Battlefront Miniatures To Offer New Plastics For Flames Of War
May 22, 2017 by stvitusdancern
Battlefront Miniatures has announced that they will be releasing new spruces of miniatures in flexible plastic for infantry and gun crews for Flames of War their 15mm WWII game.
According to the video, they have released it will be some form of ABS. They claim that it will reduce the costs of miniatures as it lowers production costs.
This will mean a little different approach when basing and painting your miniatures. There has been some concern voiced by the public about paint flaking off and the cleanup process of mould lines.
There was even a comparison of plastic soldiers from years past. I say at this point let's wait till we have them in out hands and find out for ourselves.
What are your thoughts on the new plastic?
"They claim that it will reduce the costs of miniatures as it lowers production costs..."
That doesn’t sound good at all but I hope that I am wrong those turn out to be good.
Been using plastic miniatures for a long time, and modern plastics (both HIPS and ABS) seem to have resolved the paint issues with Acrylics, not so sure about enamels.
Will be watching this with interest, always liked the BF 15mm plastics, and hopefully this will mean ‘early war’ figures.
The mediocre paint job doesn’t really help to convince me this is an improvement tbh.
Also the Bren gun looks suspiciously as if it is the muzzle missing..
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I picked up both the new metal afrika corp and new “bendy” plastic desert rats infantry blisters. The metal figures are pretty much what you’d expect with regards to mold lines and detail. My main problem with them are the number of gun barrels bent/broken off. At 15mm it’s pretty much impossible to repair a broken rifle barrel even if you can find the pieces mixed in with the flash in the blister. The new plastic figures are pretty similar to the metals in detail. They even have around the same number of bent barrels. None were broken off though… Read more »
I want to see them and have a closer look. The detail is decent for 15mm though I prefer PSC in most things.
Just wait until the paint starts chipping off, this is not new, it has been around since the 80’s and I think before that. No matter what you call it, it is soft plastic. Italeri and Revell use the same plastic its a bugger to keep the paint on them, I sort help with this, but if this is the soft plastic which Italeri or Revell do then you need a covering which bites into the plastic to keep the paint on. If this is the same plastic as Revell and Italeri use then it is a very big mistake… Read more »
I have a lot of those Italeri kits and it’s not the same plastic. It’s more resiny than that. If you’ve ever worked with mantic’s dreadball minis or privateer’s plastic starter sets it’s the same type of plastic. It seems to hold paint as well as hard plastic does. Granted if you bend a figure 90 degrees back and forth maybe the paint will get ruined but really, if you bent a metal or hard plastic mini like that you’d break the figure as well as ruin the paint.
I hope these are less soul-destroying to clean the mould lines than *some* soft plastic minis I’ve prepped. Yer man saying a file might make them “fluffy” makes me fear they are.
Not my scale, though. Good luck to those buying into this.