Expeditionary Forces Upcoming Releases July 2018 our good friend Peter Bergner has sent information next items from Expeditionary. This time it is various foot and mounted British Napoleonic troops. Also Scott of Expeditionary Force has given news of what it forth coming.
Expeditionary Forces Upcoming Releases July 2018 Press Release
54mm Napoleonic Wars (1812-1815) – British Regiments
54 BRT 03 Light Infantry 
54 BRT 03-G Grenadiers (Line Infantry, Grenadier Coy.)
54 BRT 05 Dragoons (mounted cavalrymen)
54 BRT 05-S Scots Grays
54 BRT 05-L Life Guards
The BRT 03 sets each contains 9 model foot soldiers comprising of 1 sergeant and 8 other ranks in various action poses. The Light Infantry set models wear the stovepipe shakos and include new action poses. The Grenadier set models are uniformed as flank coy. to complement our released BRT 01 Line Infantry, Centre Coy. set. (Both BRT 03 sets are based on the same models except for relevant uniform differences and the Light Infantry Sergeant is a new model due to its special equipment.)
The BRT 05 sets each contains 5 model soldiers and 5 model horses comprising 1 officer and 4 other ranks, with an optional pair of arms (with laced-sleeves) to convert one model into a trumpeter. Various sword arms are provided to allow for multi-pose models.
The uniforms are those of the British regiments (1812-1815).
Expeditionary Forces Upcoming Releases July 2018 Future Releases
Scott also posted the status of their future relases.
The next sets in the production release queue will be the first of 60mm Wars of the Roman Empire range starting with the Celtic Barbarians. These are designed to match with our existing Greeks and Macedonians sets and the forthcoming early Imperial Romans. There will be Infantry, Cavalry, Chariotry and Command sets. The first will be Infantry. We expect test production run by late-July 2018.
For the Napoleonic range, the next release will be the War of 1812 American Woodland Indian (Tecumseh’s) sets to complement the released Militia set.
On the Napoleonic British range, the Highland Command plus Highlander, Battalion Coy.; and Highland Light Infantry sets will follow, with Artillery and Light Cavalry sets following on from there.
The Napoleonic French range, the next sets to be released are the Cuirassiers; Carabineers and Dismounted Dragoons. The Imperial Guard sets will be covered at a later stage.
Looking forward to your kind support.
The range of Expeditionary Force is amazing, and the quality of the design, sculpting, and high quality of the soft plastic is beyond reproach.
When you look at what Expeditionary Force has already done, and what it projects to come in the near future, could anyone in this hobby have ever dreamed something like this would be happening?
Several toy soldier manufacturers have made wonderful contributions since Marx Toy Soldier Company left us (CTS, TSSD, AIP, Paragon, Atlantic, etc.) But I think the only thing that seems comparable to Expeditionary Force in range, quantity, and quality in my lifetime is when Richard Conte hit scene.
I mean that Conte “hit the scene”, rather than “hit scene” — as in “appeared on the scene”, “burst on the scene”, etc.
On the same theme, I felt that from the standpoint of having new toy soldier production, it was obviously a substantial loss to have Ron Barzso and Nick of TSSD retire from the business. I still think that, having liked and admired both of them.
But it’s nice having two new quality producers in Ken of LOD and Scott of Expeditionary Force stepping up to fill the void. ExForce production is amazing, and LOD’s production this year of four new American Revolution sets, and it’s planned production next year of a set of Amazon Warriors as an add-on to its “War at Troy” line is just great.
I’m not sure Tony at AIP has anything new planned at the moment, but CTS and Paragon both seem like on-going toy soldier producers who will continue to be active contributors.
I’m hoping our seeming dwindling base of collectors is able to support all these new efforts. But I can remember a time after Marx went out of business it seemed here in the U.S. there was practically nothing available in stores except Airfix HO (in the hobby stores), along with Britain’s Deetail (at higher-end toy shops). Now there’s quite a bit, although the chance of finding it in stores is gone with the wind. But mail-order, ebay, and toy soldier shows are OK with me.
Looking forward to the upcoming Celtic Barbarians from Ex-Force. Whats Great about the Roman conquests is the amount of countrys and tribes involved. So potentially Ex-Force could bring out many different figures ranging from Britain/Egypt/Persia/Spartacus and many more. So it will be interesting to see what they come up with.
Again i take the side opinion and repeat that I consider EXF the king of new production , amount sets per year release,variation,diversity .System used(plug in head =swapped heads and else to create more new poses per set) plus detail and historically accurate that make this maker far above any body else that had come producing since early 90s ,surpassing in amount and variation/diversity already AIP as EXF had done more sets than AIP in just 5 years versus AIP 15+ years .
