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Why cancel your set? Your products are world class. I have no problems with mixing Strelets and Zvezda Streltsi. I dare say Swedes will be the same. I would agree that the GNW is not the world's most well known war, but to a large degree, the availability of exciting figures can generate sales regardless. I was never going to buy the GNW sets until I saw your artillery of Peter the Great (the grenadier with the small calibre gun resting on his axe).
Besides, the GNW troops are also useful against the Ottoman Empire.
As somone once said, there is always room at the top! In other words,the duplication of subjects already covered may be justifiable if the sculpting and poses are substantially superior to those already available. (I'm still waiting for some satisfactory Greek hoplites...)
strelets please don't cancel the swedish set. we all need it to compliment your other fine swedish infantry set. if zvezda makes one too, so what? their strelets were good, but not as interesting pose wise as the figures in your infantry boxes. i think these sets will make the GNW more popular over time. it's a neglected conflict, like the 7rs. war and franco-prussian, and before Strelets, the crimea.
Each manufacture has their own style and uses. Strelet's will give us some great highly collectbale masterpeaces. Given their past record, I expect Zvezda will give us a similar to better level of detail and usually at a lower price. The sacrifice of course is the number of poses. Then again, there are many, gamers in particular, who want a lot of the same posses. I think there is a market demand for all of the many different approaches to the same subject.
Hello Strelets and forum folks
I, for one, have grown to wait until I see the promised Zvezda sets before I make comment or indeed buy them. mainly because one can never be sure what SCALE they are going to be; a fault shared by their colleagues at Italeri.
Up to now Strelets are tue to scale and that is one praise that is not used often enough.
Perhaps our friends and PSR could confirm this in their next appraisal of Strelets sets.
Best regards
Murach.
p.s. when can I get my 8th and 11th Hussars ?
why revell is re realising escis old germans and british insteed ther own wwII sets ??? reading from PSR i am angrey because i want revells 8th army not escis