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Taken from their website. Decals at last - hurray!

**UPDATE 5th March 2012**

News from PSC HQ:-

Preparations for a grand Spring Offensive abound.

We are delighted to announce the release of our new 1/72nd Sherman M4A1 75mm kit - 3 easy assembly tanks for £12.95. Each sprue has optional sand shields and a bristling British commander - El Alamein here we come!

Right behind is the long awaited 15mm Sherman M4A4/Firefly kit which we are releasing this Friday. 5 vehicles in a box for £17.50 and each sprue has options to build either the M4A4 or Firefly variant. Available now in the Upcoming products section.

Come and see me at WMMS in Wolverhampton this Sunday 11th March to get the new shinies and lots of great unit and army deals.

To go with the Fireflies we will be releasing the 15mm Guards Armoured Division Decal set towards the end of the month. Again the set will have all you need for those collecting a Guards Armoured Division army - divisional insignia, arm of service markings, bridge markings and tank squadron tactical markings. Tally Ho!

Alongside the Guards we will also be releasing further 15mm Decal sets for Panzer Lehr, Gross Deutschland, 21st Panzer Division (Normandy), 2nd Panzer Divison, Herman Goering Panzer Division, 10th SS Panzer Division, 7th Armoured Division (Normandy), 11th Armoured Division, 4th Canadian Armoured Division and 1st Polish Armoured Division. Soviet, Allied Stars, Afrika Korps and British/Commonwealth Western Desert coming soon.

For the 1/72nd crowd all these decal sets will be appearing in 1/72nd over the next 2-3 months.

To complete March's new releases, we are releasing the 15mm Russian Infantry Heavy Weapons set next wednesday 14th March (available now to pre-order below in the Upcoming products section). 4 maxim teams, 4 x 50mm mortars, 4 x 80mm mortars, 4 x 120mm mortar teams and 8 x PTRS anti tank rifles for £16.50.

April is looking good for 15mm Late War German Infantry Heavy Weapons, 1/72nd Sherman M4A1 76mm Wet and 1/72nd 251/D Halftrack.

May/June will see the 251 conversion kits in 15mm and 1/72nd, 1/72nd Late War German Heavy Weapons and some other goodies - more news later.

On the radar - 15mm Tiger Is, KV1/2, T60/70s, Stuarts, Churchills, M3/5 halftracks British and US Infantry; 1/72nd Universal carriers, Stuarts and US Infantry plus artillery, towed and self propelled, 15mm and 1/72nd.

Awesome, the Heavy Weapons Packs look like brilliant value for money!

I saw that. I guess it will be a while before the kits I'm interested in appear - the Stuart, US half-track and Tiger. Strange that the Universal Carrier is coming out in 1:72 scale first, as this seems to be the opposite of their normal approach.

The good news is that my PSC Panthers arrived today

Excellent news on your Panthers TAILGUNNER, mine are finished, apart from DECALS and a DULLCOTE. Best tanks I have bought in a long time, joy to build, joy to paint and kick ass on the battlefield to boot.

Nice.

Roll on whatever date they choose for Brit infantry and M3 haltracks.

This news also means I will hold off buying the remaining Churchills I wanted, sorry BF your miscast tracks & hulls vex me so that I am prepared to wait.

T60s and T70 is new news as is the artillery being towed and self propelled.

Looking forward to some Wespes making an appearance.

If they make m7 priests I will be a happy camper. I can't really look forward to dropping just about 80 dollars on a single battlefront unit of them. I may also have to go back later on and replace my half tracks with PSC ones. It depends on how they look I guess

I spoke to Will on E-mail about 2 weeks ago and he confirm he has the 15mm Motorised Artillery on the go, it's now a case of getting them manufactured and to be honest I think he's working flat out to get the Box sets produced and out. His release schedule is pretty crowded, equally he is working at the 15mm scale and 1/72 scale simultaneously which means our FOW releases will be 50- 60% of his output so we just need to hang on. I can see his little company Expanding rapidly in the next 18 months.

OOooooooo T60s, fantastic!

