Mr. Gajo's Paint Bench:
Upcoming Releases and Restocks
Many of you have asked me for previews of coming releases, and are generally interested in what we are working on.
This page shows some information on upcoming production, and also some preview shots (where available) of some of the new master figures we are working on. Please remember our production pipeline - these masters will go out to our contract painters upon completion of a batch / set, and will not be available to order for some time. Still, they do give you an idea of how future releases will look.
Coming Summer 2023 -
- 15mm WW2: Romanian Cavalry [NEW!]
- 15mm WW2: Finnish rifles, light infantry, MGs and Mortars [NEW!]
- 15mm WW2: German 15cm guns, FJ with Assault rifles and Volksgrenadiers [NEW!]
Coming Winter 2023 -
- 15mm Napoleonics: Austrian Hussars, restocks with new options, with and without command [NEW!]
- 15mm Napoleonics: Austrians Uhlans, with and without command [NEW!]
Coming Late Fall 2022 -
- 15mm AWI: British Line / green facings, with and without command [NEW!]
- 15mm AWI: Tarleton's Legion Dragoons, with and without command [NEW!]
- 15mm AWI: American Line, British Line[RESTOCK]
The Gajo Scale:
Rating Figure Paint Quality
The GAJO scale was created by George Johnson, and originally developed to assist customers in evaluating used figure collections, back when we bought and sold them. We still use the scale to describe our pre-painted figure offerings.
The Base GAJO Scale - Please note that the GAJO Scale evaluates only the painting quality of the figure. We also note the figure maker, such as Battle Honors or Sash and Saber. The customer should know if they like Essex figures, we rate the painting quality separately from the quality of the figure in bare metal.
The GAJO scale runs from 1 to 10, as follows -
- 1 - bare metal or primed
- 2 - partly painted, metal showing
- 3 - painted, no metal showing
- 4 - basic gaming quality, all areas covered with historical colors
- 5 - nice figures, with some good touches
- 6 - very nice figures, all covered with good color separation, pleasing
- 7 - top quality gaming figures, excellent color separation with highlighting and shading
- 8 to 10 - contest winning quality, generally too pricey for gaming over small scale skirmish
All of our recent production newly painted figure sets are being done to a grade 7. Some of our older sets would have been done to a grade 6.
Plus Grades -
If a figure has some nice touches but is not ready for the next level it can be given a plus, for example a base 5 Roman legionaire with a really nicely painted shield might be rated as a 5+.