Wow, thanks a lot for these pictures CWO Marc! I for one am curious to see a pic of the new Anzac infantryman compared next to the other infantry pieces. Any chance of that please?
I’ll try to take a shot or two like that when I get home tonight.
Hi Wittmann, I take it you mean Pac40.2? Did you get a good bargain? :-)
CWO Marc, thank you - that is much appreciated. :-)
Who knows? £65. Desperately wanted Europe for the sculpts. Oh well.
The website is showing the new Pac40.2 selling for £64.29 delivered. I must say, that isn’t bad at all. Couldn’t find Eur40.2 on there yet though…
I paid 90 pence to have it delivered 1st Class. I was surprised it was only £64.
Will have to get both now!
Here are the comparative pictures Lozmoid requested. I’ll be posting a total of four.
Here are the other two pictures.
I hate to come across as a complainer, but ANZAC’s infantry is freakishly big. Especially next to china. Wizards has no concept of quality control.
They are scarily large! Pity.
The ANZAC dude on the far right seems slightly shorter, but not by much. Are they ALL like this?
Also, the base for the ANZAC Inf looks bigger than the standard base, how does this look on a chip?
CWO Marc, thank you very much for posting the pics and I’m glad I asked! Man, that ANZAC Infantry piece looks like Andre the Giant with a rifle… Talk about the thunder from down under, these guys are gonna be pretty intimidating! :-)
I think I will have to try and trim their bases with a sharp knife!
And their height!
Wonder if the commission to make them was given to an Aussie company and they thought they would take advantage and make their sculpts the scariest!
The ANZAC dude on the far right seems slightly shorter, but not by much. Are they ALL like this?
Also, the base for the ANZAC Inf looks bigger than the standard base, how does this look on a chip?
The size difference between the two ANZAC sculpts in the picture is just an illusion. My camera probably wasn’t precisely centered and precisely level when I took the shot, so the two ends of the lineup didn’t come out quite equal. Also, the camera model I have isn’t really designed for close-up work, so there may be a bit of lens distortion involved too. I haven’t compared the size of the ANZAC base to the base of the other pieces, nor placed it on a chip yet, so I can’t answer the second question; the main thing that struck me about it was the lack of stamping underneath.
CWO Marc, thank you very much for posting the pics and I’m glad I asked! Man, that ANZAC Infantry piece looks like Andre the Giant with a rifle… Talk about the thunder from down under, these guys are gonna be pretty intimidating!Â
You’re welcome. I hadn’t really noticed how big the ANZAC infantryman was until I placed it next to one of the other pieces, so it took me by surprise too. Perhaps in Australia and New Zealand kids listen to their mother when she tells them to drink their glass of milk so tha they’ll grow up to be tall and strong.
Also the pedestal he is standing on is much bigger.
I wonder if it fits on chips….
I hope no one thinks a mistake has been made!
Here are three shots I took of some ANZAC and Japanese troop sculpts lying on a table, with a steel ruler placed across the rim of the bases as a reference point. The ANZAC base diameter is definitely larger than standard troop sculpt base diameter. I also checked to see how well each sculpt stacked on a poker chip from the box. The Japanese base fitted exactly into the chip’s central depression, but the ANZAC one was too big; the difference is only fractional, but it’s enough to prevent the ANZAC base from fitting properly into the chips.
It might be a sign of things to come, the infantry are the same since 1984.
Perhaps these ANZACS are a test run of larger bases to be introduced to all infantry units, and made taller.
The infantry are the only pieces that have never changed, while everything else was upgraded.
Well, looks like I’ll have to order the yellow-green artillery and fighter neutrals from HBG…
They just couldn’t make China have its own color artillery and a fighter or two, yet the Europe game has French battleships and aircraft carriers…
ugh…
