atlantic march on rome in 54mm

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did they rob a britains package idea

atlantic 1.32 germans

i m selling off a huge quantity of atantic 54mm that my son doesnt want . heres some, germans at 2.00 each unpainted. these are painted and are not for sale

55mm indians by atlantic

atlantic brigade. i'm selling these at 2.50 per soldier if you are interested contact me but be quick as they are going real fast and im not just saying that.if i can send them by my company post i won't charge you post but otherwise 10 per cent, you can collect in london when im there

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the swiss border 1914 and the heart of a ponce

During both World War I and World War II, Switzerland managed to keep a stance of armed neutrality, and was not involved militarily.Switzerland was and is a country of bumpkins and ponces whose contribution to the wars in Europe was to rob the Jews and anyone else put in a concentration camp.
In a war neutral shit doesn't exist.swiss officers helmet
 However, precisely because of its neutral status, Switzerland was of considerable interest to all parties involved, as the scene for diplomacy, espionage, commerce, and as a safe haven for refugees.

Switzerland maintained a state of armed neutrality during the war. However with the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary and the Entente Powers of France and Italy all sharing borders and populations with Switzerland, this was not easy to accomplish. regulars

From December 1914 until the spring of 1918 Swiss troops were deployed in the Jura along the French border over concern that the trench war might spill into Switzerland. Of lesser concern was the Italian border, but troops were also stationed in the Unterengadin region of Graubünden.

 While the German speaking majority generally favoured the Central Powers, the French and, later, Italian speaking population sided with the Entente Powers which would cause conflict in 1918, but keep the country out of the war.french mountain soldier by mokarex

 During the war Switzerland was blockaded by the Allies and therefore suffered some difficulties. However, because Switzerland was centrally located, neutral, and generally undamaged, the war allowed the growth of the Swiss banking industry.They showed very little remorse for robbing anyone who was killed i n a concentration camp as regards their wealth left in a bank.

 For the same reasons, Switzerland became a haven for refugees and revolutionaries.Above are Swiss regulars. The Swiss army was to war what Campari was to real drinking.

Following the organization of the army in 1907 and expansion in 1911, the Swiss Army consisted of about 250,000 men with an additional 200,000 in supporting roles.

 The size of the Swiss military was considered by both sides in the pre-War years, especially in the Schlieffen Plan. Following an impressive showing during manoeuvres in 1912 both France and Germany were convinced of the professionalism of the Swiss Army.

Following the declarations of war in July 1914, on August 1, 1914 the Swiss Army was mobilized and by August 7 the newly appointed general Ulrich Wille had about 220,000 men under his command. By 11 August much of the army had been deployed along the Jura border with France, with smaller units deployed along the east and southern borders. This remained unchanged until May 1915 when Italy entered the war on the Entente side, at which point troops were deployed to the Unterengadin valley, Val Müstair and along the southern border.

Once it became clear that the Allies and Central Powers would respect Swiss neutrality, the number of troops deployed began to drop. After September 1914, some soldiers were released to return to their farms and vital industries. In November 1916, the Swiss had only 38,000 men in the army.

This number increased during the winter of 1916-17 to over 100,000 as a result of a proposed French attack that would cross Switzerland.

When this attack failed to occur the army began to shrink again. Because of widespread workers' strikes, by the end of the war the army had shrunk to only 12,500 men.

During the war the Swiss border was crossed about 1,000 times by belligerents with some of these incidents occurring around the Dreisprachen Piz or Three Languages Peak (near the Stelvio Pass; languages being Italian, Romansh and German).

Switzerland had an outpost and a hotel (which was destroyed as it was used by the Austrians) on the peak. During the war, fierce battles were fought in the ice and snow of the area, with gun fire even crossing into Swiss areas at times. The three nations made an agreement not to fire over Swiss territory which jutted out between Austria (to the north) and Italy (to the south). Instead they could fire down the pass, as Swiss territory was around the peak.

Following the outbreak of the war, neutral Switzerland became a haven for many politicians, artists, pacifists, and thinkers. Berne, Zürich and Geneva became centres of debate and discussion.

 In Zürich two very different anti-war groups would create a lasting change on the world, the Bolsheviks and the Dadaists.

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Plaque on Lenin's house at Spiegelgasse 14 in ZürichThe Bolsheviks were a faction of socialists that centred around Lenin. Following the outbreak of the war, Lenin was stunned when the large Social Democratic parties of Europe (at that time self-described as Marxist)[citation needed] supported their various countries’ war efforts.swiss border guards

 Lenin (against the war in his belief that the peasants and workers were fighting the battle of the bourgeoisie for them) adopted the stance that what he described as an “imperialist war” ought to be turned into a civil war between the classes.Not a very nice country all things considered, Lenin must have been very dissapointed with the Swiss , even there alps were first climbed by the British.

