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[commissarmoody]

I remember Red Wing.

[Hammers]

State Factory 7066 had an over run of material for children's duvet and pillow sets that year. The Thomas the Tank Engine Paratroop unit and Hello Kitty engineer battalion were arguably the losers in this scenario.

The orange camo IIRC is one used by rural firefighters. The Chinese are by no means unique in that btw.

 

[albert hall]

As usual cracking sculpts produced to such a high standard.  The sniper is ordered, but shall wait for the others to come out in more dynamic poses, wearing their helmets.  Hopefully.

[Treadheadz]

As usual cracking sculpts produced to such a high standard.  The sniper is ordered, but shall wait for the others to come out in more dynamic poses, wearing their helmets.  Hopefully.

Dynamic poses would rock!

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

Bit surprised that you have not worked out why the posts are static

[Treadheadz]

Erm, I think we all got that...

...But dynamic poses would be nice too - from a gaming point.

But the sculpts are top notch regardless, possibly the highest detail I've seen lately - But that goes for all of the Empress releases.

The weapons are slightly bigger than IRL - But I very much like that. The barrels are less prone to break and its easier to recognize in games.

Also, since you clarified that the straight brims of the boonies, are meant to be bent - I'm really tempted by the USMC line.

I only wished, the Booniehat heads came separate, so I'd be able to convert some US.Army troops with M4's into Raiders for my African Jungle setting.

But I guess there is time untill Salute'16
 

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

More modern sets have been added this morning. Firstly we have been constantly asked by customers for these latest releases of a handy set of British crew for recce vehicles. These are designed to fit most kits on the market (the Airfix vehicles for example) and have poseable arms and heads to allow flexibility and can be swapped around in vehicles for variety too.
Secondly we have two Mk19 grenade launcher sets, one for the British and another for USMC forces.









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[Queeg]

Given that I have two more Jackals, a Coyote and another Warrior to do this year the crews will be especially welcome !!!!

[worrywort]

Fantastic !

Hope to see the same for Russian army.

A grenades launcher would be great !

[The Travelling Man]

Very nice although sad to say the Brits don't use the Mk19- they use the H&K GMG (UKSF did however use them for a long stretch back in the 1990s and into the early 2000s so there's an option).

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

They nowadays use the H&K variant as standard but as you say they had the GL19 in the early 2000's and used them in Afghanistan along side each other. Sadly the Brits moved into the war under equipped and made a dash for the weapons supermarket to catch up. Nothing ever gets thrown away. 



 

[The Travelling Man]

I'm sorry to make a point of it but thats just not correct. UKSF had Mk19s- no regular units were ever equipped with them.

The GMG was adopted very quickly after the break-in battles of Herrick 4 in 2006 with some appearing before the end of that year on Herrick 5. Prior to that adoption, non SF units lacked any automatic grenade launcher capability.

[Mike Bravo Minis]

Those Jackal crews will be very useful. I'll have to get the mk19 just for the #2, very useful pose.

[carlos marighela]

I'm sorry to make a point of it but thats just not correct. UKSF had Mk19s- no regular units were ever equipped with them.

The GMG was adopted very quickly after the break-in battles of Herrick 4 in 2006 with some appearing before the end of that year on Herrick 5. Prior to that adoption, non SF units lacked any automatic grenade launcher capability.

Fortunately Eureka make the H&K GMG, so you could just swap the Mk-19 for the correct weapon and use the Empress crew.

http://eurekamin.com.au/product_info.php?cPath=87_126_150&products_id=10758

[commissarmoody]

Fortunately Eureka make the H&K GMG, so you could just swap the Mk-19 for the correct weapon and use the Empress crew.

http://eurekamin.com.au/product_info.php?cPath=87_126_150&products_id=10758

Nice.
Those figs don't do me much good because I am building up my US army, Russian, and Chines but still cool.