I am confident that I don't really need to say this, but I detest the modern trend started by Wargames Foundry of putting figures into blisters for sale. I look back nostalgically to The Lost Golden Age of buying figures individually to suit the look of units in MY armies. This is pertinent to my most recent efforts with the Brush of Doom in that I wanted specific figures for my Early Saxon Sub-General bases from Gripping Beast but of course they are either sold in blisters of Characters or at inflated prices in Saga packaging. The result is that I'm left with these figures: a blind Seer and a rather over enthusiastic minstrel/bard! Neither of which I have much use for in Hail Caesar games, but there you go have figures, will paint! My maxim of waste not, want not gets me again! Anyway, blathering on done with, here they be ~
The Blind Seer and guiding boy are just right for Dark Age/Fantasy games I'd say, so may get out in The Saga of Bicca Biccasson, if I can persuade anyone to give it a go that is. The other figure, well, it's a nice table filler, I'll give it that. Moving on, next up enduring their rite of passage under said brush are three 1st Corps figures suitable to populating a Sub-General base for my Arthurians. After those are completed I plan to move on to an Arthurian infantry unit which I'd hope to complete by the coming of Spring...at last!
Bostin!
ReplyDeleteI thank you, man of few words!
Deletelovely painted figures!
ReplyDeleteThank you Phil!
DeleteGreat work on minis, David!
ReplyDeleteMuch appreciated Michal!
DeleteNice work David and somewhere in my pile of shame I have those two figures, picked up secondhand and not in blisters 😉
ReplyDeleteIt defeats me where you find all these cheap figures Matt.
DeleteTotally agree about the blister packs. I remember going to Salute at Kensington, Foundry had all their figures boxed singularly and you could pick out exactly how many of each figure you needed. Think they were around 40p each!!
ReplyDeleteGreat figures though, David!
A true Golden Age boogared by useless bean counters!
DeleteI fondly remember going into the Old Soldier shop in Cambridge back in the 1970's where you could buy the individual figures as required, plus you could look at them before hand:).
ReplyDeleteAnyway, lovely work on these spare figures, which I could see being used to add command bonuses to your troops (the Seer) or to annoy the Hell out of the opposition (the Bard), or simply to decorate the table:).
I shall take note of your suggestions SteveJ!
DeleteWell done on being completist rather than wasteful. I fully agree about buying individual figures. It's even more the case with SciFi and Fantasy where the prices are even higher. There are sets of 8-10 where I'd like 1 or 2 and have no use for 3 or 4 e.g. Infinity. The good news is I don't buy any and do without some excellent figures buried in useless 'sets', often aimed at games I won't play. With historicals it's a case of maths - the number of blister multiplied by the number neeeded for a unit - how many blisters to have X units with no leftovers.
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We seem to be of a similar mind on this issue Stephen.
DeleteLooking just great David! I agree I wish we could buy figures individually although you can buy quite a bit of Front Rank individually or at least online you can.
ReplyDeleteAnother fellow traveller, thanks Christopher!
DeleteI agree, Front Rank being one of the main last bastions of individually sold quality figures, but alas I was shocked as I stood aghast seeing the appearance of Front Rank blister packs at Hammerhead! No doubt this will become the norm' in time...Thanks GB!! With the price of figures now, surely they should "all" be sold individually??
ReplyDelete(That's my contribution from a moaning old pensioner) 😉 Nice figures by the way Dave! Great work!!
As I've said earlier, Blister Packs the tool of the devil. All part of the rip off retail culture!
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