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quiz. what are they ?

THE PROFESSIONALS

A wealthy rancher, Frank Carter (Ralph Bellamy), hires four tough gunslingers to

The Professionals is a 1966 American western starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin and Claudia Cardinale.

The film, which was written and directed by Richard Brooks, was based on the novel A Mule for the Marquesa by Frank O'Rourke. It received three nominations at the 1967 Academy Awards.

The film came out around the same time I was in the Essex Road watching the man with no name in For a few dollars more or was it the other one anyway the director of this film shpows that Americans do it better and Sergio Leone in comparison sucked badly. It is maybe one of the best films ever made in any genre, lets say up there with them. Its main underlying conviction is on the fact that America was going bad and in Bellamy read Bush , Bush junior and Nixon plus all the other "faces " behind the scenes that stir up shit all across the globe.

In the latter period of the Mexican Revolution, Rancher J.W. Grant (Ralph Bellamy) hires four men, who are all experts in their respective fields, to rescue his kidnapped wife, Maria (Claudia Cardinale) from Jesus Raza (Jack Palance), a former Mexican Revolutionary leader turned bandit.bellamy

Team leader Rico Fardan (Lee Marvin) is a weapons specialist, Bill Dolworth (Burt Lancaster) is an explosives expert, the horse wrangler is Hans Ehrengard (Robert Ryan) and Jake Sharp (Woody Strode) is a scout with traditional Apache skills, particularly with a bow and arrow. Fardan and Dolworth, having both fought under the command of Pancho Villa, have a high regard for Raza as a soldier. But they are hard and cynical professionals so they have no qualms about killing him now.

After crossing the Mexican border, the team tracks the bandits to their hideout. They bear witness as soldiers on a government train are massacred by Raza's small army. The professionals follow the captured train to the end of the line and retake it from the bandits. Some move on to the bandit camp and observe Raza and his followers — including a buxom soldier, Chiquita (Marie Gomez). At nightfall, Fardan infiltrates Raza's private quarters but he is stopped from killing him by Maria, the kidnapped wife. "Amigo," Dolworth concludes, "we've been had."

Fardan does what he is being paid for and escapes with Grant's wife. Back at the train, the men find that it has been retaken by the bandits. After a shootout, they retreat into the mountains, hotly pursued by Raza and his men. The professionals evade capture by using explosives to bring down the walls of a gully, thus blocking the path. But as Raza and his group are relentless, Dolworth acts as a rearguard to allow the others to escape. The bandit leader is captured, battered and wounded following an ambush.

The four professionals, with Maria and Raza, reach the U.S. border to be met by Grant and his own men. It is then revealed that they had not rescued his kidnapped wife but Raza's willing mistress. Grant "bought" Maria for an arranged marriage only for her to escape and return to her "true love" in Mexico. The pleased rancher then tells Fardan that their contract has been completed to his full satisfaction and he releases them from the business agreement.

As Maria hugs the wounded Raza on the ground, Grant callously turns to one of his men and says, "Kill him." But before the man can shoot, the gun is shot out of his hand by Dolworth who tells Grant he has not earned the right to kill a man like Raza. The four professionals then step in to protect Maria and Raza. Grant calls Fardan a bastard, to which Fardan retorts: "Yes, sir, in my case an accident of birth. But you, sir, you are a self-made man."

The professionals collect the wounded Raza, put him on a carriage and, with Grant's wife at the reins, send them both back to Mexico. They collect their things and follow on horseback.

CastBurt Lancaster ... Bill Dolworth

Lee Marvin ... Henry 'Rico' Fardan

Claudia Cardinale ... Mrs. Maria Grant

Robert Ryan ... Hans Ehrengard

Woody Strode ... Jake Sharp

Jack Palance ... Jesus Raza

Ralph Bellamy ... Joe Grant

Joe De Santis ... Ortega

Rafael Bertrand ... Fierro

Jorge Martínez de Hoyos ... Goatkeeper

Marie Gomez ... Chiquita

José Chávez ... Revolutionary

Carlos Romero ... Revolutionary

Vaughn Taylor ... Money-Delivering Banker

Production notesDuring the filming of a scene where Maria attempts to escape through a canyon wired with dynamite, Cardinale's stunt double was badly injured. Cardinale, who had never ridden a horse before, performed the stunt herself in the final cut.