I know this comment will/may get in to jump horses x another person who used only part of a similar I made before to create a fuss in another blog .
It is not about personal like or price per set .
It is amount sets,diversity and quality versus others makers..
The price had jump high x EXF is a fact .Yet if Conte would be making figures today he would had gone this high as when start his prices were above regular market already .
Neither I try degraded at all those who had done so great for this hobby in past ;included Tony from AIP with whom i had share many great moments and personal visit him /house,his warehouse else please.
I just try give EXF the input and value of it contribution that excel above any in this hobby since the demise of toy soldiers for the children market in early 70s .
In personal view I consider EXF true real 3D designed figures as Conte .While many of Austin,CTS,Paragon,TSSD,LOD poses are in same way not all poses are true 3D image .I also price LOD as only left standing yet in US x making in moment when long run producers had been gone x good and only short run producers stay foot with the ever increasing price-production and most from abroad .
My thoughts..
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Ex Force can really crank them out! Although I am not into Napoleonics, I do want to collect enough for a Battle of New Orleans. I look forward to the Celts. If Scot is doing early Romans then I’m sure he’s covering Hannibal’s Army. Like Darren mentioned I’d like Spartacus also.
Now I cannot tell do the line infantry and the light infantry have the same uniforms, I ask this because if I wanted a company of light infantry with good pose variation could I simply use the light infantry heads on BRT-01 as well as the regular light infantry set?
Evan,
You would need to use the light infantry Heads and Arms on BRT-01.
As the Light Infantry had wings on the shoulders.
So you would need to buy a set of each and you will have a set of BRT-03 poses with Belgic shako and battalion arms (without wings) left over.
Depending on how many figures you want in your Light Infantry unit, of course, you would always have leftovers unless you don’t mind having a British Line unit in the action poses too.
This is the drawback with the plug in system unless the extras heads and arms are offered in separate packs.
The Light Infantry sergeant normally carried a firearm, so you would need to use one of the spare musket arms on the BRT-01 figure, although this shouldn’t be an issue.
Will they be making grey horses for the Royal Scots?
Because Royal Scots=better known as Scots grey were supplied practically and theoretically with grey horses at all time .Yet of course sometimes a replace horse may had been different but it was the regiment pride to use all grey horses always .
You may see some simple info here…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Scots_Greys
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Too right, Erwin! Let’s expect them to make grey horses along with the other colors shown.
Grey horses in reality are mainly white with dappled grey areas on the rear end. The photos on the web site shows them on White horses in the set.
Erwin is of course correct in as much during war time you can’t get the stocks you exactly want so some brown and black horses may have been involved in the mix with re-stocking.
Calling Expeditionary Force the KING of current toy soldier production is a good way of putting it, especially when you consider the quality of soft plastic, the dependable & regular frequency of new releases, the excellent sculpting and historicity of all the releases, and a reasonable level of variation through the use of interchangeble heads and articulated arms.
One other excellent feature are the sturdy, well-designed boxes each set comes in, which make perfect storage containers.
The Napoleonic range is beautiful, and like others, I’m excited to see the introduction of his Roman/Barbarian sets, which I understand is not too far away — this year, actually. So far, Scott (as owner/operator of Expeditionary Force) has hit every release/production date he’s set. I assume it helps that he’s right there in Singapore, as a British colonial expatriate, and can communicate/interface easily & directly with the production facilities.
Ex force has a plan and they are good at it. They have basically four or five leg variations and they are well engineered so that the arms fit the figures well. For the most part on the foot figures they just have to make uniform changes to their master sculpts and churn out another set. Sort of like what AIP did except with better more detailed sculpting and AIP didn’t use alternative arms and heads. Most of the foot sets they do are similar in basic poses to the other sets they have done at least for the Napoleonics and War of 1812, the different arms make them look somewhat limitless, but they still don’t lend themselves to casualties or wounded poses. They are nicely done and the sculpting is excellent with great detail. I have the 1812 American Army set and there are 5 torso leg poses , the arms and heads are interchangable so the possibilities are almost endless the only limit is whatever the basis torso leg pose is are what you have to work with. Nice figures, nice plan, it works.
I guess we will have to wait even longer for the Pacific/CBI figures sets.
BOBBYGMOORE
Yea, I guess “we” will. Boo Hoo Hoo.
What is CBI?
Celtics, Barbarians, Imperial Romans? That would be my guess.
CBI is China-Burma-India Theater of Operations in WWII.
Awesome has he stated besides Japanese infantry and marines what other forces he is planning?
Keep in mind Expeditionary Force is still in the middle of its Napoleonic & War of 1812 releases. It is also about to unveil the first releases of an equally vast Roman & Barbarian range.
