Come on Armies In Plastic...Really? (1 Viewer)

[Scott]

After retreading WWI Germans as 1870 Prussians, AIP is retreading WWI Russians as Crimean War Russians.


http://www.armiesinplastic.com/newsets.html

 

[Ragnar]

Yes its false advertising.
Someone new to the hobby might walk into a hobby shop and stumble onto a box of Crimean War Russians {when infact they are WW1 Russians }.
CTS are just as bad making Red color mexicans does not make them British nore does making them in white turn them into Austrians :rolleyes2:

 

[Scott]

Now I do use AIP's WWI Germans in blue for 1870 Prussians as there are NO plastic 1870 Prussians available in large numbers. (I think there is a plastic kit of a few Prussians)
On my table, lots of figures "play" other armies with some conversion or color choice. The main difference is the WWI cloth helmet cover on the German figures. There are lots of images of Crimean Russians, summer and winter, and these WW I Russians don't fit them.

Ending by saying something nice about AIP is that they reissued the WW I US troops in a stiffer plastic.

 

[gk5717]

Yes its false advertising.
Someone new to the hobby might walk into a hobby shop and stumble onto a box of Crimean War Russians {when infact they are WW1 Russians }.
CTS are just as bad making Red color mexicans does not make them British nore does making them in white turn them into Austrians :rolleyes2:

I agree, maybe sentence AIP to 20 years of hard labor!
Gary

 

[Ragnar]

I agree, maybe sentence AIP to 20 years of hard labor!
Gary

Nah we will let them of with a warning this time ^&grin.....I do like there stuff.

 

[9thHussar]

Hi - maybe they could do the new Zulus in boxes as Swazis, Basutos or Matabeles??
9th

 

[Wolfie65]

While I am not in favor of a company actually calling Crimean War Russians WW I Russians - or vice versa - I do realize that neither one of those are very popular subjects among wargamers and collectors (compared to, say, Napoleonics, Ancients, WW II, etc.), so the likelihood of finding figures made specifically for these conflicts is kind of low.
Close enough for government work......

 

[Scott]

There's a point, but AIP did do a series of Crimean War Light Brigade Cavalry units. Heck I use them for Napoleonic cavalry with AIP's Napoleonic series. AIP has also created units with no "enemy" troops to face them such as (repeating myself) 1898 Spanish or 1905 Japanese.

AIP's strengths are that some units such as the Indian Infantry and cavalry have uses in South Africa, India, China, and WW I.

 

[modwalls]

I was never to kean on AIP, but their most recent stuff, FIW, and the new Modern Soldiers has changed my mind. At least their prices have always been reasonable, but they do color the same figs and call them different armies. But most people who have been around this hobby long enough, know this.