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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/01/25 00:01:44
Subject: Pics of PSC 15mm US Infantry up!
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1st Lieutenant
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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mwnciboo wrote: washout77 wrote:
EDIT: I should also mention, I help with reenactments at Gettysburg and im enlisting soon. I don't consider myself mentally ill...
Top tips,
1. "I should also mention....." Don't mention this at basic training
2. Enlisting soon.....Good on you, but until you qualify and see active service you will only ever see things from one side of the glass.
Experience tempers everything - Dressing up and playing pretend is great for kids but Corinthians 13:11 puts it best "When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me."
Pushing models around a table is one thing, dressing up and running around is quite another.
Oh, I know. I train with the same buddy who reenacts, and that crap is gonna be an...interesting time....don't think im ignorant...
Whole point being, not everyone is mentally ill for enjoying a hobby and they just so happened to be in the military. Our hobby is playing with toy soldiers, their hobby is reenacting. They aren't mentally ill for it.
ANYWAY, this thread has been so derailed....
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/01/25 00:23:58
Subject: Pics of PSC 15mm US Infantry up!
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Plenty of veterans reenact and there's nothing more or less childish about it than painting and playing with toy soldiers.
There is also nothing wrong with talking about operations, in fact talking about operations is often very important and helpful for veterans who struggle with PTSD. If someone doesn't want to talk about it, that's fine too, but if someone wants to talk about with friends or family or whoever else it certainly shouldn't be discouraged.
If we're going to toss around verses and quotes about being childish, I think C.S. Lewis has something decent to add to the conversation:
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
As far as the PSC minis go: I've mentioned before I'm not a fan of plastic 15mm infantry (too fragile), but if I was going to use plastic 15mm infantry, I'm sure these would work fine. I'm not too sold on multi-part 15mm infantry either. I don't really want to be fiddling with gluing together a bunch of minis that small. There is enough variation in poses that you can make each base look unique by just using different combinations of poses or even mixing minis from other manufacturers. I'm not sure PSC infantry would mix well with metal minis from other companies, but I suppose we won't know about these ones for sure until they're actually released.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/01/25 02:16:30
Subject: Pics of PSC 15mm US Infantry up!
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1st Lieutenant
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Hordini wrote:
As far as the PSC minis go: I've mentioned before I'm not a fan of plastic 15mm infantry (too fragile), but if I was going to use plastic 15mm infantry, I'm sure these would work fine. I'm not too sold on multi-part 15mm infantry either. I don't really want to be fiddling with gluing together a bunch of minis that small. There is enough variation in poses that you can make each base look unique by just using different combinations of poses or even mixing minis from other manufacturers. I'm not sure PSC infantry would mix well with metal minis from other companies, but I suppose we won't know about these ones for sure until they're actually released.
You share my exact views. I have found all the plastic 15mm infantry I have to be annoying to say the least. I wouldn't say fragile, most of it is pretty sturdy (obviously tiny little details like antennas and things are weak), but I hate anything 15mm that's multi-part. After putting together 50 Russians with multi-part pieces, I wanted to just dip it all in glue and call it a day.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/01/25 02:55:41
Subject: Pics of PSC 15mm US Infantry up!
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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I like the BF plastic infantry from the Open Fire set, they have their areas where detail is pretty soft but overall they seemed pretty decent. Looking forward to seeing what they will do with that in the future.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/01/25 03:56:19
Subject: Pics of PSC 15mm US Infantry up!
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Oberleutnant
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mwnciboo wrote: ArbeitsSchu wrote:
I'd like to think that a real Para would have a bit of respect for the elderly...
On exercise once on Salisbury Plain the Para's threw faeces at passing Landy Defenders (Officers Vehicles), I remember my own vehicle was caked in "Guano", I remember this quite vividly because about 800 metres away a Company of Gurka's were sitting quietly in neat lines talking to one another. A starker contrast I couldn't imagine, same Army different ethos.
Para's are animals, disciplined but still have that feral streak - and No mistake, you want frontline, shock assault Infantry - You pick the "Rough, tough and mean" of course there are exceptions, but Para's aren't recruited for their social graces or their amazing academic abilities. Some come out well adjusted, but most don't - The amount of Para's who end up in trouble on assa
Hordini wrote:
How do you know he's not a real para? It's not like there are no actual veterans who reenact.
Anyone who has seen active service would not dress up as themselves and run around pretending, ( like a Fireman or Policeman doesn't dress up in his spare time and pretend to do the same job during his time off, because it is mentally ill).
Those that cannot let go when they leave the Services are usually doomed and won't re-adjust to society and expect everyone to be as they demand and adjust to them. Exactly the same as the "Unspoken Rule" that people don't talk about what happens on Operations, or when they have to do the less palatable parts that their duty demands.
Bit of a jump from throwing crap at Land Rovers to beating up on old folk. Automatically Appended Next Post: Palindrome wrote: Hordini wrote:
How do you know he's not a real para? It's not like there are no actual veterans who reenact.
His beret hasn't been shaped properly.
Funny that, because I've seen a lot of WW2 para pictures in various states of rest and action, and they tend to be in quite a few interesting shapes, not all of them 'shaped'. Also, when you say 'shaped'. who are you thinking of? What unit/units/time period? I only ask, because WW2 berets have a bigger crown than their modern cousins.
Just like to point out the juxtaposition here, between 'Para's are all feral beasts' and 'they all wear their hats neatly and by the numbers'.
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"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all" Mario Savio |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/01/25 04:31:53
Subject: Pics of PSC 15mm US Infantry up!
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Lord of the Fleet
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Can we drop the topic of paras and berets
What does that have to do with 15mm american infantry from PSC
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/01/25 10:00:00
Subject: Pics of PSC 15mm US Infantry up!
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Regular Dakkanaut
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ArbeitsSchu wrote:
I'd like to think that a real Para would have a bit of respect for the elderly...
Para's are animals, disciplined but still have that feral streak - and No mistake, you want frontline, shock assault Infantry - You pick the "Rough, tough and mean" of course there are exceptions, but Para's aren't recruited for their social graces or their amazing academic abilities. Some come out well adjusted, but most don't - The amount of Para's who end up in trouble on assa
My dad had dealings with Paras when he was in the army. He reckoned they were all completely mental. Good people to have on your side in a fight mind, but mental.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/01/25 10:37:30
Subject: Pics of PSC 15mm US Infantry up!
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Lieutenant Colonel
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Back on track  ......
I really like my PSC Infantry, but after 20 months of use once a week, they are looking tatty and a little broken.
Last night I actually got a look at the OPEN FIRE Plastics, I am very impressed as they are much more solid than the PSC versions.
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