I don’t think Scott as President of Expeditionary Force has released any projected dates or details of a contemplated War in the Pacific range, precisely because it’s so far out.
Once ExForce does publicly release an estimated date, it has consistently adhered to it. Because it hasn’t done so for any U.S./Japanese/CBI sets, I suspect the time frame is considerably in the future, rather than imminent.
And, of course, there’s something all toy soldier collectors have to remember, as Rusty Kerns continually points out: the production & release of sets in the future is ALWAYS dependant upon the sale of current and/or existing sets. And if ExForce can’t reach satisfactory sales levels in the U.S. & Europe on Romans & Barbarians, they probably can’t do it on ANYTHING. Just my opinion, of course. But ExForce has released its current range of truly beautiful sets in a multitude of historical periods, and if sales targets aren’t met because some collectors are “holding out” for something else, I’m convinced the “something else” will never arrive.
Obviously you can’t blame a collector for not buying something he truly doesn’t want, but neither can you blame a manufacturer for being unwilling to continue to pour money down what may appear to him to be a rathole.
If I remember right, EXforce did say a little while back that the Pacific and CBI figure sets were planned to come out in 2018. Now, I know plans change and I accept that, but it is fustrating. Also, there is no way that I am going to buy sets that I don’t want just to support a figure maker in the hopes that he will years from now come out with a set I want to buy. I am a low buget collector and just don’t have the money at this time to do so. Nor, would I do it if I had the money, it just does not make sense to me to do that.
BOBBYGMOORE
Good thinking, Bobby!
My thoughts, too. I DO wish I had an extra couple thousand dollars that weren’t needed for nonsense such as food or mortgage to plop down and get some of these new sets in numbers required to set up decent formations. I supposed I will have to settle for buying the occasional set here or there that meets my needs or can fill a gap.
I am wondering how these new Napoleonics will blend in with my Airfix figures (a bit too fine for Timpo, I think) – I bought two sets of their War of 1812 American Militia and they’re not too out of step with some of the recent Alamo figures by Paragon and TSSD, though the sculpting style is different I don’t think it will be that noticeable once paint is applied.
But Airfix is definitely on the small side of the scale and the recasts I have are even smaller. Just thinking “out loud…”
Airfix are way not in scale w these in all.But you may use distance between different brands if doing large scenes.So I think are still suitable.
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Thanks, that’s what I figured. Nice to know BEFORE I splurge a lot of money.
Even when toy soldier figures from different manufacturers are theoretically the same scale — heigthwise — oftentimes the body style, sculpting, thickness or thiness of the figure are so different the figures still aren’t really compatible. Sometimes, even the shape or style of the base makes the figures look like they don’t really belong together.
For instance, I’ve never really found anything that is a good match for the 70mm Auburn WWII U.S. Marines, even though they represent some of the most artistic sculpting around. The same thing happens with the Ideal Rev. War/Alamo figures — the sculpting is beautiful, but they don’t match up well with anything else that’s available.
Nevertheless, as Erwin points out, there are several pretty good ways around this, which allows a collector to use great figures of different scales or sculpting styles in the same diorama:
1. As Erwin suggests, put the larger figures in the front, with the smaller figures toward the rear;
2. As an alternative, if you’re using a big battleboard or a large space of any size, just put different scales or styles in different sections of the “battlefield”. I do this all the time, and it actually looks quite good, without detracting in the least from what I think makes a nice diorama.
I do this all the time with the Marx 60mm & Marx 54mm figures in the Fort Apache and Robin Hood sets, both of which had very nice sculpts from the same historical time period, albeit in differing scales.
Of course, sometimes I have big enough 60mm collections and separate 54mm collections that there’s enough of each one that I don’t even have to mix them.
But if you like some figures in a 60mm scales, and others in the same era but in a 54mm scale, there’s really no reason you have to forego either size.
I try to collect all French Foreign Legion figures in plastic. I find that Marx, AIP, Conte, Oliver (of Spain), and CTS have all made this period in varying heights, styles, and colors, but I’ve been able to enjoy all of them.
For any that still can’t bring themselves to do this, permit me to point out that the Marx 60mm Robin Hood knights are an absolutely perfect match with both the Barzso Robin Hood knights, as well as the Expeditionary Force 60mm medieval sets. All three of these manufacturers go together perfectly.
And, as several have discovered, the 60mm Expeditionary Force Persians are completely compatible with Richard Conte’s famous Spartans, finally giving Conte’s Spartans a worthy opponent.
It’s now possible to set up completely realistic Thermopolaye and Battle of Marathon battle scenes. Of course for Marathon you have to call the Spartans Athenians. But Athenians & Spartans were both Greek Hoplites from roughly the same time period.
