Hey -War-Gaming!

I'm hoping that anyone interested in war-gaming -I am not talking about fantasy/40k but the much older military war-gaming- checks out some of the blog links, especially Plastic Soldier Review which (hush. Calm Terry) had this news:

Great news for the Great WarA while ago we told you about the contents of the forthcoming World War I gift sets from Airfix, which will include many new figures. Well Airfix have now confirmed to us that those figures will also be made available as individual figure sets. The set numbers and names are:

• 01764 - WWI French Infantry 1914
• 01765 - WWI British Field Gun and Crew
• 01766 - WWI French Field Gun and Crew
• 01767 - WWI German Field Gun and Crew

All the sets are new sculpts, and all the field guns are logical choices. So the British will have the 13-pdr, the French the '75 and the Germans the 1896 n/A 77mm. All are for the early part of the war, so no steel helmets anywhere, and all the guns will come with full crews and limbers but no teams. We have been shown some of the sculpts and they look very good - much better than the WWII British produced a couple of years ago.

Airfix also say that they have plans for more new sets over the following three years to mark the progress of the Great War, including several that have never been made before in this scale. Plenty to look forward to there then, but these first four are all expected before the end of this year.

Hat Industries and even Emhar and Strelets produce WW 1 figure sets so fingers crossed the new ones will be of figures -as promised- never before produced!