Wargmaes Foundry Figures (but oh the postage you guys...)

[paulvonscott]

Havinh just gone to a local wargames event to get some I came back with my preview pack of four figures, alpha, dredd, slaine and mean.  They look much better than I though they did on the photo.

Slaine especially is really nice, quite a whopper with a lovely furry cloak, it's a nice High King Figure, there of course should be more of him (one in McMahon style for a start!).  There is some fantastic detail on him.

Dredd is very nice, a bit too well built and a bit too sour looking, rather than grim.  But the uniform details and everything are superb, liked the mark one lawgiver too.

Mean has a real surly look about him, another figure I didn't like on the photo, but really like him here.  The whole head is very comical and the claw is great, really meaty.

Alpha, dubious about on the picture again, But another darn tootin' good figure, not sure about the studs/spikes on the armour, but he looks good.

So very good, well worth a buy and you could always try and get along to a wargame show where foundry are selling (through a very friendly bloke).

Because as we all know the postage deal for 2000AD fans wanting to buy one pack of figures is FUCKING SHAMEFUL WARGAMES FOUNDRY.  If you are listening you have lost a lot of sutomers through this.  Ah well, some people have no idea.

I would have offered to get some for you guys but I just thought of it this week and have no free cash (or rather credit).

Also I bought an Adolf Hitler Figure, made by Icon so in the future I can play the schicklegruber grab.  He's in full nazi regalia and has a rather camp salute but he's quite fun (for a mass genocidal fiend).

Cheers

PVS

[Ol^ Marbles]

Yeh I picked them up at the 'Salute' show last month - they really are tremendous figures. The postage on them is as you said a disgrace so the only way to pick them up is at shows really.
They are sold as 'preview' packs - given Foundry's recent woes (all/most of their sculpters have left them to set up on their own ,plus they seem to be pricing themselves out of the market - you have to wonder whether any more 2000AD figures will ever be made. A great shame if not.

Link: http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=1090" target="_blank">Foundry's woe's discussion

[paulvonscott]

Really 2.13 is a fair price for these figures, obviously I'd like them cheaper, especially if they want us to buy a lot.  If they could get it down to a quid a figure, they would sell millions, I'd buy armies of norts and southers at that rate.  Maybe if character figures were ?2 and generic stuff a quid.  Sound fair?  Oh and the he Slaine would cost ?5 from Gaymes Wokshop, minimum.  Not that that is a scale to Judge Right and wrong against :)
I suspect if they've tried to emulate GW they will come a cropper eventually.  I suspect GW will come a cropper eventually.

Cheers

Paul

[JimBob]

 at what stage did games Worhshop becoem EVIL. Used to play Paranoia and 40 K as a nipper and White Dwarf was agood read back then , but now GW are like an all conquering corporation probably goiong to jopin Omni Corp. soon.

[paulvonscott]

Me too jim, basically they changed ownership and decided to do little but sell figures in the late eighties early nineties, waved bye-de-bye to all their old fans and ho-de-ho to the real cash.  The games being really an excuse to sell figures.  It's all a bit juvenile now, but they make money, so that justifies killing the british games scene for about ten years.

Basically their shops now are just full of bizarre smiling cultists, i've met a jehovas witness (though i only knew him off duty), he was a nice bloke, these guys just want your money, they'll have your sole if it is tied to your wallet.

Anywayone who wants to argue can just piss off, I'm not interested, their fanatical fans make this place seem normal with their odd devotion to a largely ripped off background (some from AD).

Give it another ten years and Hasbro will own them, they own everyone else.

[JimBob]

 Didn't they publish ganes under licence? I'm sure Paranoia was a Games Wiorkship re issue of a yank game and I think they did a version of Call of Cthulu, although I've mentioned before to avoid thta kids because it rots your brain, I'm off to worship the black god who had a 1000 kids (shub-niggurath not Michael Jackson).

[paulvonscott]

LOL, naughty Jim, yeah they had a license of Call of Cthulhu.  Paranoia was I think licensed from West End Games.  Really it was just the loss of shops and the magazine that was so hard on british rpg.  And of case, great games like Talisman, weren't really suitable for publication as they didn't seel figures in huge amounts (like rpg's).

I'm currently trying to scrape money together to make and sell some card games, the gaming equivelant of a vanity project I suspect.  I'd love to have a company like pre sellout GW.

Ah well, never forget, never forgive...

;)

[nemesis]

Games workshop are evil, i used to work there. Staff can buy character figures for about 50p i bought a whole army of stuff for ?25 and then sold it to my mates for a round of drinks! I quit pretty sharpish. All the rulebooks were like "you need this (?25) before you can get this (?15) and if you want to stand a chance against that, then youll need these (?75)" they totally exploit kids and nick all their pocket money.  

[JimBob]

 I've hated GW ever since when as a young public school boy I went to my dorm drunk on cheap cider and accidentally stood on a 6th formers Land Raider. To say i took a kicking would be an understatement.

[paulvonscott]

Yeah it's all a marketting scam.  If they had everything uo needed in one box and said, well it's going to cost you 500 hundred quid and thats to play the game properly with a few armies, they would be told, quite rightly, to feck off.

It's just a scam.  The games are really incidentally to the HOBBY.  If they sold Scrabble, you'd have to buy all the pieces seperately a C would cost ?3 an A only a ?1 and a Z a massive ?10.

I prey for the day their empire made of lead crumbles, is broken up and sold off as scrap.

[JimBob]

 Say it loud, Brother!

[nemesis]

To stand on a kids land raider is to insult his entire gaming community! if their body odour didnt overwhelm you first could have fed him lead space marines! that'll teach em!

[JimBob]

 I'ld like to run into Land Raider boy again now I'm a grown man. I'ld find a new use foe his multi sided dice that s for sure.

[paulvonscott]

Well it seems the kid was older than him and he got a kicking for it.  Personally that's justification for GW's Nottingham site to be destroyed in controlled explosion.

[2000AD Online]

Ah, but Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe in the eternal soul.