I ordered some British Colonial troops by Perry Bros. from thewarstore.com. I ordered last Friday, in my mailbox today. I have been doing business with Neal longer than I can remember, and he has always been the best.
I ordered a box of plastics (36 per box) and a pack of six metal soldiers to bring the whole group up to 42 models. After assembling a few plastic soldiers and basing a few metal ones, I can safely say that they scale perfectly with each other, which is not always the case with Warlord or GW. As an added bonus, each command sprue has a tiny dog, which wins high cuteness points with my wife.
The box of plastics was supposed to have 36 soldiers, but instead only had 34; it appears that they included one too many 3-man command sprues (three of them) and one too few 5-man soldier sprues (five of them.) I am going to e-mail Perry about this to see if it can be resolved.
Does anyone know of a historic precedent for including a small dog with British infantry in either Afgahnistan or the Sudan? Thank you.