The movie was filmed in Technicolor on location in Death Valley and the Valley of Fire, showing the latter prominently. During filming, the cast and crew stayed in Las Vegas. Actor Woody Strode wrote in his memoirs that he and Marvin got into a lot of pranks, on one occasion shooting an arrow into Vegas Vic, the famous smiling cowboy neon sign outside The Pioneer Club.

The railway scenes were filmed on Kaiser Steel's Eagle Mountain Railroad. The steam locomotive seen in the movie currently resides on the Heber Valley Railroad

The Italians read more comics than newspapers and this comic here is an example of a long running series featuring a character called Tex willer . Here is his adventure with the Buffalo soldiers. There has always been a discreet link between toy soldiers and comics in that inspiration has been draswn from comicville by people like the Britains designer and the one who worked for Herald plus Peter Cole in his book states that their was a heavy influence.

getting it wrong

imperial guards painted as brits

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naval landing party by lone star

im sure this is lone star but on second thoughts look very like charbens but it was strange they did a naval landing party

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texas acw

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The state of Texas declared its secession from the United States on February 1, 1861, and joined the Confederate States of America on March 2, 1861, replacing its governor, Sam Houston, when he refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy.

 During the subsequent American Civil War, Texas was most useful for supplying soldiers for Confederate forces and in the cavalry. Texas was mainly a "supply state" for the Confederate forces until mid-1863, when the Union capture of the Mississippi River made large movements of men, horses or cattle impossible. Spanish find the mississipi

Some cotton was sold in Mexico, but most of the crop became useless because of the Federal naval blockade of Galveston and other ports.

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In the late winter of 1861, Texas counties sent delegates to a special convention to debate the merits of secession. The convention adopted an Ordinance of Secession by a vote of 166 to 8, which was ratified by a popular referendum on February 23.

Separately from the Ordinance of Secession, Texas also issued a declaration of causes spelling out the rationale for secession.

 The document specifies several reasons for secession, including its solidarity with its "sister slave-holding States," the Federal government's inability to prevent Indian attacks, slave-stealing raids, and other border-crossing acts of banditry.

 It accuses Northern politicians and abolitionists of a variety of outrages upon Texans. The bulk of the document offers a justification of slavery and white supremacy, including this extract:

We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.

—Secession Convention, "A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union"

Secession Convention and the Confederacy

Following the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, public opinion in the cotton states of the Deep South (South Carolina through Texas) swung in favor of secession. By February 1861, the other six states of the sub-region had separately passed ordinances of secession. Unlike the other "Cotton States" chief executives, who took the initiative in secessionist efforts, Houston refused to call the Texas Legislature into special session to consider the question, relenting only when it became apparent citizens were prepared to act without him.

In December 1860, a group of state officials drew up a petition declaring Lincoln's election an imminent danger to Southern rights and called for a statewide election of delegates to assemble in convention in January to decide Texas' course.

 Houston called the legislature into session, gambling that the elected body might be inclined—or persuaded—to block any separatist action by the convention.

On January 21, 1861, the legislature met in Austin and was addressed by Houston. Calling Lincoln's election "unfortunate" he nonetheless emphasized—in a reference to the upcoming meeting of the secession convention—it was no justification for "rash action".

 The Texas Legislature voted the delegates expense money and supplies. Over Houston's veto, the Legislature made a pledge to uphold the legality of the Convention's actions, requiring only that the people of Texas have the final say in referendum.

With gubernatorial forces routed, the Secession Convention convened on January 28 and, in the first order of business, voted to back the legislature 140–28 in that an ordinance of secession, if adopted, be submitted for state-wide consideration.

 The following day, convention president Oran Roberts introduced a resolution suggesting Texas leave the Union. The ordinance was read on the floor the next day, citing the failures of the federal government to protect the lives and property of Texas citizens and accusing the Northern states of using the same as a weapon to "strike down the interests and prosperity" of the Southern people.

After the grievances were listed, the ordinance repealed the ordinance of July 4, 1845—in which Texas approved annexation by the United States and the Constitution of the United States—and revoked all powers of, obligations to, and allegiance to the U.S. federal government and the U.S. Constitution.

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one of the greatest toys ever made

i had this as a kid and i can tell you it was the most played with toy i had, never looked after it though and it was soon in pieces

my collection french foreign legion captain

i photographed a model of a foreign legion officer in indo-china

early conversions

britains just got a paint job while the airfix got a new pistol

bmc standard infantry into a sharpshooter. i plan to mould this into metal then on the metal model make a better conversion.

my collection

an old plastic conversion I did from a BMC figure. Didnt turn out great though. you win some lose some.

alamo

tell me about your alamo conversions

what are these?

british life guards