Saturday, 1 October 2022

A Third Force(2)

I have been reading around Romania a bit and looking at photos. Also found some footage-

https://streaming.britishpathe.com/hls-vod/flash/00000000/00076000/00076706.mp4.m3u8

https://streaming.britishpathe.com/hls-vod/MEDIA-4/archive/1VPZ/2008-10-20T000000Z_1_LVAET5LMTE8G1WP78JKEGMEHZPV1_RTRWNEV_F_KING-CAROL-II-OF-ROMANIA-INSPECTS-TROOPS.MP4.m3u8

Broke out the Funken books too. The WW1 volumes were a birthday present from my parents when I was around twelve or so . I eagerly anticipated these books I had asked for . The day of my birthday dawned and I had the flu. I very briefly opened the two volumes but wasn’t up to it. They lay beside my bed until I felt a little better in the days to come. This illustration was one of my favourites-


Will work further on the figures over the weekend…

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  1. rross1 October 2022 at 07:32

    Good old Funcken, eh? I had both sets if the Napoleonic in sift covers, purchased via Military Modelling circa 1976 for £5.95 the pair! Unfortunately I leant Vol Ine to a friend over here in NZ circa 1995 and lost track of both Hom and the book...bit of a bugger but I have plenty more Napoleonic uniform references....Romania sounds like a good source of inspiration for Mittel Europa in the Thirties....

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    1. rross1 October 2022 at 07:33

      Bloody hell...I have problems with i and o, don't I?

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    2. Anonymous2 October 2022 at 07:53

      Funcken still delivers imho. Sadly at a pre book purge twenty five years ago I got rid of the ww2 volumes. I have sensibly retained my 18th century and medieval ones.
      Alan Tradgardland

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  2. Donnie McGibbon1 October 2022 at 13:59

    Romania style country would seem like a very good fit.

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    1. Anonymous2 October 2022 at 07:53

      I’m beginning to come round to that way of thinking very much…
      Alan Tradgardland

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  3. James Shepherd1 October 2022 at 20:33

    Brilliant finds, the first film was Greece? The troops at the beginning looked like Evzones.

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    1. Anonymous2 October 2022 at 07:54

      I believe it was a pageant to celebrate Transylvanian history.
      Alan Tradgardland

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  4. Mark Man Of TIN2 October 2022 at 06:52

    Lovely Funckens! I could only ever find the French language ones when young. These made your French lessons a little more focussed (and puzzles your French teacher with queries about a highly specialist uniform or military French vocabulary).
    Good choice for WW1 into interwar / WW2.
    Hopefully some Ottakar / Evzone type troops will be produced by MLS?

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    1. Anonymous2 October 2022 at 07:56

      I would have loved to hear your teacher’s thoughts on your questions. Mark C does have some fascinating figures coming with wave three. Watch this space.
      Alan Tradgardland

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  5. Mark Man Of TIN2 October 2022 at 07:45

    There are some very cheap copies of the Albert Kahn Book BBC 2008 on his early autochrome colour photographs of Europe and the world 1910s to 1929, before the crash which ruined him and his project “The Archives Of the World”. Thought that might interest you as it covers Eastern Europe and the Balkans in one section. (This is the book of the) Great BBC / DVD series but the DVD discs still a bit pricey second hand.

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  6. Anonymous2 October 2022 at 07:57

    A great heads up , I will investigate further…
    Alan Tradgardland

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  7. Anonymous2 October 2022 at 08:00

    P.S just ordered a second hand copy for a fiver including postage, looking forward to it already!
    Alan Tradgardland

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