Hey mwnciboo, what colour did you use to paint your panther, they look pretty nice and the best thing is that no camouflage needed.

It's a Crap photograph, I'll do a better one and send it to you.

However, I use Vallejo Panzer Series 70882 Middlestone. It is recommended by a lot of FOW painters and it's very good.

I usually give it two coats, then detail the model. Then I wash with Ogryn Flesh, once dry I then a thin light wash of Thraka Green.

Then I do a bit more detailing, and then I drybrush the model with Vallejo Iraqi Sand 70819.

The it's time to Varnish, Decals, weather it and then finally dullcote it. It's alot of effort but it's worth it.

mwnciboo wrote:I spoke to Will on E-mail about 2 weeks ago and he confirm he has the 15mm Motorised Artillery on the go, it's now a case of getting them manufactured and to be honest I think he's working flat out to get the Box sets produced and out. His release schedule is pretty crowded, equally he is working at the 15mm scale and 1/72 scale simultaneously which means our FOW releases will be 50- 60% of his output so we just need to hang on. I can see his little company Expanding rapidly in the next 18 months.

Agreed. I wasn't complaining about the wait for the models I'm interested in - PSC releases stuff relatively fast, and there's no doubt that they are focusing on important vehicles. While issues like the absence of Zimmerit will put some people off, I think more and more FoW players and modellers will gravitate towards PSC as their range expands. And I think even die-hard resin/metal fans will find it hard to resist artillery and half-tracks.

As they expand, they may need to look at having the moulding done outside the UK. Apparently there is a real bottleneck there, which is why GW invested in their own plastic moulding facilities.

Tailgunner wrote:

mwnciboo wrote:I spoke to Will on E-mail about 2 weeks ago and he confirm he has the 15mm Motorised Artillery on the go, it's now a case of getting them manufactured and to be honest I think he's working flat out to get the Box sets produced and out. His release schedule is pretty crowded, equally he is working at the 15mm scale and 1/72 scale simultaneously which means our FOW releases will be 50- 60% of his output so we just need to hang on. I can see his little company Expanding rapidly in the next 18 months.

Agreed. I wasn't complaining about the wait for the models I'm interested in - PSC releases stuff relatively fast, and there's no doubt that they are focusing on important vehicles. While issues like the absence of Zimmerit will put some people off, I think more and more FoW players and modellers will gravitate towards PSC as their range expands. And I think even die-hard resin/metal fans will find it hard to resist artillery and half-tracks.

As they expand, they may need to look at having the moulding done outside the UK. Apparently there is a real bottleneck there, which is why GW invested in their own plastic moulding facilities.

Or go into moulding for themselves?

Where are the new GW moulding facilities located? In PRC? I would not be surprised, given the issues of their failcast range...
Btw, it would be interesting to know, whether the new 15mm German Heavy wepon kit will allow placing mortars within PSC halftracks thus giving us cheap 251/2's...

Yeah on the subject of the mouldings, I could see this being a Bottleneck for PSC if another contractor makes them. These facilities are expensive and must be run 24/7 to make a profit, so all the work will be scheduled with various companies in a cycle. They simply aren't waiting round twiddling their thumbs waiting for a Green Light. I think you maybe right that opening their own facility maybe a possibility but then the Price may have to go up and take away the whole point of the cheap sprues. We shall see eh?

@CainTheHunter You could make your own with PSC 251's and FiB mortars...

CainTheHunter wrote:Where are the new GW moulding facilities located? In PRC? I would not be surprised, given the issues of their failcast range...
Btw, it would be interesting to know, whether the new 15mm German Heavy wepon kit will allow placing mortars within PSC halftracks thus giving us cheap 251/2's...

No, they have their own moulding equipment in the UK, as far as I know. Apparently FW does it's resin casting in China now.

Let's keep Finecast out of FoW discussions. I only mentioned GW because it seems likely PSC will have to go down the same path to expand - and one of the issues that competitors like PP face is trying to source plastic moulding. mwnciboo is right about what it may mean in terms of price if PSC do this, but it must already cost them a chunk of money to have their models moulded for them. If they can crack that problem, they could be very successful.