Italian Artillery & the Top Ten??????

[Martyn]

I know I have asked for this ages ago and I see that at one point it was No:1 on the Top Ten requests but is Pendraken ever going to produce any field guns for the Italians? What is the point of having a Top Ten when it seems to be a constantly shifting target? Forget the whole concept of a Top Ten and just give customers a list of items and likely production dates so at least we know. Alternatively there is another company who do a good range. If Pendraken are not going to produce requested items or give a cut off date for the TOP TEN items, please just say so and then customers can make alternative arrangements.

[GordonY]

I'm ashamed to say all my Italian Arty is Minifigs. 

[Leon]

There's some info at the top of the board about the requests (http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,133.0.html) which explains that the requests aren't a definitive list of what's going to be produced, they are to give us an idea of what might be popular items to produce.  There's a few things which have been on there for a while, and some of them will likely be there for a good while longer to be honest.  We've only got a finite design budget, and to get everything on the Top Ten's done would be at least a couple of years worth of design pennies. 

On a more positive note though, we have been making some progress on some Italian artillery, it's just not been previewed on the Forum yet. 

[Bernie]

Hi Martyn

Pithead miniatures do and extensive and growing range of WWII vehicles and artillery. The Italian artillery looks especially good but the crew do not as good as Pendraken's, so perhaps you can mix and match.

They also do lots of softskins that might be appropriate to give a bit of variety

They even do Bersaglieri motor cyclists and MG teams

Bernie

[Martyn]

Hi Leon
Glad to hear that there is/are to be Italian artillery. Can you say which gun/s are going to be produced and will they have proper crew? I remember purchasing the pendraken Bofors and being highly amused with crew consisting of one man with a heavy artillery shell on his shoulder and an standing officer!!! Please can we have more than two poses?

Martyn

[Leon]

Me and Dave need to sit down once we get all the Xmas orders out of the way and work out the release schedule for the first half of next year.  The guns will need some crew figures doing for them, so once we've figured out what's what, I'll get back to you.

[Natxo]

Please, add my vote for the Italian artillery.