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Offline Paul @ Empress Miniatures

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #165 on: April 01, 2019, 11:59:28 AM »
Received my parcel today, in real the figures look better. Wonderful and full of character. Great work from Paul again.

Excellent news.  ;)

Offline FreakyFenton

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #166 on: April 03, 2019, 08:31:58 PM »
Placed an order  ::)
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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #167 on: April 03, 2019, 08:49:20 PM »
Me too  :D
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Offline Paul Hicks

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #168 on: April 03, 2019, 09:53:14 PM »
Working on the next batch of 8 M16s!

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #169 on: April 03, 2019, 10:00:47 PM »
Working on the next batch of 8 M16s!

Excellent

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #170 on: April 04, 2019, 06:22:04 AM »
Working on the next batch of 8 M16s!

Brilliant!

Will be models with the M14 too?

Offline Paul @ Empress Miniatures

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #171 on: April 04, 2019, 09:12:32 AM »
Brilliant!

Will be models with the M14 too?

Yes but for our earlier USMC range that will be done later.

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #172 on: April 04, 2019, 11:17:01 AM »
Yes but for our earlier USMC range that will be done later.

No problem. I am a very slow painter, thus I will have time to finish painting the chaps with M16s before the M14s are released.  :-*

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #173 on: April 04, 2019, 08:46:18 PM »
Yes but for our earlier USMC range that will be done later.


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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #174 on: April 05, 2019, 03:09:55 AM »

I can die content at last! Early war, 1965 era marines has been a long held dream. Two for the price of one, you can use ‘em for the Dominican Republic.
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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #175 on: April 05, 2019, 05:51:49 AM »
Order placed.  :)
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Offline Paul @ Empress Miniatures

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #176 on: April 05, 2019, 10:00:09 AM »
Thanks guys. We have been pondering the idea that Empress Miniatures should branch away from its usual style of playing its cards completely close to its chest and write a mission statement (I hate that phrase o_o ) about where we plan to take the entire range.

We have a reputation for not doing things by half and we certainly plan to cover off a LOT of the conflict, which when linked to our French Indo China range will pretty much give customers huge options to fight the conflict over a very long period. Obviously many will not wish to dip more than a toe in the water and will wish to only concentrate on one section of the conflict, usually driven by external forces such as books, films, wargames club campaigns, etc.  Whilst the megalomaniacs like me will want everything!!!!

Plus we must be commercial in what we do which when added to the time constraints can make things appear to the outsider to be quite slow. (From inside its controlled mayhem.  lol )

It also allows customers to make their own commercial decisions as our range will be created to be stand alone. Obviously customers will/ may wish to mix manufacturers , as is their desire, but sometimes the simple fact will be that other companies products will just not work due to size issues. For example whilst sorting out vehicle options I am concerned that our traditional 1/50 scale vehicle scale may be just too big. 1/56th is too small so we are considering producing a range of vehicles to fit the figures. Probably somewhere in the middle of those scales. This concern came about when looking at the Corgi Patton which we expected to be perfect but is actually quite big. 1/48 scale will be huge to our mind.

 What do you think?

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #177 on: April 05, 2019, 10:30:28 AM »
My opinion on vehicle scale is to stick with 1/50 scale, partly this is selfish on my part because some of the models I want for other periods and partly because I suspect other customers will also be of a similar mind.

I assume your existing WW2 jeep is 1/50 and that looks fine with your existing post war figures.

Your existing WW2 Jeep with your modern British vehicle crew.


Tanks are big and should dominate the table.

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #178 on: April 05, 2019, 12:10:12 PM »
Cleaned up and based my first squad last night. Gorgeous minis.  Can't wait for more variety to fill out the platoon.

On vehicles I would agree with UVS - I would prefer 1/50th too :)

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Re: Empress - Hue 1968 - First Glimpse of the New Range
« Reply #179 on: April 05, 2019, 12:40:24 PM »
I haven't a real opinion about that apart that 1:48 simply is too big for 28mm.

I've the corgi patton, is beatiful and gorgeous



but it simply doesn't fit to the scale (miniatures are tag's, baker's and some parfield's)