New britains deetail sets?? (1 Viewer)

9thHussar

9thHussar

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Hi
I remember a few years ago Britains were mooting the possibility of some new sets of Deetail figures with better scenic bases etc...
Has this idea been shelved due to the economic situation or a lack of interest?

Any thoughts/info??

9th
 
I read something about a year ago that they were going to do some more things, but haven't heard another word. Hopefully there will be some info at OTSN, but I sort of doubt it will be new stuff.
 
Here it is short and sweet: Re ANY new plastics from Britains - you can expect bugger all!
As long as the cash rolls in from their metal ranges they don't give a stuff about the Deetail range.
 
Hi

anyone out there done some Deetail conversions - the possibilities are endless
I will post some of mine when I have photos

Regards
9th
 
Hi
Yes I have some Original Deetail, which have been modified to carry their National Flags. I quit like these, and think they look good inbetween the others.
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At the last PLASTIC WARRIOR show in London I asked one of the PW editors about Britains plastics. He told me he went to the British Toy and Hobby Trade Show at the Excel Centre where WBritains had a stand.
He mentioned about the plastic ranges and the sales rep said to him that 'That just the cheap stuff for the kids'.
I feel that this sums up the companies attitude in general

"He who does not fight and runs away will live to run away another day"
Bob Hope
 
timpoisverylicky said:
At the last PLASTIC WARRIOR show in London I asked one of the PW editors about Britains plastics. He told me he went to the British Toy and Hobby Trade Show at the Excel Centre where WBritains had a stand.
He mentioned about the plastic ranges and the sales rep said to him that 'That just the cheap stuff for the kids'.
I feel that this sums up the companies attitude in general

"He who does not fight and runs away will live to run away another day"
Bob Hope
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Well Marx playsets used to be cheap stuff for kids also.
 
Hi
maybe its just as well - if they realise how popular these sets are then maybe they will charge double the price!
I have had to start converting mine for some variety. I have converted several ACW Infantry into British soldiers in the Indian Miutiny 1857.
Regards
9th
 
9thHussar said:
Hi

anyone out there done some Deetail conversions - the possibilities are endless
I will post some of mine when I have photos

Regards
9th
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Sound good, has you done any WW2 conversions?, would like to see what is possible.
Regards PanzerIII
 
9thHussar
Your conversions looks good. If I had more time, I would get started and doing some, but will have to wait for years to come I am affraid.
 
Jay said:
Well Marx playsets used to be cheap stuff for kids also.
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The point that I was trying to make is that the current owners of Britains have bought into the nonsense that the 'Blazers and slacks' brigade of metal collectors spout.
The sales rep seemed to feel contempt for the plastic range. The usual attitude of plastics are for kids - adult collectors go for metal .
I think this is in part a reaction against people outside the hobby who look at it as playing with toy soldiers. If you have figures that are unsuitable (in fact dangerous) for a child to play with then you cannot be a big kid but a mature collector.
Marx. Britains, Crescent were cheap toy for kids but the people who set up these companies actually LIKED toys, or like Roy Selwyn Smith, Ally Gee and Norman Tooth liked figures and saw plastic as an exciting new material with unlimited possibilities....
The new Britains company sees Britains 40 year plastic production as a strange abberation until they got back to metal (the 'real' thing)
You really don't get that feeling in the toy trade any more I think.
Final point in the U.K up to the mid 80s you could get toy soldiers everywhere, not just toy shops but news agents, chemists, etc.
Now you don't see Britains plastics anywhere. Toyway has now gone out of business.
If kids can't find them they wont play with them and in 20 years time what adult collectors there will be shall probably be hunting down Papo and Schielch rather than Britains and Airfix.
'Said the General of the Army " I think war is barmy"
So he threw away his gun
Now he's having much more fun
Spike Milligan
 
hi - surprised to hear about Toyway - they championed the last available amounts of timpo swoppits and the action pack unpainted figures.

They should have kept issuing the swoppit AWI figures reissued about 10 years or so ago and brought out others for the main timpo collecting market in Germany.

Recent unpainted plastics were too bendy. The earlier made in England reissues before production moved to China were a better firmer plastic

9th
 
PanzerIII said:
Hi
Yes I have some Original Deetail, which have been modified to carry their National Flags. I quit like these, and think they look good inbetween the others.
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Like Marcel Proust I can feel a huge childhood flashback comming on.
It is 1975.
Abba is playing on the radio.
I am wearing short pants and long socks.
I am in a sandpit.
Throwing marbles at plastic Britain's figures.
Thanks for posting those great figures.
 
That company in Argentina that bought some of the Deetail moulds seems to be releasing innovative and new versions of the old classic Deetail stuff.
I do agree about getting little boys playing with toy soldiers.
No-one is going to chuck marblesin the sand pit at a Durbar elephant or 2500 USD Lancaster bomber any time soon.
 
9thHussar said:
hi - surprised to hear about Toyway - they championed the last available amounts of timpo swoppits and the action pack unpainted figures.

That's why to should have kept your subscription to PLASTIC WARRIOR - they broke this news about four months ago!
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Hi

I stopped receiving PW years ago, but thanks for the info about Toyway.

Regards
9th
 
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