I've never gamed the period myself, but if these figures look any where close to as good "in the flesh" I am going to start looking for some good skirmish rules after GenCon.
very pretty indeed! Great poses for skirmish games, not so much for units. But given the quality of the sculpting, I guess this guy goes for higher value added and smaller production run.
The ruler shown next to a few of them suggests they are about 33mm in height, so a little bigger than standard 28mm. Not sure they will be sized down from there.
They look nice but its also noteworthy that they are probably metal not hard plastic. It's a lot easier to make beautiful stuff in pewter but you also pay for it... $4+ per model. The most impressive thing I've seen in the last year or so of miniatures is that there are suddenly alot of manufacturers making quality hard plastic miniatures.
There's definitely been a breakthrough in hard plastics, eg. with the Perry twins and others moving into plastic Ancients and Napoleonics kits. I guess it's a two way development. Continued rise of the costs of pewter miniatures and the increasing quality of plastics.
GW turned to plastics for their mass production a long time ago, but they have much larger volume (and a hefty price difference between plastic and metal).
So far plastics have only entered in the 28mm ranges, not in 15mm. Strangely enough. Although there is competition from the 1:72 soft plastics, I think high quality hard plastics could do reasonably well there. Although of course 15mm prices are less of a problem than 28mm.
Isn't one of the Perry Twins one-armed because of a cannon accident, yet is so talented he could sculpt a soldier single-handed?
Oh GOD. I'm SO SORRRRY.... That was in bad taste wasn't it? I saw an interview in White Dwarf Magazine once and he likened it to some Dwarf special character who has a steampunk arm that works better than his real one for his job.
I must be thinking of a different set of twins. It was an article about the two guys who sculpted the LOTR line of minis for Games Workshop, one of them had a prosthetic arm that replaced a real one blown away in a Civil War reenactment accident. He was happy though because he sculpts even better with his fake arm.
sorry guys, I was looking for pix of the *real* Perry Twins to see if I could find one to prove Jim's point. When I found the other guys I couldn't pass on the chance
according to the wikipedia article "They look virtually identical, except that Michael lost part of his right arm in 1996, following an accident loading a reproduction cannon during a re-enactment of the Battle of Crécy in France. This was a very serious injury for a right-handed model sculptor and illustrator, but he learned to sculpt and paint with his left hand"