And for my final comment on this “important” subject, the 60mm LOD Greeks and Trojans are extremely good matches with the Atlantic 60mm Greeks and Trojans.
All above could blend and mach pretty easy if correct used or even with little imagination as well detailed exposed by Don.
I had found match and blend then in those way .Also because I manage in years get a lot other french Italian ,german and spaniards brand full sets vintage that go along with many in 60 to 75mm easy too.
All my Aurburn ,Ideal TM ,other US brand 70/75 mm match with Elastolin,Cofalu,Comansi ,PH,Nardi,Cane and many other in all eras from WW2 to previous wars .If you try use then in hand to hand close combat with different scale of course can not blend well but using the distance factor they can be displayed very nice and barely noticed by any.On Greeks there two chinese cheap made Supreme/”Shissler “!?sets very well suitable add on x CONTE,EXF and LOD scale figures too i got plenty of then and done some conversion.Also Atlantic ancients Greeks/tryans are awesome too.
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good looking figures excited for ww2 pacific and the celt chariot i personally collect mostly ACW,ww2 and onward, and the dark ages but i may just get a few Napoleonic sets i want some good Prussians from LOD or exforce
in regard to Prussians i just wanted to add i hope someone contributes some 7 years war Prussians ideally in 60mm
but 54mm doesn’t hurt either i like barszos figures but favor plastic instead of resin i personally collect 70mm,60mm,and 54mm figures so i will buy them if the detail is fantastic that’s all i really care about is quality at a good price do what makes you happy
Remember, the Barzso Robin Hood sets, as well as his Battle of Lexington and upcoming Battle of Yorktown sets, are all injection molded plastic.
They are indeed preferable to his resin releases, which nevertheless were pretty good in their own right.
In regard to the prussians not sure if x force will do any other countrys besides France Britain Canada and the US for the napoleonic time period as the belligerents were so vast however one thing that I saw on their coming attractions side was a Bavarian soldier in a Bavarian helmet marching, I also saw a different types of shako, possibly a Portuguese soldier although I know they typically wore British uniforms, possibly these are to come out with the napoleonic second releases with the imperial guard and boy I hope he makes a second fusilier set like he has with the Brits.
The Bavarian and figure with ball topped stovepipe shako have new heads on French Bodies. Scott stated that he would produce other forces for the period utilising existing figures and only changing some parts – heads and arms and other plug-in pieces to create the ‘look’ of the new unit.
As Scott is also a collector and the Napoleonic period being so vast it would seem reasonable to assume that the other main Armies – Prussia, Russia and Austria will come in time.
I had asked if he intended to produce the French Dragoons in the earlier uniform and the answer was YES in the future. So that saves me some money until then as I am only interested in the Peninsular Campaigns.
For the French he has already done the 3 basic units in rthe 1812 dress – Fusiliers, Grenadiers and Voltiguers so I would not think it practical to bring out more Fusiliers at this time. However I can’t say for sure.
The Imperial Guard are in the earlier uniform so when they are produced he will be bringing out the variations for them too ,so more types can be done from their bodies.
The more action poses in the British Light Infantry set reflect their different way of fighting from the Battalion companies.
Another thing has anyone heard wind of a British command set, like the French one including flagbearers drummers and generals as seen in their coming attractions section?
I expect they will come shortly to finish off the 1812-1815 period for the British to match their French enemies.
Just keep you eye open for more announcements.
He may have been waiting for the Highland Command poses to be finished as they will also need a flag bearer whose arms can be used by the Regular Infantry command. It’s all a matter of production and how to line up your moulds in order to get the maximum use out of them and ease the production schedule by using the parts on as many figure sets as possible. You will find this out when you start producing your range.
Have you any masters to share yet ?
I do have all 8 germans sculpted but as I am 3D sculpting them I only have one posed I would be happy to share with y’all if you’re interested?
Yes, we are interested! And the way to share the photos with us is to send them to Stad (Admin), and he will post them with necessary explanations, comments, and attribution.
Ok I will in a few days! Thanks for the interest
In what regard do you mean “germans” i like hessians and prussians could always stand to have more also would like to see some swedes for Napoleonics i have a certain kick for grenadiers specifically i find their hats whimsical I’ve always been more of a ACW,ww2,dark ages guy but i’m always expanding interests
I am creating WW1 figures, specifically us marines with and without gas masks and Germans in both picklehauben and stalhelm style helmet as well as with and without gas masks.
Some update new release prototype of EF american indinas early wars sets poses are been show in EX site ,this thematic will have a great impact in US collectors i think .
http://www.expeditionaryforce.com.sg/release.php
Celts are available