New William Britains

crossroads · Post by **crossroads** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:30 pm

Hello,

I was wondering how much interest there was in the metal toy soldier companys (William Britain, Conte, K&C etc). I like the FOV vehicles but sometimes the figures don't seem up to par.

Britains has some new WWII figures out that are much better than some of the previous releases when they were under RC2/ERTL.

They also have a large number of releases in the Revolutionary time frame as well. I'm not sure how much interest there is in that time period though.

Ronnie
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ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:22 am

Conte has a number of gorgeous and unique Revolutionary War figures: http://www.conteco.com/TheStore/Rangers ... nsHome.htm

DomiUK · Post by **DomiUK** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:16 pm

for me the latest w britains stuff is indeed much better than it was and some of the pieces are now close to contes standard.

sadly i stopped collecting them at about 50 1/32 vehicles , conte playsets etc etc i simply have no room for them and so it 1/72 all the way for me.

luftpanzer · Post by **luftpanzer** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:32 pm

I like the new Britains WW2 figures. Waiting for their kettenkrad and 2 falschimjagers

dfoos · Post by **dfoos** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:18 pm

The Britains stuff is beautiful and definitely way above FOV in detail and quality, but you do pay the price for the difference. I wish I could afford some.

luftpanzer · Post by **luftpanzer** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 3:39 pm

Still a few bucks cheaper than King and Country

Panzer_M · Post by **Panzer_M** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:33 am

I saw K@C has a Flakpanzer 38(t) coming out in 1/32....I almost went for the Grille 15cm SPG...and and They have a Hummel in 1/32 coming! But the price.....Oh the price and they are real static models. not much for moving parts...unlike FoV which is why I love them.

that and the Hetzer and a few other AFVs have me looking.

Figures are so-so. Too Toy like IMO, Dragon's 1/35 Figures Can.dos and the Gen2 are still the best of the best.

dfoos · Post by **dfoos** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:41 am

Takara also makes some really nice 1/35 guys very similar to Dragons 1/35. They are harder plastic so little pointies can snap off easier (unlike dragon, which has a little bit of play) but they are nice and I got an entire squad of germans and squad of US for $4.00 per fig. they came in little boxes similar to cando and other small japanese type toys except you could tell from the box which figure you were getting. No blind box.

dfoos · Post by **dfoos** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 3:04 am

Whoops, I mean Tamya, not Takara, it is their masterwork finished model series. Nice stuff. They fit in nicely with my 1/32nd stuff.