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Post by paddy649 on Sept 17, 2018 22:24:10 GMT
Let’s look on the bright side. If it means that Colnel Bills will stock Black Hat then it is a win-win! That's the intention. But it will take time to organise items for sale at Colonel Bill's. Great! Colonel Bill already takes the majority of my hard earned cash at shows. Might as well make it a one stop shop! Nice bloke, good banter, stocks the figures I like......‘nuff said. If he fan give me a Gladiator fix as well then that is a bonus. Paddy
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Post by goragrad on Sept 19, 2018 15:26:23 GMT
Looked over the anticipated price increase at Scale Creep while checking on an order and they are are not too bad.
Not fond of dealing with pewter when cleaning up flash, etc., but that is pretty much standard these days.
Hopefully things go well for Fighting 15s and the Gladiator miniature lines.
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Post by davidjconstable on Sept 20, 2018 7:32:20 GMT
Looked over the anticipated price increase at Scale Creep while checking on an order and they are are not too bad. Not fond of dealing with pewter when cleaning up flash, etc., but that is pretty much standard these days. Hopefully things go well for Fighting 15s and the Gladiator miniature lines. Pewter is not that bad, and is safer than lead.
You should have tried the Polish figures made in aluminium, positively dangerous, Fighting 15s changed these luckily.
David Constable
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Post by matakakea on Sept 20, 2018 15:37:14 GMT
On a purely selfish note, are there any plans to complete the Martian Empires range? I'm thinking about the French range, and the Revolver Cannon for the Prussians.
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Post by spartan on Sept 22, 2018 16:45:33 GMT
I hope so as feel as have been waiting for French forever. However please get the original sculptor!! Oh and any word of the Martian airships?
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Post by goragrad on Sept 28, 2018 10:18:29 GMT
Actually, david I have some of those Polish figures buried in the queue (in part for that reason).
Considering the significant increase in hardness with pewter such that it requires filing or power grinding with the associated small particles (some intermediate Minifigs were very flashy and hard), i feel less of a health threat from flakes of lead I can shave off.
I also have seen more gaps in older figures now being cast in pewter.
As to Black Hat/Gladiator, the minis I just got are already cast in pewter, so no real change.
What would be really nice is if Fighting 15s could get Josef Ochmann to come back and redo some of the lines he didn't originally sculpt for Metal Magic. Quite a bit of scale creep there and just not as fine.
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Post by fighting15s on Dec 5, 2018 7:59:27 GMT
On a purely selfish note, are there any plans to complete the Martian Empires range? I'm thinking about the French range, and the Revolver Cannon for the Prussians. I inherited the rudiments of the French range, including a new walker and the basic infantry. Mike had done a master mould, but because it slips in the casting machine and doesn’t have the legs for the walker, I remade it. So I have a small pile of production masters that need cleaning up. However, I am currently in full Christmas order mode, so not much is happening on the new Martian Empires figures at present. Among the masters were the British Home Service cavalry, which I have also put in the master mould. There is also a small pile of production masters for them too. The short of it, however, is that there is still quite a lot of sculpting to get done for the French, but fortunately I am able to pick Mike’s brains as to what he intended.
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Post by fighting15s on Dec 5, 2018 8:14:20 GMT
Actually, david I have some of those Polish figures buried in the queue (in part for that reason). Considering the significant increase in hardness with pewter such that it requires filing or power grinding with the associated small particles (some intermediate Minifigs were very flashy and hard), i feel less of a health threat from flakes of lead I can shave off. I also have seen more gaps in older figures now being cast in pewter. As to Black Hat/Gladiator, the minis I just got are already cast in pewter, so no real change. What would be really nice is if Fighting 15s could get Josef Ochmann to come back and redo some of the lines he didn't originally sculpt for Metal Magic. Quite a bit of scale creep there and just not as fine. From my point of view, I’d rather work with a pot of lead-free metal, and for figures going out via retail (Scale Creep, Colonel Bill’s) there’s less exposure to legal risks, especially from the US. I don’t find pewter particularly difficult to clean up with files, which of course I have to do on the production masters. Mike would still cast trickier figures in tin-lead, but I’ve moved totally to pewter. It does make some figures trickier to cast, but not impossible to cast. I am remaking moulds of particularly awkward to cast figures. 🙂 As Josef has retired, it’s most unlikely he would resculpt ranges.
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Post by cgothicus on Dec 9, 2018 17:56:00 GMT
Would somebody be kind enough to tell me what the cavalry figure photographed next to the Gladiator logo earlier in this thread is? Is it a 15 mm figure of some sort? Late Roman, Gothic? Cannot seem to find it on Fighting 15's web site. Looks rather good.
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Post by Les1964 on Dec 9, 2018 18:40:05 GMT
Would somebody be kind enough to tell me what the cavalry figure photographed next to the Gladiator logo earlier in this thread is? Is it a 15 mm figure of some sort? Late Roman, Gothic? Cannot seem to find it on Fighting 15's web site. Looks rather good. AN001 MOUNTED COMMAND www.fighting15sshop.co.uk/an001-mounted-command-16119-p.asp
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Post by martin on Dec 10, 2018 0:21:01 GMT
Would somebody be kind enough to tell me what the cavalry figure photographed next to the Gladiator logo earlier in this thread is? Is it a 15 mm figure of some sort? Late Roman, Gothic? Cannot seem to find it on Fighting 15's web site. Looks rather good. The one brandishing a sword, next to the logo posted earlier, looks possibly Hunnic (?), judging by the bowcase and helmet style. Martin (Unable to check at the mo, cos website blocked from my current location ☹️ )
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Post by Peter Feinler on Dec 10, 2018 2:46:31 GMT
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Post by fighting15s on Dec 10, 2018 8:14:34 GMT
Would somebody be kind enough to tell me what the cavalry figure photographed next to the Gladiator logo earlier in this thread is? Is it a 15 mm figure of some sort? Late Roman, Gothic? Cannot seem to find it on Fighting 15's web site. Looks rather good. As everyone says, it is from AN001 - the Asiatic Nomad command pack (i.e. Huns). It is from the original Hobby Products range and the new picture shows both how inadequate the original pictures from 2002 are and just how good Josef Ochmann’s sculpts are. Although I intend to redo all the pics, I have yet to start on this mammoth task: I have to cast the figures first. Mike also always meant to redo the pics, but never had time because he was so busy.
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Post by cgothicus on Dec 10, 2018 19:17:54 GMT
Thank you to all those who responded to my request. As noted above you would not realise the figure was so good from the original photograph.
Best wishes to Fighting 15's, some excellent figures in their ranges well worth a look!
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Post by matakakea on Dec 12, 2018 14:45:50 GMT
On a purely selfish note, are there any plans to complete the Martian Empires range? I'm thinking about the French range, and the Revolver Cannon for the Prussians. I inherited the rudiments of the French range, including a new walker and the basic infantry. Mike had done a master mould, but because it slips in the casting machine and doesn’t have the legs for the walker, I remade it. So I have a small pile of production masters that need cleaning up. However, I am currently in full Christmas order mode, so not much is happening on the new Martian Empires figures at present. Among the masters were the British Home Service cavalry, which I have also put in the master mould. There is also a small pile of production masters for them too. The short of it, however, is that there is still quite a lot of sculpting to get done for the French, but fortunately I am able to pick Mike’s brains as to what he intended. Okay, I'll leave off the nagging until the end of January
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