"Battlefront's plastic infantry" Topic

On Sunday,(3-30-15) while at my local hobby shop I got to see the New Plastic Panzer Grenadiers from Battlefront Miniatures and I must say I was impressed. I loved that they were all one piece figs. (except for the mortars). I was wondering does Battlefront have any plans to sell just the plastic figs and not with half-tracked carriers? (I own plenty of those) These figs look way better than the lead ones that they have put out for years. I was not a big fan of the Plastic Soldier Company multi-part plastic infantry and was hoping to see what Battlefront would do with plastic infantry. As yet I have not seen the US Armored Infantry figs or I had heard that there were some US Airborne troops in plastic from them.

I posted this before, but here are some pics of the plastic U.S. armored infantry, paratroops and M3 Half-tracks by Bttlefront. All plastic. I am quite fond of them.

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The new 15mm figures from PSC are one piece, apart from a prone MG gunner I think…

Here are the new PSC Grenadiers…

Oh nice. I always felt the PSC were a bit stiff/static for me. How well do the new ones match up with the BF plastics?

Piers- you have heard it many times but Gosh Dern it those are tops. you made me swear. I struggle with Camo on 28mm and yet you make it look this awesome in 15mm??

Kill me know. I cheat by using Camo decals in 1/48 to get my Camo. issue is keeping it consistent when using the same type of camo pattern. the decals keep it in line for me. the deals can be a little tricky but cut to fit and you are in business.

Monger that is very impressive and well done. Thank you both for sharing and OP for asking so we got to see these models. not my scale but I take inspiration from where ever I can get it.

Danke

monger, Does the US Half tracks come with a 81mm mortar option?

@ Green beanie:
I am not sure. Those half-tracks were given to me by my friend already assembled. I just did the painting an such. I'll ask around and see.

Piers
as you have a connection with PSC could you please tell them there are still people willing to accept the challenge of a 50 multipart figures in 1:72. I like PSC a lot but nowadays they seem to care only for 15mm figures. I hope there is still a market for 1:72 products

Ha ha. It's funny to hear 20mm guys begging and whining for miniatures. I thought only 15mm gamers did that. How does that shoe fit?

Oh, there is certainly still a vibrant market for 20mm-- companies like PSC just release the 15mm stuff first because it probably sells more. I know Will at PSC plays only in 20mm so I would not be worried in the least that he will continue to produce excellent 1/72 models for the foreseeable future.

I received my Hit the Beach box today. Overall quite impressed save for one thing. I'm not entirely sure whether the infantry in it are made from the (so called) flexible plastic BF are now using, if they are it's certainly not very flexible! The plastic is grey and seems very brittle, similar to Games Workshop in hardness, and there's a few infantry figures (oddly Germans and US are on the same sprues) with white stress lines across the barrels of weapons and a few that have just broken off in transit. Castings looks good but for this box at least, flexible the plastic most certainly is not.

Think I'll probably order a platoon or two of FiB figures for each side and sub those in for the breakages. Be interesting to see what the infantry is like in the other two boxes I have on order (US and German) and whether it's as 'flexible' as Hit the Beach. Not much point using plastic infantry if the weapons are going to snap at the drop of a hat.

I find it amusing that Battlefront has re-invented the Airfix figures and ROCO Minitanks of my youth.

Confirmed that HTB contains the older hard plastic sprues from the Open Fire set, hence the fragility. Not too problematic with the Germans if you only have a few breakages as there are enough spares. If you get breakages with the US Paras your'e screwed, no extra figures to use as spares, not one!

I've seen several references now to BF moving away from the flexible plastic figures. From what I've seen of some with details that look like they melted together it won't be a bad thing.

I will miss the metal figures.