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[Angusprune]

Personally I think part of the problem of low sales and dropping interest were the introduction of minor German allies - It's okay for convertors but for collectors who just want to use ready made figures the choice becomes limited.
I think Hat should have brought out British Grenadier and Flank and line figures, as well as Highlanders and Highland Light Infantry - then Austrians rather than Bavarians, et al
Apart from Airfix reissues there's no decent Brits other than Rifle Brigade available (Italeri and AIP)

 

[Marxmaniac]

I think HaT 1/32 Napoleonic figures and the new 7 years war figures (great AWI Hessians) are great. I have all of them. I agree the Russians and maybe the Landwehr were not as good as the earlier sets. All of my Landwehr figures have mold smearing on the front of the figures. I made them aware and HaT is looking into it.

I would love to see HaT get into 1/32 WWI figures. I would love to have a decent WWI playset with trenches, and Germans, French, British, Americans, Russians, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian sets, both mounted and foot and artillery along with Weston WWI tanks. Their 1/72 WWI sets look great. This is one historical period I have been holding out for for some time. No one has come forward with a decent variety of figures in plastic for this genre. AIP are too stiff in pose, lack scaling balance, and detail. I think they look like the old metal toy soldiers done in plastic. If they would go the sculpting route of their recent Rogers Rangers/French/Indians it would be a step in the right direction. Emhar had four decent sets but disappeared. Waterloo 1815 made some nice WWI Italians, but whom would they fight?

I don't understand why internationally WWI plastics would not go over well as a theme. Napoleonics do well and that is not a US historical war. Can someone explain why this is so?

I also would like to see some 1/32 WWII Finns and Hungarians in plastic too, by anyone.

I have always wished all plastic manufacturers would officially combine resources and share production to produce historical figures. I.E. one do Germans, one do Americans, or one do artillery and one do cavalry. Also, do poles to generate data to support making figures, do preorders, and then go to production when enough preorders are collected, kinda like multiman publishing and wargames.


But who handed me the mike.........................

 

[Scott]

It's surprising to me that there are numberous small WW I reenacting groups in Europe. The most colorful are in Eastern Europe and Russia and tend to be early war with lots of color and ethnic details to their uniforms. In plastic the western front could have more colorful units early in the war like the cavalry and infantry before the helmet was issued. I agree this your statement about AIP WW I figures but I do have a good number of 1918 Germans and US infantry. They have conversion possibilities.

 

[Angusprune]

Trying to get plastic manufacturers to work together and compliment each others ranges is like herding cats....
(Conte's 7 foot tall Mexican Infantry)

 

[Ragnar]

WW1 would be good fit for Hat...I would buy them as long as they were half decent sculps!
Starting with French,British and Germans would be the way to go.

Napoleonic Russians did buy a box and at first i thought were ok :rolleyes2:
But they do have that cheap Hong Kong knock off look about them!

 

[Scott]

Trying to get plastic manufacturers to work together and compliment each others ranges is like herding cats....
(Conte's 7 foot tall Mexican Infantry)

Careful...someone may be reading this. (Big Winkie!)

 

[Scott]

Maybe I should hang onto my AIP Russians and those now unobtainable "March of the Wooden Soldiers" Russians (Austerlitz era I think) that came from Russia a few years ago. I have about 40 or more of them.