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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: Calimero on 05 December 2019, 05:55:25 PM
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Following an incident involving (my very own) human stupidity and a can of spray black primer, I had to "rush prime" a bunch of figures. Amongst those were a little over 24 ACW figures from FG minis 14th Brooklyn and about 78 Iron Brigade figures also from FG range.
This got me thinking about that company and I looked for their page on the Internet only to find out that they were out of business... That was a bad surprise. I know these figures were a little pricey, but, they were really, really nice.
I would like to see them back on sale. I wonder if anyone knows if their molds have been sold to another figures maker? :(
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I have seen elsewhere that some of their molds have been acquired by Warlord Games. Which ones, I am not certain.
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Yes, I was sorry to see them go too. I am not sure why he closed down. I really like his 1806 Prussian range.
Hunlion
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I still kick myself for not purchasing the ACW line before they closed.
The figures were beautiful and the range seemed to be growing in a descent progression.
With a resent purchase of the Iron Brigade consisting of 32 figures from a private seller on ebay, makes me regret not patronizing Forgotten and Glorious even more now, then ever.
Jim
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The company officially went into judicial liquidation a couple of months ago, although it stopped trading a while ago.
I have about two 30-figures regiments' worth of Iron Brigade minis I probably won't do anything with so I can put them up for sale on the Bazaar of Obscurities board if there's any interest in them.
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I have about two 30-figures regiments' worth of Iron Brigade minis I probably won't do anything with so I can put them up for sale on the Bazaar of Obscurities board if there's any interest in them.
As I'm also one of those kicking himself for waiting too long, You could consider me interested ;)
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How far along did the 1806 Prussian range get?
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Off the top of my head, they originally commissioned a full range of infantry figures (musketeers, fusiliers & grenadiers) but were not satisfied with the sculpts. I think they did a very limited production run of these for the handful of people who had declared themselves interested but the miniatures never received a proper release (or so I recall : I didn't follow the whole thing very closely and my recollection may not be 100% correct here).
They then brought Alan Marsh on board to re-do the infantry and add cavalry and artillery. As far as I know, he only got around to doing a very comprehensive range of hussars. There may have been other sculpts but if that was the case, they were never previewed to the best of my knowledge.
As I'm also one of those kicking himself for waiting too long, You could consider me interested ;)
Give me a couple of days to dig up the figures and take a couple of pics of the lot, and I'll put them up on the 'for sale' board either this week-end or early next week.
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I got in on the their initial ACW deal offer (all in frock coats), and was happy with the quality and size of the figures, which mixed pretty well with Perry's and a few Sash & Saber (F&G ones below being the standard bearers and a couple figs on the right) -
(https://i.postimg.cc/MTD2ZMQH/Firing-Line-Cropped.jpg)
I was sorry to hear they closed!
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I am also interested in your offer.
I assume these to be unpainted.
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Done : they're in the 'for sale' section of the Bazaar of Obscurities. PM me if any of you are interested and think the price is right.
The pics were taken with my mobile phone and aren't the greatest but they give you a pretty good idea of the figures' condition. They should look a lot brighter than they do though (believe it or not, the paper I used as a background is bright yellow in real life rather than the dull ochre you get in the pics).
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Did anyone pick up the molds?
Hunlion
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They then brought Alan Marsh on board to re-do the infantry and add cavalry and artillery. As far as I know, he only got around to doing a very comprehensive range of hussars. There may have been other sculpts but if that was the case, they were never previewed to the best of my knowledge.
Give me a couple of days to dig up the figures and take a couple of pics of the lot, and I'll put them up on the 'for sale' board either this week-end or early next week.
Yes! I remember the hussars - very comprehensive, as I recall, with groups doing all sorts of hussary things, not just sabre at rest/being waved about. Can't wait to see the photos.
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Can't wait to see the photos.
I meant the pics of the Iron Brigade figures I put up for sale on the Bazaar of Obscurities board. I never purchased any of the F&G Napoleonic early Prussians due to a lack of interest in this particular sub-period - and also the fact that they never got anything remotely resembling a proper release.
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Ah, merde!
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I have seen elsewhere that some of their molds have been acquired by Warlord Games. Which ones, I am not certain.
In their "12 days of Christmas previews", they talked about new things coming for the ACW period with a small paragraph about the 14th Brooklyn… I hope they’ve acquired the whole F&G molds, not just the 14th Brooklyn.
http://www.warlordgames.com/warlords-12-days-of-christmas-day-twelve/?utm_source=Warlord+Games+Newsletter&utm_campaign=431670621b-Warlord_Games_Bad_Santa_2019%2F20_Last_Chance%21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b7e928b4ed-431670621b-121423494&mc_cid=431670621b&mc_eid=8e549ce623
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I spoke to them briefly about buying the molds, but they were already in discussion with someone else, so I said I would be interested if that deal fell through. I didn't hear any more so I suppose that deal went ahead, and we are just waiting for them to become available again.
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Read somewhere that Warlord are stepping into ACW so reckon Worth keeping an eye on them😉