Hat 28mm Bavarians.
Three styles, marching, action, and command. Have to say they look much better to me than some of their earlier efforts, though it's hard to tell with just test shots to look at: Also good someone's finally doing something besides Brits and French... :devil:

Not sure about the searchlights on the sides of their heads in the first sprue :hmm: Or is it a table tennis bat??

look nice - there's some good plastics out there nowadays. Is there a manufacturing reason why soft plastics tend to be slim and proportional sculpts and metal ones aren't or is it just a traditional thing without a real reason ?

I think it depends on how modern your casting equipment is, Perries aren't like that. Anyhoo, these are hard plastic.

GM, it's just that plastic (hard and soft) allows for slimmer limbs which would break in metal.

Well there you are. The Mouse knows more about it than I do, I'm merely a humble devotee of 28mm plastics...

thanks Gung. But what i dont follow is that we make limbs slim and small to enable 6mm, 10mm etc so shouldnt it be possible to make the same in 28mm ? am i being stupid ? (this is the usual answer to most questions i ask)

I fear you have to ask a question abot the casting part, and I don't feel qualified to answer the last bit.

The fashion for unrealistic chunky/'heroic' wargame figures is exactly that - albeit an enduring one (first started to catch on in the late 1970s - personally i blame Trevor Dixon and the blokes at Essex). You can cite any number of reasons for poor anatomy in wargame figures (poor sculpting, personal taste of the sculptor, easier to paint, the fantasy influence, etc. etc.) but the limitations of white metal casting should definitely not be one of them. A good mould maker and caster will be able to consistently produce high quality anatomically correct miniatures in 1/60th/25mm/whatever - toy manufacturers have been doing it since the 19th century after all. Granted some figure manufacturers obviously lack great skill in moulding and even casting. And those Hat figures are very promising - if they do decent cavalry they could be on to a winner.

:clap: I do like the look of these, but I sometimes wonder... Am I the only one who actually doesn't mind chunkier figures in a wargames unit so long as they paint up well? :hmm:

I don't. I like my figures chunkier. To my eyes, they can even look better on the battlefield. And I like painting them.

Detail for me. They can be a little chunky.

I think these guys look thin, I'm much more in favour of the chunky look.

This is clearly a wargamers' product - five different marching poses, sergeants in the command pack, a good set of skirmishing figures. The only criticism would be that they should be in trousers for 1809 onwards, but that aside this is a splendid effort - ice to see Bavarians done at all, let along this well. I would imagine, from the French sets released so far, that one or more separate flank company packs will follow. On a slightly different note - should we be forming a WD3 "chubby chasers" club?