New Replicants

Replicants offering is mounted knights We will give more details as we get them.

Update 5/27/14

We have heard from Steve Weston, who has given us more information on the two new figures from Replicants. They are two mounted knights to go into Replicants Battle of Lewes series One knight is with club, the other is with lance. and shield  There are two different horses rearing and charging  These figures will be a nice additions to your collection.

Update 5/27/14 We now have a link to pictures of the new Replicants they are on the Collecting Toy Soldiers blog by our very good friend Brian Carrick. One thing I have corrected is the one pose is with club not sword. Brian states Peter Cole the owner and sculptor of Replicants has been working on a cartoon booklet and post cards in regards to Battle of Lewes for the Lewes castle museum The booklet and postcards depict scenes from the battle using Replicant and conversion of other makers. This is why Replicants has done only two new figures at this time.

Here is the link to see the figures close up We thank C S Ako for the information

http://toysoldiercollecting.blogspot.com/

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8 Responses to New Replicants

  1. Don Perkins says:

    I usually like Replicant figures. Because of their small production runs, the price per figure is high, but I like them so much I usually end of getting them. So I’m looking forward to these new knights. However, the quality of sculpting and scale on Replicant’s previous horses hasn’t been very good, especially when compared to the TSSD, IMEX, Italiari, or even CTS horses. TSSD’s cavalry horses set the standard, followed by Italiari and Imex, with CTS bringing up the rear in terms of horse sculpting. Replicant’s horses were far behind even CTS, and weren’t even in a correct scale to the riders (their horses were too small). So here’s hoping Replicant’s new knight horse figures are improved from what it’s previously done.

  2. Don Perkins says:

    Yes, sorry I missed the link to the photos. Unfortunately, now that I’ve seen the photos, I think the same shortcomings of previous Replicant horse figures are present in the new ones. As usual with Replicant horses, they seem too small in comparison with the riders. Although the rearing horse does have some style to it, its still not big enough in relation to the rider. And the white galloping horse is awkwardly posed. It needs a real base, not one leg attached to a clump, and needs to be sized bigger than the rider it carries.

    Replicant’s makes lots of well-designed, well-sculpted, useful figures. But Replicant’s horse designer doesn’t quite have his horse poses down. He needs to start by making a close examination of horse size to human size, and then increase the size of his horses, especially since he’s now doing meideval war chargers, which were even bigger horses than the average.

    • admin says:

      Don
      I have been told making a horse for plastic figures can be one of the hardest pieces to do. Peter who does the figures also does the horses.

  3. ERWIN says:

    I agree in part about the size of the horse. Still we can use them as Asian horses(not the Arabian horses) used in by European specially in the crusades when they run out of big race horses; also horses from the Baltic states ,Russia and Scandinavian often were smaller than regular horses..As well Chinese/Mongol and Kan region areas. The poses of both men and horses are great!!.And not necessary to repeat them as they represent particular action scene.

  4. Don Perkins says:

    I think I agree with Erwin. The size of the horses would be appropriate for Mongol ponies racing in hordes across Asian steppes. But unfortunately don’t work when paired up with European riders.

    I have to emphasize again: I like Replicants. I have both their Harpers Ferry playset, as well as their English Civil War Royal Oak playset. But Peter Coles horse for the Ironsides Cromwellian trooper suffers from the same fate as these new horses: too small and hence out of scale with the intended rider.

  5. Maynard Withrow says:

    Have You thought about any Boer Commandos?

  6. Steve Zobel says:

    Regarding the size of Replicants horses.
    If I recall correctly, the Travin molder only has a shot size of 20 grams. Your average 1/32 scale horse requires more than that, plus the weight of the sprue. I suspect Peter doesn’t put bases on his horses because of the increase in weight. Although having a core between the horse’s legs does allow for more accurate posing of the horse.
    As for the sometimes blobby look of the figures in certain details, Peter is using a manual injection molder as opposed to a pnuematic one. The manual molder just doesn’t give as much pressure, and when you’re the bloke pulling the lever down each time, it gets tiring, so injection pressures are variable.

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