What are people buying?

[goat major]

Went to Foundry today. Escaped with only paint and some Normans for CB. They've got a lot more painted figures on display now - looks like everything from their website + all the old GW stuff. Very impressive.

[RMD]

Ah, I thought all the new TY infantry was going to be plastic, I didn't realise they were metal. I agree, all the BF metal infantry is crap, worse than peter pig.

Yeah, I think only the Soviet infantry is plastic. My Soviets are Khurasan - I got them just before TY appeared.

Now I come to think of it, the TY East Germans were surprisingly good and flash-free. They were the first Battlefront figures I'd bought in years, so they lulled me into a false sense of security... The Yanks were slightly disappointing and the Cloggies are bloody awful... That'll learn me... Quite a contrast to those exquisite Poles by Oddzial Osmy.

[Etranger]

Ah, I thought all the new TY infantry was going to be plastic, I didn't realise they were metal. I agree, all the BF metal infantry is crap, worse than peter pig.

Their original figures, c2000 or so were good & well cast (eg the original US paras, lovely figures). Unfortunately they went on to produce some frankly alarming looking caricatures, with bizarre body proportions, marked cephalomegaly & wildly out of scale weaponry. Some, eg the British paratroopers look very strange indeed.





Early BF figures, who seem to have joined the French Foreign Legion in Indochina, with a couple of ring ins & head swaps.



Hmmm. I rarely buy their figures now.

[tim.w]

I'm hovering over a box of Warlord plastic Winter Germans but they look heavy on StG44's, which I wouldnt want on my figures. Anyone put these together?

[levied troop]

Went to Foundry today. Escaped with only paint and some Normans for CB. They've got a lot more painted figures on display now - looks like everything from their website + all the old GW stuff. Very impressive.

Nooooooooo! Don’t tell me that! I thought I’d get away without visiting the place before I leave!
Dammmit, just when you think you’re free, they reel you back in

[valleyboy]

Went to Foundry today. Escaped with only paint and some Normans for CB. They've got a lot more painted figures on display now - looks like everything from their website + all the old GW stuff. Very impressive.

When you go next time Simon would you drop me a PM beforehand
There were so many figures not on the website that seem available at the store- would like a pack or two of French Napoleonic command in 28mm that would be suitable for cavalry commanders

[levied troop]

Well I’ll be there next week Kerry if you want to drop me details.

[RMD]

Ah, I thought all the new TY infantry was going to be plastic, I didn't realise they were metal. I agree, all the BF metal infantry is crap, worse than peter pig.

Their original figures, c2000 or so were good & well cast (eg the original US paras, lovely figures). Unfortunately they went on to produce some frankly alarming looking caricatures, with bizarre body proportions, marked cephalomegaly & wildly out of scale weaponry. Some, eg the British paratroopers look very strange indeed.





Early BF figures, who seem to have joined the French Foreign Legion in Indochina, with a couple of ring ins & head swaps.



Hmmm. I rarely buy their figures now.

To be fair, there's nothing at all wrong with the sculpting and proportions on these. Just horrible casting. Here are the East Germans and Yanks - very nice models (especially the Germans):

[goat major]

Well I’ll be there next week Kerry if you want to drop me details.

Your resistance crumbled almost immediately then

Happy to help as well Kerry. It might be worth dropping them an email - I've got the impression from them that they seem willing to cast up almost anything on demand from their back catalogue so long as you know what you are looking for

[FreddBloggs]

I have to admit I have given up on Foundry, they used to do a range of quite beautiful Trojan wars, looked at the packs on the stand at shows and the sculpts are fine, the casting of them is worse than Perries. So at the price, I declined.