Hobby News

I spoke to Caesar Miniatures and they assured me that they will do more World War Two sets in the future and more modern sets too. They still plan on doing a H60 set this year, but won't say what it will be!

The HaT Tank Riders are almost ready. The set I got was a pre-production set and I suspect the real set will be some other color than sea foam green.

Pegasus have a My Favorite Martian set in the works that will be about 60mm. It will feature Uncle Martian in is space suit with antennas and his little space ship.

Pegasus has also got their When Worlds Collide space ship very near to store shelves. It looks great and will work as a WWII era rocket ship too, it will stand on end and is about the size of a 1/72nd scale V-2 missile.

Zvezda has a WWII wargame on the market and the game pieces are in some cases 1/72nd scale figures and equipment. They include German and Soviet Infantry and a Soviet 37mm AA gun.

Orion has announce a set of a quad water cooled AA machine guns in 1/72nd scale plastic. It looks great.

Pegasus WWI and WWII French are in stores now here in North America. They are really great figures and fit nicely with the Airfix and Caesar WWI / WWII French Infantry.

Toy Fair

Then Nurnberg Toy Fair is on now. It is the time of they year when model companies show off their new products for the next years or even longer. There have been several new releases from Italeri so far.

US Cavalry from the Indian Wars
Apache Indians
WWII German Paratroopers in tropical uniform

I wonder if these may be Revell's old figures, but don't know. I hope they are new figures.
WWII German Soldiers in winter uniform
WWII American Soldiers in winter uniform

All good stuff. The Strelets US Cavalry set is okay, but far from great. I have four of them, but if Italeri does a better set I would buy a bunch of them. The new Caesar Miniatures German Paratroopers are nice, and I just got about a dozen of them. Pegasus is still planning on a set of Paratroopers, but it will be a long time before we see them.

Bits and Pieces

Operation Antarctica - HAUNEBU from Odemars is a great new set that will complement a new accessory that they will release later this year. It will be the single most unique set of figures and accessories ever made by any soft plastic figures company in the history of soft plastic figures. I have helped them with this set when they first got started on it several years ago. So look here for that announcement.



Another new set just about to hit the shelves is coming from Pegasus. It will be a great new set also, another new direction for Pegasus. I hope to be able to announce more about this set in the next few days too.



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I just got an eBay auction and it came with these rather odd 1/32 scale size figures, about 54mm tall, maybe 2 1/4 inches tall. These two look like WWII Germans a repairman and a tank commander.

These identical guys have a lunch box of some kind. Maybe construction workers.



One man has binoculars and the other could be a space man or a race car driver. Any ideas on who made these interesting figures?