Minairons: Upcoming SCW Militiawomen

[Lluis of Minairons]

Hi all,

Some time ago we let you know our purpose of widening our Spanish Civil War 1/72 figures range with a new set consisting of Republican Militiawomen. Well, the whole set is already finished. It is to consist in the end of a total of 19 figures in a box - including leading officer, standard bearer, a couple NCOs, thirteen riflewomen and an LMG team - no repeated poses there, all 19 figures are unique.

Here you have captions of all them:


The group commander, closely inspired in the historical character of captain Mika Feldman


The group standard bearer. Up to three female battalions flags to be included in the set


A pistol armed NCO


A second NCO, this one brandishing a Suomi SMG


A running militiawoman in a rather expectable dressing of overalls and gorrillo


Another running militiawoman in a not so expectable dressing of pre-war military uniform, and bare-headed.
Based on the picture of a British (or Irish perhaps?) volunteer girl


A cautiosly advancing militiawoman, whose look is a mix of a couple contemporary pictures.
Please note the Lee Enfield rifle in her hands - not that difficult to find a feature in several militiawomen pictures I've happened to find


Another militiawoman running cautiously, or about to start running perhaps.
She wears a slouch hat as headgear, intendedly of the same type used by the Spanish Foreign Legion in North Africa


This particular figure is inspired in several photos showing women in civilian dress being trained at handling weapons.
Intentionally made to suggest lack of experience


Right the opposite, her most outstanding dressing feature is the sleeveless pullover she wears over the overalls or military dress.
Wholly inspired on one picture of a real militiawoman, except for having replaced the original gorrillo cap by a pasamontañas


Admittedly controversial, this figure is inspired on several pictures found of women in field uniform, helmet included.
I felt tempted to give her an Adrian helmet, but in the end discarded it due to all the pictures found showing Czech or Trubia helmets only


Here, a kneeling firing helmeted girl. Please note the Lee Enfield again








A lot of kneeling, crouching and crawling here, admittedly. I believed such defensive poses a lot more reasonable than charging "à la bayonette"...


A "Dinamitera" girl, cautiously handling her explosives


And last, the 2-girls LMG team. Note the Chauchat MG

The sculptor of this female series, Angel Terol, has taken advantage of this sculpts series for also creating a figure intended to compliment our forthcoming 1/72 scale Frontline Bookmobile kit - either as its librarian or driver, at user's will


As said, this one figure isn't part of the set above, but an accessory to a vehicle model kit

Hope you like them!
Lluís Vilalta
www.minairons.eu

[Jaques]

Hi friend.

Excellent figures.
Very good sculptures, . Just a suggestion:
If possible, prior to mass produce the weapons look like weapons carved into the Strelets figures. In my opinion, would be better if they were proportionate and thinner and more delicate as in previous sets SCW.

Regards.

[Lluis of Minairons]

Hi Jaques,

Don't get any worried by the current look of these rifle greens. Once brought to mould and cast, these will look adequately thinner - I know because that very same visual effect also showed in previous sets... and because some of these girls above have already been cast... and they look lovely!!!

[despertaferro]

Wonderful set!

I think I felt in love of some of these beauties...

How long for them to be available?
And for the Nationalist command set? I have the previous nationalist set waiting for these to complete their ranks and be painted...

Great job, Lluís congratulations for it!

[Jaques]

Hi Lluis.
Many thanks for your reply.
I've done a purchase of Republicans with you and and an nationalists on one of its distributors. I will purchase its outstanding collection of SCW.

Regards.

[Peter]

That is some nice girl power!

[Lluis of Minairons]

How long for them to be available?
And for the Nationalist command set? I have the previous nationalist set waiting for these to complete their ranks and be painted

Hum, let's explain it step by step. As a first approach:

- The Nationalist command set is scheduled for this month, while the Republican Militiawomen for July.

- However, the sculptor making the Nationalists has suffered several serious setbacks lately, including hospitalization of both his father and father-in-law. He's getting unavoidably delayed by such.

- Inversely, the Militiawomen have progressed fast enough for being taken to foundry in the next few days - quite anticipating our forecasts, so that now we're in the issue of having the Nationalists boxes ready, but have no boxart for the Militiawomen yet.

These things do happen often enough (sigh!)

So any of both sets is actually expectable to be released in the next few weeks. But... who knows which one?

[Beano Boy]

Very nice collection of figures. BB

[Yann le Picte]

very nice I wait them.
I hope we can buy it quickly.

Yann

[billk]

All of the poses are magnificent.
So much unique character in each figure!
Bill

[Alex]

Great figures ! Great theme !!
((especially the latter figure (woman - driver) (I also have a similar, but - man)

[PDA]

Beautiful sculpts

[172Fixer]

Great sculpts. I'm really looking forward to these.

[Lluis of Minairons]

As some of you perhaps already know, the precedence quiz explained above is already solved:

Nationalist Command and Weapons have just been released a few days ago (http://www.minairons.eu/en/1-72-scale-figures-spanish-civil-war/412-20mm-nationalist-hq-weapons-8436545320563.html).

On their side, Militiawomen are already being cast, so that I can assure you they'll be released within July - most likely, within the next 10 days. Keep track on them at our blog! http://minairons-news.blogspot.com/

[Mummy]

please make them in plastic please

[Lluis of Minairons]

No cash for such.

Making them in plastic is around 20 times more expensive than in metal. Besides, you need to sell 10 times more for redeeming your starting invest. No way, plainly.

[Bluefalchion]

Fascinating. What are some of the reasons metal figs can be made more cheaply than plastic ones? I love all your SCW line, by the way. Brilliant stuff.

[Lluis of Minairons]

Toolmaking expenses. Hard plastic injection moulds must be made in steel, and they're astronomically expensive - around €9,000.

True that such moulds allow you to inject huge batches of sprues --by the tens or hundreds thousands of them-- at a nearly insignificant cost of some cents each sprue. But injection machines are huge beasts that consume lots of power for generating the high pressures needed to inject the plastic, so that the plastic factory will generally impose you a minimum batch of, let's say, 10,000 sprues.

Just for redeeming such huge invest, you must sell not less than 2,000 those sprues as an average - until then, there would be not even one cent of profit.

White metal manufacturing technology is far more simple and cheap. You only need a batch of between 100 and 200 sets for redeeming completely the invest and starting to earn your first euros - and invest on more projects!

This is why so few companies dare to plunge into hard plastics.

[Bluefalchion]

The research you have done to detetmine the poses and equipment is quite impressive. It is sad for me to think of such women fighting against their own countrymen in that brutal conflict. Also, I wish PSR would branch out into white metal figs. It would be fun to read the rave review these outstanding works would likely generate.

[Beano Boy]

Although not my period for modelling,you have however found an interesting gap in the market place.So I wish you every success. BB