GW or other miniature companies

miguel77 · Post by **miguel77** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:25 pm

Just wondering how many many purchase miniatures from other companies for conversion. I know I do as a think it adds oringinality to your team, plus GW miniatures are not the cheapest on the market I personally like Reaver minis particulary for Big Guys

Post by **Dave** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:30 pm

mixture, depending on the team.

for some teams it's quite easy to fit in other manufacturers figs, in other teams it ain't

BunnyPuncher · Post by **BunnyPuncher** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:37 pm

I picked both...

tbh all my figs are GW, but I do use a small novelty cactus fig for my treemen...

nothin quite as intimidating as a cactus giving the peace sign...

darthnoir · Post by **darthnoir** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:30 pm

Love Phils Phigs - I have a couple of converted Divine Wind minis into throwers.

Love the Heresy Minotaur ripping the guy in two (although this really doesn't need much in the way of conversion).

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 1:10 am

I have a Necromantic team thats almost entirely made of non gw figs, mainly Vampire Wars, Ral Partha and Warlord. The only gw pieces are the dire Wolf heads that I used for the werewolves. I'm working on a a Samurai team that is made up of Clan Wars, Reapers and Phigs (as soon as I order them :)I also have a few Heresy figs worked into teams. Love the non GW figs!

Biff Smackwell · Post by **Biff Smackwell** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 1:43 am

I don't buy anything from GW anymore except for primer. I do buy their games, just not their figures. Too expensive for stuff that I think looks ugly.

orcdom · Post by **orcdom** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 3:24 am

mixture of both when i can find decent ones locally.
my wife hates the hobby so i dont get to order many, she gripes enough when i trade, she would really groan if i bought new ones that she knew about.
Steve

KLK · Post by **KLK** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 4:12 am

well, to my is difficult have figures, because we don't have stores that sell figures like in europe or USA, but I have a good collection.

Internet is a goos way(but expensive) to find figures, and when I was living in Englad, I bought lots of different figures.

Now I have figures made by phil bowen, wizards of the coast, heresy, crocodile games, shadowforge, reaper, celtos, confrontation, and ral pharta, all them to play BB and some D&D.

but also I have lots of GW figures. I like their figures, and is easier buy GW stuff on line than other companies.

my teams have a mixtue of figures, and only two of 20 have all the figures from GW.

Colin · Post by **Colin** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 4:21 am

Use a lot of GW figs but do have some from Shadowfordge, Heresy, and Phils Phigs, all great stuff.

TiMuN · Post by **TiMuN** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 10:44 am

May i use this thread just to put you in the track of another miniature seller who is about to start doing some BB miniatures: Corvus Belli

The spanish company has suggested, via the bloodbowlforo.net, they can sculpt some general miniature, and see what impact has in the comunity. If it does the trick, they would like to start doing this in a general basis ..

Currently, there is only this project at bloodbowlforo.net (spanish only), but we will keep you posted.

Norse · Post by **Norse** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:44 am

Keep us updated TiMuN, I'd love to see more BB style minis on the market

Deathwing · Post by **Deathwing** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:57 pm

Chairface wrote:I'm working on a a Samurai team that is made up of Clan Wars, Reapers and Phigs (as soon as I order them :)I also have a few Heresy figs worked into teams. Love the non GW figs!

Have you checked out the Samurai range that the Perry twins do? Some figures perfect for conversions...and the 'Victorious Daimyo and Generals viewing enemy heads box set' would make perfect head coach/reroll counters/turn markers etc.

http://www.perry-miniatures.com/index2.html

Good to know that Corvus Belli are going to do something along our kinda lines...their work looks very high quality indeed...can't post any pics directly cos it's a Flash site...but check out some of the WarCrow Fantasy stuff...really top notch.

http://www.corvusbelli.com/

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 4:53 pm

Deathwing - thank you so much for the Perry Miniatures advice. Those Daiymo figs are sweet. I'm thinking head coach and assisstant coaches. The "Defeated Daimyo committing Hara-Kiri with loyal retainers & discarded armour " http://www.perry-miniatures.com/index2.html is also phenominal. Might be good for when you loose the game. The price is right and they're not taking advantage of you for shipping.

Melifaxis · Post by **Melifaxis** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:12 pm

The ones they are making for Peter Jackson are phenomenal!

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