Just before jetting off to one of the hotspots in the UK for last weekend I took delivery of a small order from Black Tree as they had a 35% off German WWII and I knew I would be selling down on a lot of my snipers and had orders for more of the Russians in snow smocks so it was a good excuse to buy. Service was quicker than ever with them arriving within two days of order, another tale of good service to add to the previous good experiences.
I have painted all of these Russians before except possibly bottom row second on the left and bottom right. Good looking figures all that will paint up rather nice and not a bad pose between them. Though I plan to have a short break on painting these up as I have missed the 6mm I know these figures will draw me back to them.
By comparison the German's in greatcoats have never graced my desk and I am less impressed with the figures. Once they are cleaned up and undercoated I have a feeling I will like them more but a few of them have shortened rifles where the metal has failed to get to the ends of the mould which takes a little off them but at least they should be fairly fast to paint up.
I also ordered something else that I can not show on the blog until it has been reviled in one of the roleplaying sessions as I would hate to spoil the surprise.
On the subject of surprises I have been coming home from work expecting a nice sized package from Baker Company as the last figures were quoted as going out on Monday as Gavin now has a working casting machine. Well if your still waiting then it may well be that Gavin is yet to send out as the date has ended up being a little early. I had an e-mail tonight in reply to one I had just sent asking about my figures letting me know they will be sent out tomorrow so I hope to see them Monday if the wind is in the right direction. Of course I will show them off here.
I may get some great coat Germans in the future...I did like a $200 buy about 2 years ago when they had one of the 50% off sales....I went nuts...
ReplyDeleteThere are some nice poses on the Black Tree figures, they should look pretty goodwith a lick of paint!
ReplyDeleteJocke reported that our Baker figures arrived yesterday, now we just need to get together to split up the loot.
ReplyDelete@ Styx, My next big purchase from them will be a 50% sale, I don't think I will get any more in the meantime, but I have said that before.
ReplyDelete@ Andrew, well Gavin had a lot of issues and the project was very generous, I should get them on Monday, Tuesday at the very latest, fingers crossed.
@ Ray, hope you are right, though less convinced but they will get to the table sometime soon(ish)
@ Thomas, The splitting of the loot is usually fun, enjoy. I am rather looking forward to getting them and looking through them. Lee has had his a few months now but it's been for ever since I last visited so have not had a good look at his
Ian