Richard Quantock of Qualiticast sent along a nice letter with his figures explaining his operation. As seems typical with most figure manufacturers this is a one man operation except for designing the figures. Richard says that Brookhurst carries his figures four to a bag or they can be had individually from him. You can obtain a catalog and sample figure (state your range) from Qualiticast, 29 the Quantocks, Flitwick, Beds. MK45 1TG UK for 3 IRCs.

The British are 23mm, Zulu 21mm and the others are 22mm from bottom of foot to eye. These will also fit in very nicely with the plastics, whether or not you could mix these within the same unit with the plastics I'm not sure until they were painted. The individual figure price is a little less than Kennington but will be made up for in the postage as they only ship airmail.

There is certainly more variety here than the plastics with cavalry, artillery, Natal Native Contingent, Frontier Light Horse and in the Zulu figures.

Best of all Richard has a Zulu War Ox Wagon, oxen, driver and supplies to die for. The detail is wonderful, painted and with a black wash you will make out wood grain on anything wood, the detailing is good on the figures and some of the poses are a little static. Nobody has a perfect line. I really like the horses and oxen, they are wonderful energetic. There are not a lot of different poses but the detail on the horses is what makes them. I really like these figures they will enhance any plastic army.

The detail on all the figures is very good and will paint up easily to show the detail. With a good wash will be even better.

This is not an extensive range of figures, but what is here is good and solid. My two favorite figures among the Zulu War figs is the Artillery Officer and the trooper with a lance. I don't get the full range but what's here is very nice and worth adding to your Zulu War.

I also received ACW cavalry mounted and dismounted and Plains Indians and civilians. These are both worth looking closely at if you have a 20mm army. The cavalry is quite good and the civilians could be used for Boers. As I suppose could some of the cavalry in slouch hats.

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