Ever since Ertl bought Britains then divested it to Tomy and First Gear, they have abandoned the nursery room level toy figure market and reached for the connoisseur level, though not in the King and Country or St. Petersburg league... kind of a low end everyman range of good quality figures. The sculpts are great, but more properly "model" than "toy" soldiers.

      the paintwork is pedestrian, but nice enough. The character figures are brilliant, the vigniettes are nice, but this emphasis on realism and details makes it difficult to build large formations, the genre that classic stylized Britains figures most excelled at. 

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