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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Poliorketes on July 26, 2007, 08:12:35 PM
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Great Collection, I fear a must have for Gloire!
http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/SYW/14/index.asp
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:o :o :o :o Cool I can see my Woodland Indians raiding these civilians :mrgreen:
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They're not in period for my swashbuckling setting, but I'd love to have a few select packs of them anyway.
I won't get them, though. I'm not in an economic position to buy Foundry miniatures willy-nilly :(
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They are lovely but pricey I think I will have to look else where
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Very nice. But yes, Foundry are dashed expensive. There again, you get what you pay for. I've often toyed with adding the Old Glory Fat Island Governers to my ever expanding pirates collection, but having seen these from Foundry, I think some of these gentry will do rather better.
Actually, I think (without false modesty) this little range may be my idea, because I certainly wrote to Bryan Ansell back in 2000 with a few detailed suggestions for new ranges - one of which was for a C17th 'crime and punishment' range - highwaymen, smugglers, harlots, militia, footpads, wreckers, excise men, press gangs, etc etc. And this certainly looks like part of it! (Wait to see if a second release of excise men, wreckers and a press gang follow, and you'll know I'm right!)
Interestingly, at the time, I got a phonecall from Bryan - which I missed and I never followed up on! Bum! Maybe he was offering me a job :mrgreen:
Anyway - Bryan - if you're listening, and this lot was based on the idea I sent you, then drop me a few free packs in the post would you? :wink:
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I was excited when I read the newsletter today, too.
Some of the packs are a "must-have".
Yes, they are expensive.
But on the other hand, if we all stop buying Foundry figs Bryan Ansell will starve to death. :cry:
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I saw these on the Foundry site yesterday and I very nearly posted a link here, but as I haven't been round much lately I sort of assumed they weren't all that new and someone else had already posted about them.
:roll:
Oh well, never mind that - I LOVE the smugglers! I really hope Captain Blood is right and they follow them with excise men, wreckers and a press gang!
:love: :love: :love:
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But on the other hand, if we all stop buying Foundry figs Bryan Ansell will starve to death. :cry:
There are forums out there where many would consider that a good thing :roll:
For my part, I'm a student, so probably in a worse position to afford Foundry than most in this forum. I did get one of those 20% discount offers in my e-mail, though. I have 'til the end of the month to use it and I'm seriously considering doing just that. Mr Ansell's whole business strategy seems to be repeatedly whipping up this kind of "buy now and buy plenty" frenzies, which I sort of resent, but the quality of the miniatures speaks for itself. But then again, I might as well wait for next time I get one of these offers. The way Foundry does business, I'm sure I'll get another one sooner or later.
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Is it just me, or do many of them look like dark elves? I still may give in and grab some of the civvies to victimise. I have more than enough villains.
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Some are very nice and some are a little odd looking, but overall a very nice batch of figures. I particularly like the two armed thugs in the smugglers pack:)
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I will get me some because I simply need civilians unless someone hassome nice links to beter/cheaper civilians?
These do look fine to me though.
G.
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Geboom, You could try Westwind in their Gothic Horror, Sleepy Hollow range they have a pack of villagers and some town elders, or Front Rank figures have some C18th civilains, about 15 - 20 figures. :)
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Geboom, Eureka miniatures has some good civilians and thugs in it's civilian range. The criminals and comic thugs are quite good. I haven't seen the 18th century civilians in the lead yet though.
http://eurekamin.com.au/index.php?cPath=87_126_138
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Parkfield Miniatures has a Rogues and Vagabonds range of figures including a number of smugglers and revenue men. The Napoleonic Peninsular range includes some naval landing party figures which can also be used with the revenue men.
http://www.parkfieldminiatures.freeservers.com/SMUGGLERS.htm
Simon
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If you get civilians from Eureka, don't forget they also sell some plantation peasants that don't appear in the webstore (you'll have to contact them directly about it). Pictures here: http://www.chronofus.net/wargames/eureka/100club/1700s/index.htm
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Thanks for the input.
I think I will go for a few Foundry ones so I can fill my future streets with nice townfolk.
Greetings
Geboom
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I will get me some because I simply need civilians unless someone hassome nice links to beter/cheaper civilians?
These do look fine to me though.G.
Look at the Blue Moon box set of American colonial civillian figures. Old Glory distributes those but they are not in stock right now. I have a set and they are nice. The figures are tall and slim, so could provide a nice counterpoint to more bulky civilians such as the Foundry ones.
Old Glory has a pack in it's Pirate line (under historical-1600s/1700s-pirates) of a governor and his creapy assistants. This is a good pack which I have seen painted up nicely. There is also a pack of victims, but that pack has 15 figures in only 5 poses, so maybe too much duplication unless you split the pack with two other painters. There is also a pack of rioting civilians in the pirate line with things like pitchforks and axes, but there is some duplication in that pack also.
I haven't done a cruise through Old Glory's offerings in other lines such as the English Civil War or French and Indian War or American War of Independence. There might be some useful civilian figures in there somewhere. Some of these lines have a set of artilery limbers with drivers which vary depending on the period. The ones for ECW are dressed differently than the ones for Marlborough's Wars for example. So you could modify those limbers with drivers to be carts going through town or country. There are also some nice wagons in the Napoleonic line that would look good in the town or country with your civilians.
As Malamute already said, the Sleepy Hollow packs in one of the fantasy horror lines on the Old Glory site also have some useful civilian figures. I mention them again because I bought them and I like them a lot. In fact, there are other useful civilian figures scattered through the fantasy horror lines at Old Glory (Westwind).
I mention Old Glory because the figures are cheap when you have one of those army cards with the 40% discount, sometimes as low as $1 per figure. I'm not saying that they are better. Certainly they are a cut below the Foundry figures.
I have some townfolk packs from Reaper that are mostly useable for 17th and 18th Century in a pirate town fantasy sort of way. However, Reaper is even more expensive than Foundry on a per figure basis.
But there's no reason you shouldn't buy the Foundry 18th Century Civilians Collection too. Just wait until there is another 20% or 25% off sale.
Warren :mrgreen: