[COMMERCIAL] Empress Miniatures Cold War Range. T64 RELEASED.

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

We have just re released the MTLB Soviet armoured vehicle.

28MM 1/48 scale. Fantastic for our impending Soviet Cold War range, or its sister range at Underfire Miniatures or to compliment our existing ultra moderns range.

Used by a large number of countries and still in service with many.

https://www.empressminiatures.com/vehicles-41-c.asp

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

We have re released the FV432, 1/48 scale and perfect for our BAOR range of figures.

The FV432 is the armoured personnel carrier variant in the British Army's FV430 series of armoured fighting vehicles. Since its introduction in the 1960s, it has been the most common variant, being used for transporting infantry on the battlefield. In the 1980s, almost 2,500 vehicles were in use, with around 500 now remaining in operation - mostly in supporting arms rather than front-line infantry service.

[carlos marighela]

Good man, that’s what I wanted! Now kindly get cracking on a Peak Turret. Otherwise I’ll only buy two instead of four. 

[carlos marighela]

Damn it! I just remembered I’ll want one with a Fox turret for my Berlin Brigade. Make that five. 

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

Excellent. I will plan my retirement 

[carlos marighela]

Hmm, must have misread the price tag. £260,000 each?

Will there be crew and GPMGs coming? I assume there will. Might be worth looking at the Wombat conversion, if the rear hatch is openable and has a void of sufficient volume.

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

Yeah there will be one in the crew pack being moulded.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Are the hatches etc going to be resin or metal (my HLBSCo Spartan has resin hatches but your release photograph of the Spartan had metal hatches)?

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

All the smaller parts such as hatches are now in metal.

[carlos marighela]

Yeah there will be one in the crew pack being moulded.

I take it that’s another crew pack not the ones previewed earlier? After gunners in tin hats.

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

With the crew going into moulds now.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

All the smaller parts such as hatches are now in metal.

Excellent.

Might add one if there is room between the Land Rovers...

[carlos marighela]

Excellent. I will plan my retirement 

Sorry, could only come up with a hundred quid order this time around but hopefully that tides you over until the weekend.  Some more FV432 variants could easily see that double or more.

[Wyrmalla]

With these re-releases I take it there's no plan to sort out inaccuracies with those old HLBS models? I've mentioned it here before, but some of them are pretty major - from certain angles being completely wrong, to major details that are missing entirely. Which to an extent is par for the course with wargaming models, however the faults with that former HLBS stuff are more what you'd expect with a model at 15mm scale rather than 1/48th.

There's likely no market for some sort of "upgrade" kit to resolve these faults - nor would most modellers be willing to take a saw to some of the worse areas which need replacing entirely - so its a shame to not see these faults resolved, rather than being carried over to any potential new moulds. But I guess cost and whether there's actually enough customers who'd care are a major factor here. :/

[AKULA]

With these re-releases I take it there's no plan to sort out inaccuracies with those old HLBS models? I've mentioned it here before, but some of them are pretty major - from certain angles being completely wrong, to major details that are missing entirely.

Not sure what inaccuracies you mean...personally it’s clear what the models represent, so I’d hope Empress spend any spare cash on releasing new figures/vehicles rather than “fixing” something that most of us probably don’t realise needs “fixing” in the first place.

Please don’t take offense, as my response isn’t meant as a dig, I appreciate there are LAF’ers with an encyclopaedic knowledge of arms/armour/kit etc...I’m just in it for the laughs.