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
) 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.
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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?