If Hat change the plastic of old set I surely will buy some of them, the soft rubbery plastic really repel me from Hat set.
some 12 years ago I bought Hat napoleonic russian artillery (replaced by some far superior zvezda set in my army)and the plastic was really hard, a good one to work with, but since then it changed several time and the new one still no give me satisfaction.
Maybe one day I will be able to buy more 1812 french infantry, the mold and sculpting is good if we except the wrong quality of plastic.