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Offline Col.Stone

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« on: 30 January 2008, 02:44:38 PM »
From wargames factory, coming soon
http://theminiaturespage.com/news/81964/

I'm thrilled, been wanting to do ancients for a long time but the amount of figures needed was getting in the way, now i could get nice metals for front rank, leaders, characters and fill up with cheap plastics :)
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Offline Hammers

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Re: 28mm plastic ancients
« Reply #1 on: 30 January 2008, 02:48:04 PM »
Quote from: "Col.Stone"
From wargames factory, coming soon
http://theminiaturespage.com/news/81964/

I'm thrilled, been wanting to do ancients for a long time but the amount of figures needed was getting in the way, now i could get nice metals for front rank, leaders, characters and fill up with cheap plastics :)


Great news. They even look Perry sculpted.
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Offline PeteMurray

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« Reply #2 on: 30 January 2008, 02:53:33 PM »
Those have to be Perry sculpts.

An investor-backed plastics wargaming company. Interesting...
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Offline Lowtardog

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« Reply #3 on: 30 January 2008, 02:55:50 PM »
If you google the investor he is one big honcho :o this is probably pocket money for him
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Offline Prof.Witchheimer

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« Reply #4 on: 30 January 2008, 02:56:47 PM »
no Perry...

"Sculpted by Tim Barry, Art Director and Chief Sculptor"

more here:

http://wargamesfactory.com/workbench.htm
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Offline Ironworker

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« Reply #5 on: 30 January 2008, 03:12:15 PM »
Wow a U.S. company even.  Too bad it's unlikely they will ever do anything related to U.S. history.  Still cool though.
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Offline Torradas

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« Reply #6 on: 30 January 2008, 03:22:29 PM »
I hope they'll have an European distributor... About 20€ for 48 minis? They've got my full atention :)

PS.: Oh no... Yet another period in yet another scale... Piggy Bank is crying... :D
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Offline Col.Stone

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« Reply #7 on: 30 January 2008, 03:26:45 PM »
Fifty4 said they'd be available in europe too, although at that price, i could probably  live with being hit by customs ;)
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« Reply #8 on: 30 January 2008, 03:47:27 PM »
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Wow a U.S. company even.  Too bad it's unlikely they will ever do anything related to U.S. history.  Still cool though.


Well, you are in luck there since the Perry brothers are. They are coming out with a range of plastic ACW miniatures.
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Offline Captain Blood

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« Reply #9 on: 30 January 2008, 07:45:10 PM »
Hmmm... Interesting trend emerging here... Plastic ACWs from Perry, plastic ancients from this mob, plastic WWII from Valiant Miniatures - and all sculpted in the distinctive style of wargames figures...

Did people suddenly realise how GW must be making a fortune selling boxes of a few plastic figures for £15 GBP each... ?   :wink:
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Offline Lowtardog

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« Reply #10 on: 30 January 2008, 08:01:29 PM »
Certainly worth investing in a box or two
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Offline Col.Stone

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« Reply #11 on: 30 January 2008, 09:44:34 PM »
absolutely, worst case scenario, they'll join the ranks of my undead army as zombies..
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Offline Rhoderic

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« Reply #12 on: 30 January 2008, 09:55:50 PM »
Now... how to get them to paint themselves?
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« Reply #13 on: 31 January 2008, 09:05:50 AM »

I was told that the crest shoul be rotated of 45° ... infact it was sculped in this way in ancient "Bas-relief " but in the real it was like this
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Offline pierrebi

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« Reply #14 on: 31 January 2008, 09:06:26 AM »

I was told that the crest shoul be rotated of 45° ... infact it was sculped in this way in ancient "Bas-relief " but in the real it was like this
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