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Perry's first foray into ww2 are almost here and will be available at Salute

The Desert Rats can now be Pre-ordered and will be available from us at Salute for the first time. If you order 3 boxes direct from us you will recieve metal General Montgomery and brigadier figures FREE!

Desert Rats 1940-43. 38 hard plastic multipose British or Commonwealth infantry for the desert war. There are enough to make a platoon of 3 sections plus an HQ section. Also included are 32x 20mm circular and 4x 40mm square bases (for the support teams). £18.00

I love how the officer is singing show tunes.

Normally, I'm pretty hard on the Perry's because their plastics are so boring, and great googly moogly did they make a lot of models that capture the excitement of checking your rifle for sand, but these look like they have a lot of exciting poses as well. I am surprised and heartened by their bold embrace of the aspects of combat that involve aiming, shooting, and doing violence. If only the rest of society had the nerve to portray war as something other than nonthreatening men on long, tedious marches, we might not grow so fond of it.


Seriously, though, the details seem as crisp and sharp as one would expect from miniatures designers with the highest reputation.

The best part is how they are £18.00 for 38 minatures, compared to the same price for 10 of GW's plastic Cadians...

Very tempted to use a few boxes of these to flesh out my Guard army.

They should do some modern stuff with taliban/ al qaeda etc. Would sell really well, to hell with political correctness.

I was talking with someone who did an Afghan tour about gaming and the first thing he asked about was if he could do UK vs. taliban games.

Finally, WWII desert plastics!

Excellent but I want more Medievals!

I don't even play WWII games, but 18 pounds for 38 plastic soldiers that cool is so ridiculous that I might buy them. That is right plastic pricing.

These look fantastic, but I take it by the base sizes that they're either 25mm or "true" 28mm? If they're the same size as the WGF GI's they'll be completely titchy next to GW models, even the slightly-better-proportioned FW guardsmen :/

28mm.

GW Imperial Guard are heroic 35mm, pretty much, the lasgun alone is around 4 feet long and they make space marines look like weedy midgets.