HVF Arrives!!!

[lou passejaire]

i 'd love to see a greek companie ( i have some evzone in my unpainted lead pile )

[Sterling Moose]

I'm .................... considering possibilities for making Sleeping Dragon, Rising Sun a bit more 'graphic'

You get my vote.  I like the eye candy so if it means we lose 4 companies from the book I'm good with that.  If the Companies are already written throw them on the blog sans piccies.  I go back and look at piccies in books for inspiration, text on the other hand..........

[Craig]

You get my vote.  I like the eye candy so if it means we lose 4 companies from the book I'm good with that.  If the Companies are already written throw them on the blog sans piccies.  I go back and look at piccies in books for inspiration, text on the other hand..........

Your problem is that authors are cheaper than artists 

[lou passejaire]

Your problem is that authors are cheaper than artists 

but photographers are cheaper than authors , no ?

[Sterling Moose]

but photographers are cheaper than authors , no ?

Nice on Centurion!!

[Craig]

but photographers are cheaper than authors , no ?

But photographers must have something photograph, usually courtesy of Mr Dallimore, who is an artist ... check!

[Sterling Moose]

D'oh!!!

[steharan]

Hurrah, my copy finally arrived, I eagerly tear open to packaging ("Amazon" emblazoned all over it") and leer at the glorious front cover art. My fingers reverently open the first page to gaze at the content within and......

....am rather disappointed to discover that the pages appear to be laser printed on copier paper? Now I am aware that this splendid publication is without images and also in black and white, not an issue as it leaves so much more room for literary content (and the members of this illustrious forum maintain excellent blogs with the requisite eye candy) however I would expect that the pages of said publication would be in line with other works from this rather experienced publisher.

And so my questions are thus:
Am I incorrect in assuming that the pages of HVF would be glossy in nature?
Does anyone else have a copy with matt pages?

Hopefully this does not come across as negative as the cost of HVF vs the content is excellent, the decision by Osprey to commission more content from Messrs Cartmell and Murton laudable and if the price of this is to keep costs down then I shall of course be grateful to all involved.

Pip pip!

[Smith]

The paper stock for all of the HVF copies will (should!) be the same. It is a bit different from most other Osprey books, due to the paper available to the short-run printer, but it's a pretty close counterpart (130gsm matt art instead of 128gsm matt art). If you look at some of the Ospreys printed through our two usual printers, there's a similar variation in the paper stock there as well.

[steharan]

Thanks for the response Phil. My copy of HVF is distinctly different to IHMN in that IHMN is glossy(ish) however HVF is very similar to a heavy laser print paper. I'm not particularly concerned to be honest however I work in Procurement and I was more raising the point to see if there were unknown issues in the supply chain.