the horse.
I hope that it is sculpted having a massive and stinking Horseshit

 

[Daniel.M]

Great Job! We like the high end details at this. Bravo.
Daniel & Katka

 

[moz]

Nolan passed on the note to Lord Lucan so there`s a possibility.
There is a horse coming for the figure in light cavalry tack.

 

[Funky50]

"There my lord There is your enemy" ! Now where's my old charge of the light brigade VHS

 

[Silversurfer]

... better try to remember fe. something interesting about Captain Nolan so that you can add any useful constructive comments to this thread

Like You?!? No, thank you. I´ll go and earn my cookies.