"Is HaT called hat?" Topic

Also anyone know much about them? Their website is not the best when it comes to ordering. I know I can email them an order. Seems like my 1/72 HaT models are a bit larger than most of my other 1/72 models from other makers.

there are some sellers around amazon and ebay I have a bunch of there stuff. Check out Plastic soldier review for each set.

The company name "HäT Industrie" looks like German, so technically it should be pronounced somewhere in between "hate" and "het", but the company is in Washington (state) and everyone I talk to just pronounces it "hat". <shrug> Dunno.

I've never tried to order direct from HäT. I get everything from secondary suppliers like Roll Models and Michigan Toy Soldier Company.

I highly recommend spending time on plasticsoldierreview.com looking at reviews and pictures of HäT miniatures before buying them.

Side note: I've only seen a few HäT 1/32 scale figures, but they looked identical to the 1/72 scale figures I'm familiar with.

- Ix

They are a tad bit larger but not so much that they won't blend in with other 1/72nd plastics. The material is softer or more rubbery. But I think the sculpts and casting quality are better than most of the others I've looked at recently. I've been mostly looking at the 19th century figures.

I used hundreds of their 1/32 figures for a Salute game of Trebbia. About 600 of the s, big range, Romans, Latin Allies, Celtibrigians, Carthagians, Alsortsa Cavalry, nice figures, painted up well, the plastic wasn't too rubbery, had no painting problems.

John

It is pronounced Hate.

There seems to be a strange lack of information about them! For some reason, despite the Germanic 'a', I always thought they were French?

I've dealt directly with them in the USA from here in the UK. The first time was for loose sprues of 28mm El Cid figures and the second for boxes of Napoleonic Swedish. Both occasions were very good experiences indeed, cost wise little difference and an amazingly short delivery time considering the distance the things came.

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Definitely check out PSR. Hat 1/72 figures can vary in quality and material used. I'm working on some of their latest Napoleonic offerings which are made of the soft spongy plastic. The ancients I've ordered are not. Never have tried to order directly from them.

I have several sets of their 1/32 soft-plastic American Civil War zoauves. They paint up nicely, but I have experienced some "flakage" on a few of the advancing figures' bayonet tips.

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I ordered mine from The Michigan Toy Soldier Company.

Well, I always say "hat", and I get the figures from the likes of Hannants and Harfield.

Basically they sell their stuff through model shops.

email them. H is a great guy and will respond to your email directly.

I have bought and used 'fahsands of them over the years. They have good and excellent figures, and some slightly less so. Size wise, they generally fit 1/72. Airifx are 1/76 in most cses, Matchbox slightly smaller still. Revell tend to be bigger (1/70?)

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And I refer to them as Hat in the English pronunciation way

I always call them hat.

I have quite a few HaT 1/72 plastics and they mix well with most other 1/72 plastic soldiers (Revell, Italeri, Esci, Zvezda, Pegasus, etc). I definitely wouldn't consider them "larger" by any means. I'm a big fan of HaT.

23mm to 24mm figures are what HaT produces. They have not made any sets too giant. As said, they do mix well with other companies.

There's a chapeau in their logo, so I'd go with "hat", rhyming with "cat".

Not all double dots over letters relate to German language so the pronunciation may be different than expected in German so just plain hat, like the headgear, is just as likely to be correct as something else.

Don't know if other languages refer to it as an umlaut like German.

This is old hat.

Not all double dots over letters relate to German language so the pronunciation may be different than expected in German so just plain hat, like the headgear,

My guess is that it is the German umlaut. From what I remember from German class, without the umlaut, you would pronounce it as "hot". The 'a' has something closer to a short 'o' sound. The umlaut makes it sound more like an English short 'a' sound. Just a simple marketing trick I think. Hat (as pronounced in English) is likely correct as that is how virtually every person who collects or games with plastic pronounces it. Also, as pointed out by Rubber Suit Theatre, there is a hat hanging over the 'T'. I never noticed it before! LOL That kind of gives an important clue as to the pronunciation don't you think?

The umlaut makes it sound more like an English short 'a' sound.

The umlaut (in German) makes it a "Long a" which was originally written as "ae".
The two dots denote (in German) an unrounded vowel (similar is the e in gender) in this case "ae" which is then writen as ä and would Sound similar to the a in hay.

I pronounce it Hat anyways.

I suspect that the Umlaut/trema in HäT is as phonetically significant as those in Häagen-Dasz and Motörhead…
(Incidentally, the spelling didn't always protect their website from being spammed occasionally by sellers of [headgear-type] hats, before they added a password.)

Not all double dots over letters relate to German language so the pronunciation […]

Umlauts are also used in other languages (esp. Swedish and Norwegian), but the whole name "HäT Industrie" is very German-themed in a not-quite-Germanic way, sort of like the way Arnold Schwazeneggar doesn't quite seem like an American undercover agent.

I'm guessing the owner is either an American who had no idea his company name could correctly be pronounced "hate", or it's a erudite pun that he knew most Americans would never get. Umlauts have been used in America as some kind of silly flourish at least since the 80s. I'm pretty sure nobody in the band Mötley Crüe knew a single word of German…

- Ix

The umlaut (in German) makes it a "Long a" which was originally written as "ae".

Shows you what I remember. So it really should be "hate".

Shows you what I remember. So it really should be "hate". grin

I speak the language every day and often still Forget when to use the Long vowels.

sort of like the way Arnold Schwazeneggar doesn't quite seem like an American undercover Agent

Anyone have a guess why they stopped posting pics on their Everything Toy Soldier section?

Anyone have a guess why they stopped posting pics on their Everything Toy Soldier section?

They still post infrequently. the web/forum admin was a gent and then it was taken over by Mrs Jones. Finally it was taken over by Hatblogger. In each iteration, the attentiveness went downhill. I've also noticed the rate of release has gone from 1 per quarter to 1 per half year.

Q: Is there a cat in that hat?