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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: joroas on April 02, 2010, 09:41:54 AM
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http://theminiaturespage.com/news/6675/
These look good and seem to be convertable to almost anything Hussarish ...............
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Oh they are lovely arnt they :D
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Oh they are lovely arnt they :D
No, they are plastic! >:(
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Oh dear, he's awake and continuing his war on plastic figures............. :'(
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Oh dear, he's awake and continuing his war on plastic figures............. :'(
Let's hope he doesn't have any heating source then ;)
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Oh dear, he's awake and continuing his war on plastic figures............. :'(
Plastic, for children! ;)
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Plastic, for children!
Soft plastic for children and hard plastic for adults! ::)
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Soft plastic for children and hard plastic for adults! ::)
Hard or soft they will still be light light cavalry or in WRG parlance ELC (Extra Light Cavalry) perhaps :D
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Excellent now my Prussian Gas Kommando will have to be made. lol
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No, they are plastic! >:(
No need to be a hater. ;)
I understand, I prefer metal, but at that price and with a students budget they work out just fine for me.
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No, they are plastic! >:(
As a fellow plastiphobe I must confess the Perry brothers have won me over. I bought their WotR box on a whim after seeing Captain Blood's excellent painted examples and they are every bit as good as advertised. I ordered a box of dragoons for Sharp Practice and will likely get a couple boxes of hussars since I can use them with my Eureka French Revolution stuff.
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Regardless, they are good and cheap, with the ability to create lots of units and poses. Maybe, they'll copy Warlord and start doing cheap army boxes....... ::)
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Damned impressive! :-*
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Regardless, they are good and cheap, with the ability to create lots of units and poses. Maybe, they'll copy Warlord and start doing cheap army boxes....... ::)
And, as Phil R says, they truly are "light" cavalry. ;)
Plastic is a godsend if you have to lug armies around to the club or store your figures in the loft. I think metal is best in most ways but for large native armies or cavalry-heavy ones like the ECW, plastic really is better for it's cheapness and lack of weight.
If anyone ever produces plastic Mongols ..... :o ;D 8)
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No need to be a hater. ;)
I understand, I prefer metal, but at that price and with a students budget they work out just fine for me.
They may seem cheaper NOW, but how will you feel when choice is limited and smaller manufacturers of metal figures are forced out of business? Plastic ~ spawn of the devil! >:(
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Plastic ~ spawn of the devil!
Is that the Inquisition I hear, I didn't expect them. :o
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No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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Ohhhh they would be PERFECT if they had included dismounted Hussars as well.
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They may seem cheaper NOW, but how will you feel when choice is limited and smaller manufacturers of metal figures are forced out of business?
Any small manufacturer going into Napoleonics would have a hard time. There will be a niche for filler figures, though, for all the new plastic figure ranges. Renegade are cheap but they're still having a sale, as are Foundry. The new owners of the Minifigs range are still trying to get a £1 a figure.........
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"...a £1 a figure..." Cheap at the price I'd say really. I still think plastics are a bad idea in the long term, but I accept that many or most disagree with me right now. Only the future will tell who is right.
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Like most people of our generation, I began gaming with Airfix, only later graduating on to metals when I started work. If the influx of plastics weans people into new periods or as an alternative to GW, then that has been a success. The market, as it stands, seems to be staying with the old faithfuls of wargaming and is even duplicating itself (British/French Napoleonic and Vikings, for instance). They may well saturate themselves out of a market. We have also seen the rise and fall of prepaints over the last few years. As you say, time will tell.
As for Minifigs, figure quality has moved on a long way since they were fashionable, Perry metal figures, for instance, are about the same price, but differ greatly in appearance