New 1/72 SCW Nationalist Cavalry

It's already available a new set of Spanish Civil War 20mm figures --this time the Nationalist Cavalry. What we've just released is the first one in a series of 2 sets --this one including 5 regular troopers along with their horses, while the second one will comprise the Cavalry command group. As you can see below, all figures show different, unique poses, as well as horses also do.

You will note that horses haven't been cast each as a whole, but into three parts (left and right halves, and base), so that you can choose whether to build them using their matching halves (each one identified by a number in the inside), or to try combinations of your own instead. Thanks to this trick, it is always possible to join two troopers boxes and still give them a unique appearance, with no repeated horses.

As said above, this novelty is already available from Minairons website --and hopefully from our main distributors and retailers too!

1/72 Moroccan Regulars preview

I'm excited to show you the greens just sculpted by Xan of the next Spanish Civil War infantry set we're going to launch pretty soon, right behind our Nationalist Cavalry (which will be available in the next two weeks, by the way). Such new infantry set will be devoted to the native troops of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco, commonly known as Moroccan Regulars.

The same way as already done with other infantries, this first set is to be composed by thirteen askaris or riflemen and two NCOs, and will be followed by a second one including officers, standard bearer and close support weapons.

This new set of figures will be delivered to foundry next week, just after having picked up the Nationalist cavalrymen I've told you about before --so a clear deadline can be set for these Regulars with little error chances, at about late March or first days of April (Admittedly a bit too tight a date for Salute 2015 --but we can't run faster!).

Some shots on CV-33 tankette

Here below you have some shots on the CV-33 Carro Veloce tankette we're currently designing:

If everything runs smoothly enough, ultimate model will be released at 1/100 and 1/72 scales (more or less altogether) after the Summer parenthesis.

New 1/144 Grumman FF-1/GE-23 fighter

It's already available the 1/144^th scale version of Grumman FF-1/GE-23 - a fighter biplane we had launched at 1/100 some weeks ago. Just as its bigger sister, it consists of 5 resin parts (2 of which are alternative noses) and a few smaller pieces in white metal, such as struts and propellor blades. Cockpit is made of translucent resin too. Boxed set is completed by a decals sheet containing US, British Empire and Spanish Republican markings.

We are proud of this our third Spanish Civil War aircraft, manufactured as said at both 1/144^th and 1/100^th scales. This new model can be found at our website priced at €10.95.

1/56 M1 Armored Car preview

I'm happy to show you some shots of our upcoming Cunningham's M1 Armored Car, that will be our first 1/56 scale model of 2015.

Casting of the ultimate model has already started - as you can see, it will be mostly high quality resin, with a few smaller parts in white metal. We expect to release it before Summer.

UNL-35 Armoured Car preview

Our next 1/72 scale SCW fighting vehicle is now almost ready for release. Here below you have what one of our ultimate UNL-35 armoured cars looks like, once built and painted by Heresy Brush:

Model itself will be made mostly of high quality resin, with only MGs and headlights cast in white metal. It will be released in 2-model boxes --I can't give you a price of it yet, for this depends on some latest hour invoices; anyway, I can reasonably expect it not to be more expensive than our Bilbao AFV.

A first batch of this pretty AFV has already been cast, so that we are now just waiting for box design to be completed and brought to printshop. Therefore, we can assert it will be released next month --that is, March 2015.

20mm Republican AT guns

I'm proud to show you the result of a collaborative work between us and The Plastic Soldier Company consisting of a hard-plastic & white metal combined set, that comprises two Soviet 45mm AT gun sprues along with their Spanish Republican crews.

The new set includes two of such sprues, so that a small 2-gun AT battery can be built from a single box.

As for the accompanying figures, they consist of 6 crewmen and a leading officer, all them unique and different to each other. Figures have been superbly sculpted by Xan as usual.

This is what this our new set looks like once painted and depicted by HeresyBrush. An enviable job indeed, don't you believe?

This 20GEF004 - Republican AT guns set is already available from our website --and it's priced at € 15.95.

Website working fine again

I'm most relieved and happy to let you know that our www.minairons.eu website has just been fully restored at last, with all its main features properly working.

Most important, these good news also include our PayPal payment module, that had ceased to work two weeks ago --due to have become outdated and no longer supported. Such module has been adequately updated folollowing PayPal's own directions, so that it works fine again.

Apologies to all those having had issues during those stressing two weeks!