New Russo-Japanese range previews!

[Leon]

It's been a while since we've had many previews as we've been trying to get all of the older projects ticked off and released, but it's finally time for some stuff!

Our existing Russo-Japanese range is both small and old, so not ideal for much of anything really.  This new range is a complete overhaul with more troop types and more poses, opening up this conflict for some proper games as well as some useful proxy options too.

This whole range was actually commissioned by a customer of ours who was really wanting to game this period.  He's certainly not held back and we'll have a pretty comprehensive range here once it's released.  The only additional items planned currently are some extra guns I think.

So, we've got:

Russians

Early war infantry / Summer infantry:
RJR1 by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr

Early war foot command / Summer foot command:
RJR2 by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr

Captain / Dragoon escort / Priest / Mounted officers / Winter infantry:
RJR3 by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr

Frontier guards / Sailors / Throwing grenade / Field telephone team:
RJR4 by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr

Artillery crew in early war kit / M1900 field gun / Artillery crew in summer kit:
RJR5 by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr

Artillery crew in winter kit / Winter foot command:
RJR6 by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr

Dismounted cossacks / Dismounted cavalry / Horse holders and officer:
RJR7 by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr

Mounted lancer / Maxima machine gun and crew / Casualty:
RJR8 by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr


Japanese

Early war infantry with command / Mid-Late war infantry with command:
RJJ1 by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr

Throwing grenade / Winter infantry with command:
RJJ2 by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr

Mounted and dismounted cavalry:
RJJ3 by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr

Artillery crews / Generals and staff:
RJJ4 by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr

Field telephone team / 75mm field gun / Hotchkiss team / Casualty:
RJJ5 by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr


Chinese
Chinese civilians:
RJC1 by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr


One note for those who've noticed the flags here, the customer requested those for his own armies but we'll be removing them for our production versions, leaving just the bare pole as usual.  We'll then get some flags designed to go with these ranges.

Timescales shouldn't be long on this lot as we'd like to have them done and released before the end of the year.  The only stumbling block may be all of the shows coming up but I'm hopeful that we can work around those and get this range moulded up.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Wow, what a coup

[Shedman]

Excellent

[Chad]

I have the following books on the history of the war if anyone is interested.

'Rising Sun, Tumbling Bear' and 'The Tide at Sunrise'

PM me if so

[fred.]

That is a nice surprise!

These make a big range - and I assume plenty of the figures work for WWI too?

[paulr]

      

[Steve J]

What a nice surprise and I can see these figures, especially the Russians, working well into WWI, the RCW abd beyond .

[DecemDave]

Very nice.  Since I saw the pic including the priest figure, I keep hearing the tune from Dr. Zhivago  )
"We only came to see the Tsar"! 

Before I send for my wallet to be released from the deep secure vault I banished it to, can the period experts suggest just how much uniforms/equipment did or didnt change 1904-1922? So is it feasible to produce a core Russian army to cover RJW, WW1 and RCW using the other existing ranges for any more specific types?   

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Not an interest but lovely figures

[mmcv]

Oh, you tease, that's definitely one on the list! Glad I held off now.

[steve_holmes_11]

Like Kermit, it isn't an interest.

I'd add that every complete range like this boosts Pendraken's credibility as a supplier who can get you "all the things".

[Leon]

These make a big range - and I assume plenty of the figures work for WWI too?

So is it feasible to produce a core Russian army to cover RJW, WW1 and RCW using the other existing ranges for any more specific types?   

I'd think so yes, we'll be pulling some of the WWI Russian cavalry straight over to this range and the peaked caps will cover those periods too.

I'd add that every complete range like this boosts Pendraken's credibility as a supplier who can get you "all the things".

Thanks Steve, that's the aim these days wherever possible as it just makes more sense from both a gaming and sales perspective.

[Ben Waterhouse]

That's another hole for me to go down...

[fsn]

Ah! OK. I can see Tannenberg in my future.

Those Chinese civvies also have many uses.

And I don't have a Winter campaign ... so Russo-Japanese winter, some scenery, then I could branch out and finally get some T34s ... ooh and the Bulge becomes do-able ... and are some of those TB Line ranges suitable for the Battle on the Ice? 

Actually the Russo-Japanese war gives me an excuse for pre-Dreadnaughts in 1:3000, just need to re-watch Dracinifel's excellent YouTube videos on the 2nd Pacific Squadron - which would have to include the Kamchatka! 

This could be expensive ,,, and I love it!

[fsn]

Point of order: I reserve the right to paint winter grenade throwers as being in a snowball fight.