It has been a while since we updated our news section but we have not been idle in the meantime.
Firstly some new releases:
- Spanish - At last our Spanish Hussars are now in production after almost a year of work. The figures are we believe some of our sculptor’s finest, which after many trials and challenges on the casting and moulding side are now ready to go into full production, complete with new horses.
- Italian and Neapolitan - Also now available are Italian and Neapolitan Mounted Chasseurs complete with elite company, developed from our existing ranges. We intend to expand this range quite significantly.
- Austrian and Russian Artillery Crew - We are pleased to bring out our new Austrian Foot and Russian Foot and Horse artillery crew, to add to an already extensive list of Russian figures (including artillery pieces), and a growing list of Austrian figures.
- Austrian Infantry - We have added an infantryman in greatcoat, Grenz and advancing landwehr figures as step one in an expansion of this range.
- Swedish Artillery Horse and Limber Team - A completely new challenge for us was to create a 6 horse artillery limber team for the uniquely styled limber for our Swedish range, including troopers and additional horse artillerymen.
Secondly old stuff:
After much thought and careful consideration we have decided to take some radical steps with respect to our existing ranges to ensure that we can continue to provide a good product that our existing and importantly future customers continue to select amongst the growing array of product out there.
Some of our production moulds are too many years old and some of our figures need reworking, but as our business is a part time hobby business, we know that we cannot invest the amount of time and money to replace all the moulds etc that we should, in a way that the larger competitors could for whom their business is a full time occupation.
In practice this means that we therefore have to focus upon providing figures that both are a compliment to our competitors, which are nevertheless somehow exclusive yet at good prices and good quality and to balance this with being able to satisfy requests for legacy stock.
We are therefore going to concentrate our efforts on 28mm Napoleonic and Seven Years War, including cutting out some of these figures from our ranges and replacing them with new.