Kelly’s Heroes Are Immortalized by Oniria Miniatures
February 16, 2015 by stvitusdancern
Oniria Miniatures has releases a four pack of high quality miniatures that immortalize four characters from the 1970 movie Kelly's Heroes called The Deal. In this set you get Pvt. Kelly (Clint Eastwood), Sgt. Oddball (Donald Sutherland (my favorite)), MSgt. Big Joe (Telly Savalas) and of course Col. Dankhopf (David Hurst).
This is made in 1/48 scale and may not fit into most game systems but they look pretty good and would make a nice display piece, maybe for a tournament team. I would love to see what John could do with this set, how about you?
Will you recruit Kelly's Heroes?
"I would love to see what John could do with this set, how about you?"
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Great set of figures from one of my favorite movies . All I need to add is a 1/48 scale Tiger on T34 wheels and tracks . Kit bash time !
Very awesome news! Everyone wants Oddball in there sherman. 😉
I’m in the middle of building an Open Fire starter for Flames of War and was thinking the same thing, but sadly, it’s the wrong scale 🙁
Don’t forget to “add this piece o’ pipe on the end so the Germans think like . . . maybe it’s a 90mm?”
Remember to stick a brass pipe over the main gun to make it look bigger!
Big tannoy horns as well….
Oh, crap, sir. You beat me to it. Sorry. @chillreaper had this joke first, everyone. 🙂
Do I win some sort of internet WWII award for that, Oriskany? 🙂
Or do I just get some positive waves?
The “Distinguished Humor Campaign Medal” – awarded for conspicuous and quick-delivered jokes in the face of internet buffoons who post the same joke without reading the rest of the thread first. 😀
Nice but a bit too big for my Bolt Action models scale.
Have a look at Artizan Design for the 28mm version of the 3 US minis
http://www.artizandesigns.com/prod.php?prod=1607
I took a look at the Artisan Design 28mm versions @aegolius. I loved the price but did not like the sculpting of the faces which were ish at best but missed the mark. I would rather go with the Oniria miniatures and I don’t care if they are not my usual 15mm
Oddball hates them negative waves man.
Those are rather nice.
Thx for the hint
This company is new for me
Indeed sad that its not in scale with most games. The models begs me to write a proper scenario for Bolt action.
Great movie, but not sure I need the mini’s. Besides, what German defense could stand up to Clint Eastwood?
See, now I gotta watch this movie for the (gimme a sec to check) . . . 1,818th time. I am trying to refrain from quoting the movie because if I do, this thread will soon be 100 pages long with a complete screenplay of the movie included. As much as I love the main cast of this movie, I think I have a soft spot for Crapgame the crooked supply NCO. I was in supply during my “time in uniform,” and although there certainly weren’t this outrageous, there was something of a “scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” economy… Read more »
1:48 means useable in DUST…
Don’t give me none of those negative waves, Moriarty
Good God, could you imagine the “Dust” version of Oddball?
I want speakers for very loud country music bolted to the sides of my Sturm-Koenig!
“It’s a mother beautiful walker, baby!”
That is an awesome idea. Someone who understands the system really well should definitely make up a few house rules to represent that.
Fastest walker in the theater… more like a sprinter 🙂
Walkers might have helped those guys. Would they have needed to worry so much about all those bridges if they were in walkers instead of Shermans?
Oddball: “Hey . . . I’m kinda hung up here, buddy. I need about sixty feet of bridge.”
Bellamy: “How the hell am I supposed to get sixty feet of bridge ten miles behind German lines? And besides, aren’t you in walkers? Walk across the damned river!”
It’s a beautiful walker Moriarty. Qoute: Oddball: This engine’s been modified by our mechanical genius here, Moriarty. Right? Moriarty: Whatever you say, babe. [giggles] Oddball: These engines are the fastest in any tanks in the European Theater of Operations, forwards or backwards. You see, man, we like to feel we can get out of trouble, quicker than we got into it. Kelly: [looking skeptical] Got any other secret weapons? Oddball: Well, yeah, man, you see, like, all the tanks we come up against are bigger and better than ours, so all we can hope to do is, like, scare ’em… Read more »
DUST! ORCISH! SOVIETS! These are just some words I like recently. 1:48 is roughly a plastic armyman, right? I got gangs of those these minis could mow down.
Eh . . . close, I guess? Most army men are about 2″ high.
72″ (six feet) divided by 48 (1/48) would be about an inch and a half?
The picture of oddball next to the ruler shows him about 37mm high, about 1.5 inches.
So if you have any of the slightly smaller army guys (I know they’re not terribly standardized).
Beautiful just beautiful…
Hmm were can you get some small speakers to fit to the Sherman?
You can always build in an mp3 player as well :-).
And a grip Big Joe seem to smiling too much – I am of to see if netflix have it …
Damn, what is wrong with Netflix in this country? 1 Clint Eastwood movie! And that Escape from Alcatraz not Kellys!
woof woof woof
“That’s my other dog imitation.” 😀
nice, love it, brilliant, more please.
Kelly’s Heroes is one of my favourite war movies. It is just a little bit cynical and anti-establishment, and (much like the Dirty Dozen) is an antidote to the overdose of non stop cinematic heroism that watching many other movies set in ther period can induce. And Oddball is, of course, spectacularly odd in the best way possible. i think it is perhaps Donald Sutherland’s best role.
Yup, but liked him almost as much as Hawkeye Pierce in the original ‘Mash’ movie 🙂 .
Wow, what a difference between the original MASH movie and the TV series. The humor in the movie was actually pretty dark, IIRC (hence “suicide is painless” lyric to the classic MASH theme music). In both roles, however, Sutherland played a quirky kind of optimist, though. A neat comparison I never considered.
Yup, totally different animal @oriskany . Loved the movie, but the TV series came across as perpetually whiny, and the characters quickly evolved into sanitized, unrealistic caricatures of their movie predecessors.
I did like the series, though hated watching it the US when I was there as it still had the dubbed laughter track