Expeditionary Force Armed Peasants, I have news from Expeditionary Force about two groups the first is armed peasants just what you need for your medieval settings. The other group is WWII Japanese.
Expeditionary Force Armed Peasants Information
Dear All,
Greetings from Singapore!
Very pleased to inform you of the coming release of a supplementary set in the “60mm Wars of the Middle Ages – Peasants’ War” range.
60 NMQ 01 Armed Peasants (14th Century)
All models are supplied unpainted
The sets will be available for shipment next week (week beginning 24 June 2020).
60mm Medieval Peasants’ War (14th Century)
Note that there will be a B option set where the leader will be replaced with a medieval monk. We could not fit the monk model into this set (toolings) and thus has to be included in the next one.
It is the Black Death and the Hundred Years’ War that exacerbated the sufferings of the peasants so much that two major rebellions break out in the 14th Century: the French Jacquerie of 1358 and the English Wat Tyler’s Peasants’ Revolt of 1381.
Armed Peasants More information
As the middle ages are still a feudal establishment, many medieval armies include a significant number of armed peasant levied from the barons’ lands. The models of this set will serve to depict such soldiers as well.
The model above is intended to be the bandleader. Five different weapons are depicted above: pitch-fork, scythe, maul, billhook, and bill. All these are improvised weapons made from available farm tools.
We felt that the irregular shape soft plastic (N-PVC) poles are more appropriate for a peasant army rather than the smooth and straight hard plastic (ABS) polearms of professional soldiers.
Nonetheless, the hand ax is a powerful weapon in the hands of a person familiar with its use. Clubs and slings from the barbarian sets (Celts and Germans) can also be used to increase the weapon options for these models’ A close up of some of the models. The left model depicts a peasant leader, perhaps a returned crusader and a defrocked monk. His military experience gives him the quality of a leadership role.
The usual dress of a peasant of the 14th century is the hooded cape, a sleeved tunic, and a pair of hose or trousers. They are often seen barefooted while moving about their farms but I believe that they would wear shoes if they are setting out for war.
We had originally planned to include archers in this set but, the number of poses and equipment will be severely limited, due to tooling space constraints. Accordingly, the archers will be in a separate set (60 NMQ 02) to be released later.
Also, no peasant revolt or any important enterprise of the medieval period could proceed without the blessings of a monk or preacher. We thus took the opportunity to include such a model in our second set.
Hope that you and your customers will find something of interest in these models. These are all new sculpted figures.
World War Two Japanese
The next set in the production queue is the 54mm Pacific War Japanese Infantry (54 PWJ 01) to be released in September 2020.
Two shots of the final sculpt of 54 PWJ 01 already in the toolings stage. The soldier has the ammo supply on a slung bag, serving as assistant to the light machine gunner on the left.
PWJ 04 is still work in progress with a Type 97 mortar referred to as “xiao-gang-pao = little steel cannon” by the Chinese soldiers.
Looking forward to your kind support
Stay safe.
Cheers,
Scott
NB: The pandemic appears to be under control in Singapore, Malaysia, and China, and the restrictions on travel and logistics are in the process of being lifted. There is every hope that a vaccine will be rolled out in quantity before the end of the year. Again, we seek your kind understanding and patience during this period. Once we get over this dark patch, I believe that all of us shall feel the sunshine again.
What is shipping time like from Singapore these days? My last Singapore package from an eBay purchase was around 90 days, as were parcels from Russia and China. The sellers from Singapore and China actually gave me refunds because they thought the packages were “lost or stolen”. I did pay them when the orders finally arrived, though. Steve Weston has a note on his site that he has “two lots of orders stuck in Russia due to the lock down there”. My contact in Germany told me that USPS isn’t even accepting parcels from Germany, with the exception of DHL which is triple the price. I did buy something from England via DHL recently that arrived in CT in TWO DAYS, but was quite expensive to ship. Right now, making purchases from overseas does not seem like a wise idea????
I sent a package to the UK via the post office and it took a week. I have a package to go to Peru, but they have closed things off. I would wait until a dealer in the states get them.
Look forward to the Japanese and Marines.
I have a sold lot send to France and miss ship to Sweden since late May.USPS says is over 60 days to open any claim.
The label clearly show right address and track show case miss delivery to an unconfirmed address…
It was mail priority main international and even so nothing could be done.It amaze me how the USPS could delivery to wrong countries.
I find out recently they divert to other countries parcel because those countries momentarily stop accepting mail by air or sea.
But the packers were lost in storage or miss placed after.!!!
Packed from abroad arriving here are redelivery to customs USPS warehouse facilities to alleviate amount per weeks and end storage in containers parking x long .Some never found.
Once storage in these facilities the tracking automatically is set in red as not moving and nothing can be done.
All mail in and out had been screw up big time by the pandemic situation.
Some packs arrive quickly, others not and some lost x ever.
Our USPS system is crumbling long ago and not enough budget .I’m surprise not in bankruptcy yet.
Ebay sales had drop consecutive in last 3 months international because of it.
Ebay shut off the chat and telephone line help contact to avoid to much complain and literally left buyers sellers resolve their issues as they can.
Not longer sellers or buyers can have the ebay rules warranty and all become a battle field of good luck or get best …
Every body is losing a lot money.mailing international is s risk lost x most.
UPS ,FEDEX and DHL are more secured but far costly ,yet they also had made mistakes.
My thoughts.
The Medieval Peasants set is a great idea, well executed. I like the Japanese. A flamethrower and a medium mortar are two things you just don’t see done in Japanese figure sets.
About overseas orders, I got something from the UK about a month ago and it took 2 weeks. That’s sent to the US not Sand Land.
be sure to remind potential customers they will only ship a number of sets minimum,,it took months to to get my refund for one
I mentioned before that you should wait until a dealer in the U.S. gets them and order them then.
I like overall the EXF japanese but many poses are literally repeated copies with minor variation of standard poses overmade by Marx ,Britain,Airfix,TSSD,Austin ,mars and others such LMG advancing firing it from waist ,firing rifle ,kneeling firing rifle ,kneeling with Type 10 grenade discharger ,not a mortar and officer with sword.All then so often made by many makers
Machine gun and mortar team are the only made new as CTS team looks odd made to me and the flamethrower is complete new also plus interesting pose poorly represented by most makers before .
I’m not too impress by the japanese as too many poses are in my other sets ,so i will skip it unless get some of the new poses separated
Peasant true armies are great x many centuries as well plenty possible conversion ,siege machine crew or else .
They are made correct with standart few weapons and farmer tools used as war weapons .well done !!!
my thoughts
Micshaun’s Closet in Tennessee carries ExForce products and I’m sure he’ll eventually have whatever people want. You can call or e-mail him for more specific info. He’s a friendly guy. Ships quickly, no minimum orders, etc., etc.. He’s the one who took over TSSD and carries a wide variety of toy soldiers.
https://micshaunscloset.com/collections/expeditionary-force