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Midaski:
We've sort of had this discussion spread over lots of threads, but I have a couple of questions about some minis from other manufacturers.
I have kept a long list of manufacturers in my Favourites links, and lately have been surfing through the list, seeing what's new, and updating it.
Basically I am doing a 'Mathi' :icon_wink: and considering other armies. However unlike some members I have no desire to disappear off to another race to build a new army, instead I look at other themed Empire armies.
For some time now I have been collecting minis for an Estalian Conquistador army, and I am tempted at the moment by Asian/Far East models.
So ..............
I am quite impressed with Perry Miniatures
http://www.perry-miniatures.com/index2.html
and I've been looking at their ECW stuff, the Muslim Armies, and the Korean and Samurai.
Are they all plastic?
The prices seem pretty good - Price 'A' is £6 sometimes for 6 minis.
These people do some very very cheap plastics, but has anyone got or seen their metal stuff?
http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/Oriental_Blades__unpainted_.html
Lastly TAG or The Assault Group
http://www.theassaultgroup.co.uk/store/home.php
They do loads of ranges - anyone bought their minis?
Spanish (Conquistadors), Cossacks, & Medieval Asia Mongols & Others?
If you want to develop this further with other manufacturers, then please do .......... of course after my questions have been answered
It could provide info to revive/update the 'Links' sticky in the Imperial Office
Inarticulate:
Most Perry stuff is metal I believe. Only the boxed sets are plastic.
www.warlordgames.co.uk
Lots of awesome ECW stuff.
ZeroTwentythree:
As Inarticulate said, most of the Perry stuff is metal. But as we discussed in another thread, they've got plastic Wars of the Roses figures coming out soon, which gets a big :-D from me.
I think you may already be familiar with most of these, but just for the sake of mentioning it and collecting references...
I think you've seen elsewhere that I'm a big fan of the Front Rank Wars of the Roses range, as well. I use them for both Empire & DoW figures. As much as I'm a fan of the puff & slash landsknecht style, I've also become increasingly fond of doing a "historical Empire" army from the past, before the puff & slash. Sort of like they were portrayed in earlier editions of the game. Along those lines, some of the Crusader Miniatures WotR range are good. The cavalry fit better with WFB and Front Rank figures, though -- the infantry are well sculpted but thinner and more "realistic" looking.
Foundry is good, if somewhat expensive if you live outside of the UK. But in addition to their landsknecht range, they also have conquistadors & Elizabethans. Not only that, but they have a small number of orcs & dwarfs in costume of that period as well. Maybe something to use as DoW (dwarfs, Rudluds, etc) in an Estalian themed army.
Then, of course, there's the Black Scorpion's human, orc, gobbo and dwarf pirates.
Black Hat has more orcs, dwarfs, gobbos, etc. in a sort of Elizabethan/pirate theme.
Vendel Miniatures' fantasy figures are more dark ages themed, but they have a small range of Elizabethans (including their Irish & Border Rievers ranges.) A lot of the English are wearing morions and could probably pass for Estalians. I'm very curious to see these figures in person. They look great (and tempting!) on the web page.
There's also Old Glory, for a variety of historical figures. Plus I think at one point they carried various "dwarf wars" figures (Or were they by Blue Moon?) that were themed to different historical armies.
If you want ECW, in addition to the plastics from Warlord, mentioned by Inarticulate, there are also some great sales/deals at Renegade. Their figures are bit bulkier and closer to GW scale (if not bigger!).
http://www.perry-miniatures.com/
http://www.crusaderminiatures.com/
http://www.frontrank.com/
http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/
http://www.blackscorpionminiatures.com/
http://www.blackhat.co.uk/shattered_isles/index.php
http://vendelminiatures.co.uk/
http://www.oldglory25s.com
http://www.renegademiniatures.com/
Midaski:
Oh I already have Foundry & Vendel stuff. The Vendel models are plain but nice, and good value.
I plan on mixing them all up with the old GW Estalians, Pirazzo's, and some other odds and ends I have like these:
http://www.monolithdesigns.co.uk/borderreivers.htm
again pretty plain and nearer 30mm, but the odd one mixed in is fine.
...... and I have the pike and shotte boxes from Warlord, but they are a bit small and the hand weapons are tiny. They need to be in a unit of their own - they will not mix well with the above.
Going back to Perry, I thought metal, but some of the unpainted pics look quite 'grey' like plastic, and they show banner sets in a similar grey that look 'very' plastic.
Siberius:
You know, I happened upon the Dwarf forum the other day (I was looking for nice piccies of cool minis) and they have a really nicely laid out 'other manufacturer' section and I couldn't help but thinking that we should really have something like that too.
It had clear pictures, links to websites and a lot of information on scale comparisons, range size, pricing and all. I was impressed.
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