Toy Soldier Thoughts

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Death from Above

The German advance has been stalled as death continues to reign from above. A machine gun team tries to take out the defenders with little luck. Most of these figures are TSSD.

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

From all reports we have read looks like it was a fine show once again. Ron Barzso was there as was Tony of Armies in Plastic. Both debuted new items.

Replicants had two new Mounted figures for the English Civil War. Boo-Hoo another period I do not engage in. They do look very good.

More confused then ever

After reading that as a Baby Boomer I can no longer see too well (Truth in that), and that we are evidently dying off (sigh, more truth) thus the larger, smaller figure sets. Oh yes and Market is soft and more.

But here we see yet another company is doing 54mm Plastic figures. http://www.victrixlimited.com/ These are 2 sets of French Napoleonic to add to their single set of British.

So I guess production of 54mm plastic sets (16 to a box/bag) is going strong. Let's hope the sales are.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

More scale stuff

TSSD has confirmed that his new Mini-Sets will be made in resin. The material we are told is comparable to that used to make Replicants. So this is actually PLASTIC. The scale should match the sets they are intended to enhance. As you know Germans will be the first set. TSSD has the following on their site;

"WE DO NOT MAKE FIGURE SETS TO "MATCH IN SIZE / SCALE" TO FIGURES DESIGNED 55 YEARS AGO. ( MANY OF THOSE FIGURES ARE 40mm TO 70mm, AND EVERYWHERE IN-BETWEEN )" THE GROWING TREND IN THE HOBBY, FOR BOTH METAL AND PLASTIC, HAS BEEN "LARGER".

Hmm this confuses us as Barzso is using injection plastic for their new sets and they are 54mm, We do like the way that TSSD is up front about its' intentions and we like the majority of what they have produced.. We also like the fact that Paragon, CTS and Barzso are doing 54mm in plastic. Ain't we fickle??