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Quote:http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/main.asp
Off-topic, but damn, what a horribly designed website!
Love the figures though. 8)
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It is hard to navigate the website. They have some figures I haven't seen anywhere else.
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My own Spartan figures are all Foundry. I used to work for the company, so avoided the sticker-shock aspect of their pricing.
Steve Saleh, who sculpted those figures, has since made a range of earlier-era (C. 500 BCE) Spartans, which were sold through Artizan Designs and most recently through a new company called Gorgon.
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Yeh I agree that their site is a nightmare of colour and boxes to navigate, and I do wish these figure manufacturers would sell figures individually. I think Foundry's figures are great but they are pricey and they sell packs with crap figures you don't want or need. Steve Saleh's work is magnificent and I have seen his other more recent figures for Artizan etc. I think he is doing some for Gripping Beast as well these days isn't he?
I think Wargames Foundry came to recognise some people wanted to buy large groups of more closely related figures (like the way wargames used to be) rather than assembling a rabble of figures in a unit with every guy having a different pose and holding his spear in a different direction. I must be old fashioned but I like my units to be neater and more orderly (allowing for some slight variation). They started producing these unit groups but the figures are not quite as good as the earlier ones often having shields cast as part of the figure.
The obvious additional route to go is to allow for customer selected batches of figures (as long as you required a decent number) whereby we could choose what we wanted. In that way I could ditch all the figures scratching their heads, sitting down, naked, picking their noses, and without helmets and so on!!!
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Or, if there were enough wargamers on here, we could set up a barter system? Some might like the odd ones for scenic purposes, dioramas, etc.