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Re: WSS in 1/72
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 10:08 am
by Essex Boy
BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 9:41 am
There was a time when one's heart would leap like a salmon heading for the spawning grounds on hearing that someone was doing plastic WSS; then sink, as though plucked from said stream, just short of the finish line, by a hungry bear, on finding out that they were made by Strelets. Not any more - these are superb (not least because it means we can meet up with EB for a game!). The only problem is the glacial pace at which the other packs in the range will be released....
You've got that right, Brendan.
Hmmmm, a game? A novel idea, and a good one at that.
Re: WSS in 1/72
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 10:41 am
by FreddBloggs
Hmmmmm, hmmmmm wait and see the whole range then think about it.
Re: WSS in 1/72
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:30 am
by levied troop
WSS is great fun and very nice uniforms, I strongly encourage you to buy as much as you can.
Re: WSS in 1/72
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:39 am
by FreddBloggs
I do it in 28mm and 6mm already!
Re: WSS in 1/72
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:41 am
by Essex Boy
Re: WSS in 1/72
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:52 am
by Purple
I would buy these. What a turnaround, last time I saw some strelets figures they looked like a coach load of middle aged reenactors in a fun fair hall of mirrors.
How much are 1/72 plastic boxed sets these days? I’ve not bought one since before the millennium.
Re: WSS in 1/72
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 12:06 pm
by goat major
BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 9:56 am
It's almost like they've been listening to us wargamers, isn't it?
Not entirely otherwise they’d be in 28mm. Or 15mm. Or 10mm. Or 6mm.
Re: WSS in 1/72
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 1:33 pm
by FreddBloggs
Or 42mm...
Re: WSS in 1/72
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 2:58 pm
by tim.w
Purple wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:52 am
I would buy these. What a turnaround, last time I saw some strelets figures they looked like a coach load of middle aged reenactors in a fun fair hall of mirrors.
How much are 1/72 plastic boxed sets these days? I’ve not bought one since before the millennium.
About £11 from various ebay shops incl postage. There's 44 figures in this box. I liked their Boer War and Lawrence of Arabia ranges but resisted. I'd use Jacklex for 20mm Boer War now.
Re: WSS in 1/72
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 6:04 pm
by valleyboy
I was all always put off 1/72 plastics by the problems painting them - was it they needed to primed wiyh pva first?
Has all that changed now and can you just paint these like you would paint something plastic by the Perrys?
