Perry Miniatures Franco Prussian War Three Ups

I've been making a point of not showing packs of miniatures I have bought or pre-releases of ranges to come but the upcoming Perry Miniatures range for the Franco Prussian War has got my blood up! I have wanted to paint, model and game and play the conflict for many years but with the best ranges available being a little out of date for my tastes it was not something I was prepared to jump feet first into; prior to this announcement the most comprehensive was almost certainly the Wargames Foundry Franco Prussian War range, also sculpted by the Perry's.

Knowing full well the level of detail that goes into the Perry sculpts, matched by the level of detail in which they meticulously add detail to the scope of the range is obviously a massive bonus.

Here's what they had to say in their recent Newsletter:

"And now for something completely different...well almost.

As it’s the 150th anniversary,  Michael has started work on a new range of figures, Franco Prussian War
1870-71. The figures shown here are '3 ups' wips for plastic Prussian
and French infantry. We did make figures for this war many years ago
when we started up Wargames Foundry but hopefully the style of the new
ones will be better and they will be a little taller. The idea is to
produce two boxes for each army utilizing the same frames in each box
but with different proportions as we did for the ACW. So one of each
Prussian boxes will be all advancing at trail/marching plus a frame or
two of skirmishers firing/loading etc. The other box will be a box of
firing line/skirmishers with a few moving up in support. The same is
planned for the French. As yet there is no release date as it's still
early on in their production. Most of the figures shown here will need a
little more work done on them. Rifles were made by the talented Rob
Mcfarlane."

 Very tasty stuff indeed! I am very much looking forward to seeing what packs they add to the range. The mind boggles when one thinks of the sheer scope of their Napoleonic and American Civil War ranges!