Plastics are back

From: Mark C.O. <markconz_at_...>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 01:49:45 -0000

Hello Netepic heretics ;)

Good news from Jervis:

"I'm very happy to be able to announce that we have been in close
correspondence with GW's plastic's division over the last few weeks,
and after much negotion and planning it looks like we are going to
be able to release plastic Epic infantry after all.

I hope you'll forgive me for playing my cards very close to my chest
on this subject, but I wanted to avoid dissapoint if the scheme fell
through. What we've found out is that it is possible to make a few
minor corrections to a plastic mould and a relatively cheap cost
(only several thousand pounds!) Once we knew this we were able to
come up with a scheme that allowed us to make enough minor
corrections to the exisiting plastic sprues so that we can re-
release them for them as part of the Epic Armageddon range.

The new sprues are rather more 'focused' then the old E40K sprues,
having less variety but a more sensible distribution of the models
that are on the sprue. For example, the Guard sprue will no longer
has Rough Riders, but will have rather more standard Imperial
Guardsmen than it did before. We've done this to make it easier for
you to use the plastic sprues to bulk up the rank & file infantry in
your army, and to avoid situations where you end up with a stand or
two of certain units rather than a full formation.

We'll be backing up the plastic sprues with metal infantry strips
that will cover any units not available in plastic. As noted above
these will tend to be rather specialised and elite units. They'll be
sold in formation sized sets, which I think is a rather better way
of dealing with them than trying to cram all of the different units
onto a single plastic sprue. Using the rough riders mentioned above
as an example again, our plan is to make metal versions of these
troops that will be sold in a 'Rough Rider Platoon' blister pack
that contains enough models to field an entire platoon.

Unfortunately we won't have any examples of the new style plastic
sprues for several months yet, but I thought you would like to know
of the change in policy as soon as it had been confirmed.

Jervis Johnson
Head Fanatic"

Cheers
Markco
Received on Thu May 08 2003 - 01:49:45 UTC