[Commercial] PSC and Xan Miniatures Annoucment on Facebook

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As seen on Facebook...

We’re absolutely delighted to announce a licensing agreement with Xan Miniatures that will see us producing Xan’s excellent 20mm WW2 range in our Ultracast plastic.

This means that our 20mm Ultracast range will expand rapidly in 2021 and makes these great models available to you in plastic.

We’ll launch these as platoon boxes with additional support, and our first three releases are going to be:

US Marine Corps Platoon
Japanese Platoon
US Airborne Platoon (Normandy)

These are coming in the next couple of months, and we’ll be adding more of the Xan range throughout the year.

The Marines and Japanese are perfect for our Battlegroup Pacific War supplement, and we have a Stalingrad release planned … ahead of the launch of Battlegroup Stalingrad!

[forrester]

Interesting..and a good way of getting hold of good quality figures more cheaply.
I'd be interested to hear views of what the Ultracast figures are like in the flesh and how they compare with metals.

[crafty]

Good news... I don't use Facebook so thank you for posting. I have been wanting to start a US Airborne force for a very long time but frankly the offerings in plastic haven't excited me at all. The Italeri/Esci poses are just too static and boring, and that set seems to be the only box of figures available for US Airborne at the moment. I will be keeping an eye out for the figures here in Australia, and hope that PSC will manufacture a sufficient quantity. Their 1/72/20mm stuff seems to get snaffled up very quickly, with only slim pickings available here in OZ.

[Littlearmies]

Good news... I don't use Facebook so thank you for posting. I have been wanting to start a US Airborne force for a very long time but frankly the offerings in plastic haven't excited me at all. The Italeri/Esci poses are just too static and boring, and that set seems to be the only box of figures available for US Airborne at the moment. I will be keeping an eye out for the figures here in Australia, and hope that PSC will manufacture a sufficient quantity. Their 1/72/20mm stuff seems to get snaffled up very quickly, with only slim pickings available here in OZ.

Funnily enough, here in Southern Spain it's the 20mm stuff that sits on the shelf of my local shop for eons (and that was before the onset of the Chinese pestilence). Locally for WWII it's all 28mm Warlord and 15mm FOW / PSC that sells. I'm not wild about them being in plastic at all though - too many memories of the frustrations of Airfix and Matchbox plastics when I was a boy. I wish Xan and PSC a fair wind though.

Unfortunately there is no prospect of Tony Barton sculpting US Airborne in the near future - but then before Brexit I bought a years supply of 20mm AB to paint and I have an AB Napoleonic lead mountain to paint as well.

[Storm-the-front]

Infantry should only be cast in metal 

[bluewillow]

I will be in for a number of boxes of Airborne I think, and maybe some Japanese too.

Cheers
Matt