Steve Weston has posted in the Treefrog forum some new figures coming out. First up is Call to Arms doing Normans. According to Steve, the figures were suppose to be out last year, but now have been release. Also Armies in Plastic will be doing more elephants will loads. This time they will have five different loads, you can pick from water barrel, howitzer, mortar and two different cannons These will not be in limited in number made as before.
Lastly new Replicants figures will be out on May 24th for the Plastic Warrior show. As to what they will be you will have to wait. Steve will have pictures up in the next few days on his web site. As soon as they are posted we will let you know.
Also word has it that Expeditionary Force is coming out with more Persian archers, infantry and cavalry.
Update the figures from Call to Arms are Norman Infantry. As usual with Call to Arms you will get 16 figures in 4 poses. The figures will have separate shields you will have to glue on. All four poses are with sword and shield and have chain mail and helmets, you can see the figures at the link below
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Sorry for the confusion I must have had Vikings on my mine.
Would have rather seen CTA do a 1/32 of their 1970’s British Infantry.
Don’t worry about the mix-up,Normans are the Great Grand kids of Vikings eh,LOL.
Got my order into Yuri yesterday. I hope I am not having to pay off the Russian debt with his prices! But I ordered a lot.
Just to satisfy my curiosity why are you ordering CTA sets all the way from Russia?
Hopefully they follow this up with a set of Saxons. With Conte, Replicants and now ACTA we have a decent Battle of Hastings.
My opinion!!
Not very impress about these Normans warriors as they do not carry spear!!!; more suitable for Robin Hood type scene than any battle like Hasting..Or will need some adaptation..Also 4 poses are a very poor variety choice set for this type of collection/sets.
And once again with today technology in molding making the second dimension type pose figure should be avoided. I noticed that all have the shield close to the body instead of a defending forward hand shield positioned!!!..No very good for battle front formation either then..
Yes CTA dosn’t impress me too much with their choices of poses,you only get 4 poses to a set for the price they charge so would be nice to get more “action” poses instead of loading musket poses,etc.
Brian
I am unexcited on the poses too. I will wait until I find them in a junk box.
Erwin
I agree with your thoughts. It would be interesting to hear Doug’s comments
It seems when I go to the link that we’re really only seeing front and back views of 2 of the poses, rather than all 4. Yes, they do appear to be 2-dimensional, and not very full-bodied. On the other hand, the Call To Arms box art is usually pretty good. But the watery gray color would have been considerably improved if the figures had been changed to a metallic silver. But good choice of colors has never been CTA’s strong suit. Remember, CTA is the company that runs its 24th Foot and most of its Napoleonics and Revolutionary War in tan. And for CTA’s otherwise excellent English Civil War figures, ran the opposing Royalist vs. Parliamentary forces in the very same colors as each other, with no differentiation in colors for the different sides whatsoever.
Despite this, I’ll pick up a box (4 poses, 16 figures), just as soon as it appears on the shelves of Rick Berry’s Michigan Toy Soldier Shop. These figures wouldn’t add too much to a Battle of Hastings set up. They’re clearly substandard to Conte’s Norman vs. Saxon’s in the Warlord playset. But these CTA figures can probably be integrated easily into a Robin Hood diorama, as noted by Erwin Sell. But I really can’t see buying more than a single box. These figures really are somewhat mediocre. And I really wish I could get a view of the other 2 poses.
Don
Doug from CTA has some ideas on making figures you can not change him One is that he will do only four different poses in a box. He claimed that he lost money when he did more Second one is the color gray, Doug feels that the people will buy them and paint them. People have tried to tell him that most Americans do not paint and want their figures in a color that represent the figure, such as red for redcoats. Frankly I was surprised to see the set.
I stand corrected. Upon closer inspection of the link, I see (when I expand the photo), that all 4 poses, front & back, are displayed. They really are on the flat side, even when the shields are attached. They remind me of the Classic Toy Soldier (CTS) Romans and Cathaginians, when they came out many years back — completely 2-dimensional semi-flats. But CTS gave us a multiplicity of good colors.