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Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 10:49 pm
by 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.
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 11:11 pm
by RMD
Zenbadger wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 9:02 pm
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.
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2018 1:25 am
by Etranger
Zenbadger wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 9:02 pm
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.
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2018 7:02 am
by 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?
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2018 7:21 am
by levied troop
goat major wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 10:49 pm
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
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:08 am
by valleyboy
goat major wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 10:49 pm
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
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:27 am
by levied troop
Well I’ll be there next week Kerry if you want to drop me details.
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2018 9:27 am
by RMD
Etranger wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 1:25 am
Zenbadger wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 9:02 pm
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):
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2018 9:40 am
by goat major
levied troop wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:27 am
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
Re: What are people buying?
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2018 9:52 am
by 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.