With all due sympathy & respect for the demonstrated enthusiasm regarding your favoured area of interest, but the supposedly felt disregard of ancient themes is not entirely correct.

One of those wonderful friday previews from 4 weeks ago:
http://pub33.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=2833323740&frmid=6&msgid=1061684&cmd=show

Of course, we could argue if the then indicated set complies with ones particular expectations & ancients wishlist.
But to my mind, there‘s no other 1/72 manufacturer that covers such a great variety of periods in a similar comprehensiveness than Strelets. :+1:

Over the last months we witnessed exciting previews of some customary & original WWII & napoleonic sets (the inevitable driving forces in this hobby), but we were also entertained with 3rd Servile War insurgents, early modern period Bashi Bazouks, a WWI camelry stampede & an unprecedented opulence of ACW figures.
I guess it‘s safe to say that we can expect ever more news in the future and looking at Strelets extensive range up to now, it seems most likely that there will be quite some ancient subjects between them. :+1: :smile:

Btw, would love to see more sets regarding Rome & its opponents but also classical Greeks in the current Strelets standard! :wink:

Strelets I am a Nappy fan but in fairness to everybody I think its time for the ancients to have their turn they are the oldest after all.
oh and please make it a Spartacus set if you can they look fantastic:relieved:.

But if there is no ancient to hand, any WW2 figure will do nicely :innocent:

Dear Andy,

for most of the people on the street, this may seem an ancient staff:

Skoda 42cm?

Quite sure you‘ve identified the correct type, Buddy. :+1:
To be more precise, it seems to be the 42cm Autohaubitze M16.
The 42cm Küstenhaubitze (M14, M16 or M17 variants), originally intended to serve as coastal gun, was one of the heaviest & most potent WWI guns in general.
It saw service during the long Battle of Galicia and at the serbian & italian fronts.
At least one surviving gun (one of the few M17 specimen) was utilised by the Wehrmacht during WWII and besieged the Maginot Line, Leningrad & Sevastopol.

Strelets understandably decided to reproduce the model without the round turntable carriage & armored dome of the early M14 variant often depicted on WWI images. Instead they rightly opted for the way more numerous & better moveable M16 version.

The austro-hungarian WWI artillery arsenal will receive considerable heavy & super heavy reinforcements from Strelets.
Hope that both guns will be operated by as many early war austro-hungarian crew as possible?

Once more, I suggest Strelets should consider to produce their artillery kits in hard plastic.
It seems an unfortunate wastage of valuable effort & resources, when the final kits fail to deliver a decent standard of detail and don‘t fit together satisfyingly. :thinking_face:

Anyway, thanks for yet another great friday preview and keep up the good work. :+1: