Re: Fav Figs! A question
From: John Crimmins <johncrim@v...>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 18:46:17 -0500
Subject: Re: Fav Figs! A question
At 06:04 PM 3/15/02 -0800, you wrote:
>On a list that I sub to I ran across a query that I think might be of
some
>interest to the group.
>
>Just for public interest, what are your favorite 5 or 6 figure
>makers/suppplies and in what scales?
Reaper: 25/28mm fantasy. Truly beautiful figures, some so nice that I'm
afraid to risk painting them.
GZG: I buy all scales, but 6mm particularly. As a WGI article once
noted,
it's difficult to decide whether you should game with the DSII figs, or
make them into jewelry.
Copplestone: 28mm Science Fiction. Miniatures with character. His
Grenadier UK "Future Warriors" figures are equally good.
Superior: Starships, in some really small scale. Lots of detail, really
nice models -- some of them so big that it's hard to call them
miniatures
with a straight face.
Wargames Foundry: 25/28mm, modern/historical. The prices are a bit
high,
but as with the Copplestone figures these minis are dynamically posed
and
full of character. The Old West/Victorian and the modern/near future
lines
are just fantastic.
Fortress: 28mm and 6mm Science Fiction. Not as well sculpted, for the
most
part, as the companies above...but $10.00 for 12 plastic figures (or 20
plastic tanks) is hard to beat. And their modern zombies paint up
wonderfully well.
I buy lots of other stuff -- not as much as I used to, mind -- but these
are the six that stick out in terms of quality.
John Crimmins
johncrim@voicenet.com