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Gurkhas in 1/35th from La Meridiana
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Posted: Thursday, October 02, 2008 - 11:52 PM UTC
The Italian manufacturer, La Meridiana Miniatures have announced two very welcome figures in the form of two, 1/35th scale Gurkhas. The full story can be seen:

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Posted: Friday, October 03, 2008 - 02:51 AM UTC
Very cool! Nice poses and they appear to finish up well! Glad to see some more Commonwealth representation on the modeling scene.
Rick
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Posted: Friday, October 03, 2008 - 02:06 PM UTC
Nice figures, although I see that the Bren is undersized as pointed out by Al Bowie in the initial announcement: https://hfmodeling.kitmaker.net/forums/122073

I thought these knives were called khukri or kukri?
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Posted: Friday, October 03, 2008 - 02:51 PM UTC

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Very cool! Nice poses and they appear to finish up well! Glad to see some more Commonwealth representation on the modeling scene.
Rick


I agree with the above, however I am not to sure about the faces.
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Posted: Friday, October 03, 2008 - 04:33 PM UTC

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Very cool! Nice poses and they appear to finish up well! Glad to see some more Commonwealth representation on the modeling scene.
Rick


I agree with the above, however I am not to sure about the faces.


I agree with you Thomo, the large rings around the eyes of the Bren gunner and his pronounced jaw makes him look monkey-like. I think that the Nepalese people have quite soft features. The guy with the kukri's face looks the better of the two in my opinion.


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Posted: Friday, October 03, 2008 - 07:20 PM UTC
That said, I'd reserve judgement for a preview of these figures. The way they have been painted may not be the most helpful in judging the facial details.
Wait and see photos of the bare resin me reckons...
Brad
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Posted: Friday, October 03, 2008 - 09:22 PM UTC

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That said, I'd reserve judgement for a preview of these figures. The way they have been painted may not be the most helpful in judging the facial details.
Wait and see photos of the bare resin me reckons...
Brad


Yip, nice to see some more Commonwealth troops, I'm with Brad on the faces.

Al
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Posted: Friday, October 03, 2008 - 09:33 PM UTC

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Wait and see photos of the bare resin me reckons...


No sooner said than done...





Hmmm... I think you may well be onto something...
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Posted: Saturday, October 04, 2008 - 12:31 AM UTC
I've seen these bare resin photos before (in the first announcement) and I rest my case. I cannot see the need for the sculptor to put huge rings around the eyes of the Bren gunner. In my opinion, the facial features are not an accurate representation of Nepalese people.

I'm also very disappointed about the Bren gun being over-sized. I think, according to the initial announcement, that these figures stand at about 60mm so it is obvious that LMM have not bothered sculpting a larger scaled Bren gun. This might also mean that these figures will not work well in 1:35 scale...

hmm...
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Posted: Saturday, October 04, 2008 - 04:14 AM UTC
Despite the sculpting issues, great choice of subject matter. Maybe some Hornet heads to the rescue? Personally, I'm hoping that we'll see some Gurkha figures in Pacific kit in the future... Regards, Johnny B.
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