June Releases

[slinky]

Japs look great, are there more than one pose per pack?

[Leon]

Japs look great, are there more than one pose per pack?

Just the one pose, we've split them up into the individual poses for ease of ordering.

[ziparoo]

I hate to be the one that bites the hand that feeds me quality miniatures here, but.... What pray tell, is the noticeable difference between WW1 British, WW2 BEF and the current range of WW2 British riflemen? It seems to me that the current range of 'late war' WW2 British riflemen - without helmet nets - could be used for WW2 BEF?

If it is just a case of Pendraken being a British company and making whatever the hell suits their sense of patriotism, that is fine, I salute you. However, what about all that other stuff in the request list that we keep harping on about?

Am I being unreasonable? Feel free to tell me to mind my own business and stop drinking too much coffee.

[kustenjaeger]

Greetings

I hate to be the one that bites the hand that feeds me quality miniatures here, but.... What pray tell, is the noticeable difference between WW1 British, WW2 BEF and the current range of WW2 British riflemen? It seems to me that the current range of 'late war' WW2 British riflemen - without helmet nets - could be used for WW2 BEF?

If it is just a case of Pendraken being a British company and making whatever the hell suits their sense of patriotism, that is fine, I salute you. However, what about all that other stuff in the request list that we keep harping on about?

Am I being unreasonable? Feel free to tell me to mind my own business and stop drinking too much coffee.

Without having seen pictures of said miniatures the usual differences would be:

(a) WWI infantry wearing tunics as opposed to battledress and puttees as opposed to gaiters, and '08 as opposed to '37 equipment.  Not very similar really to WW2.
(b) WW2 BEF infantry could have hessian covers on the helmet (not seen later) and, more importantly would have a chest respirator case.
(c) WW2 late war infantry more likely to have netting/scrim  etc on helmets and have No.4 rather than SMLE Mk III rifles

Note that one would expect Bren gunners as well (though if prone the respirator will be less evident) and Thompson SMGs with drum magazines.

Pendraken are doing early war so it makes sense to do some early war British riflemen.  I also assume that Pendraken believe that they'll sell :-).  I'd note that at least one other 10mm manufacturer sells BEF as well as later war infantry as do most/many 15mm manufacturers.  In some ways you could say that using late war British for early war is like using US infantry for USMC.

Prioritisation is always difficult.  Bear in mind that the WW2 range is also seeing Jaoanese and (shortly) USMC being released. 

Regards

Edward

[Leon]

Thanks for listing the differences Edward.

The Early British were requested by many customers over the years and were started by the designer long before we launched the Forum.  The process from request to release can take months, and we are working through some of people's requests at the moment.  Don't forget that we can't possibly produce every request that we get in, we have to look at the most popular and work them around what we've already got going on, so something like the Japs/USMC fitted in nicely.

It might not look like it from some people's perspective, but we are taking a huge amount of this feedback on board, and really starting to schedule our releases around what you want.  It'll take a while for this to become more obvious, because we've got a lot of projects (League of Augsburg, Shleswig Holstein, SCW, etc.) that need to be finished before we have time to really concentrate on making a dent in the requests.  But we are doing our best to fit some things in as we go along.

[17-21l]

They are all nice - although not my bag baby ( yet!!!!- coz you know what were like) but I am sooo happy you guys are knocking out so many codes each month - I simply love you all
Thanks
(PS when are you starting the Napo........ yea ok Ill shut up)

[Leon]

They are all nice - although not my bag baby ( yet!!!!- coz you know what were like) but I am sooo happy you guys are knocking out so many codes each month - I simply love you all
Thanks
(PS when are you starting the Napo........ yea ok Ill shut up)

Thanks! 

I tell you what, if people are nice to me, I might put up some pictures of the first set of masters we'll get at the end of the month...

[Dunnadd]

I really like it that you're putting out lots of new fantasy figures. Could you put some pictures up though, along with something to show their size? Your fantasy figures vary a lot in both style and size.  I really like a lot of them - others i'm not so keen on the style of, or they're more 15mm than 10mm scale.

[Leon]

I'll try and get some pics up as soon as possible, we've hit a couple of shows again so everything kinda slows down for those!

[Megamatman]

I'll try and get some pics up as soon as possible, we've hit a couple of shows again so everything kinda slows down for those!

I think Jenna has a big batch of photos ready that we'll be uploading very soon.

[FierceKitty]

I take it this will mean we'll be getting the Aztecs in July?

[Leon]

I take it this will mean we'll be getting the Aztecs in July?

Yep, July 2012...!

[count_zero99uk]

You should never give a date

[Leon]

You should never give a date

It's OK, mankind will have been wiped out by then by a giant meteor, and the hedgehogs, who were hibernating underground at the time, will have taken over...

[count_zero99uk]

And they will want to do 10mm Aztecs.