"Sponsoring new figures" Topic

Hi,

Just wondered if anyone had experience of this?

I need, as I'm sure many do, figures that the main manufacturers don't make so I've asked one how much it would be to "sponsor" some to share the development costs.

Anyone else tried this?

Was it expensive?

Good to hear what others have experienced.

Cheers,

Paul

Interesting idea. Will you get your name on their shirts……?

I know someone who did this and it was several hundred per figure.

In what scale and era?
I like to be sponsored, if scale is 15(18)mm or smaller and era is Napoleonic or earlier.. ;-)

Talk to this guy:

murawskiminiatures.com

It's my understanding that he "sponsored" the whole line because he wanted himself some Poles.

If it is only several hundred per figure, perhaps we can do a kickstarter sort of thing? What figures are you looking for, Paul? Personally, I'm wanting some French legere for the Peninsula, I can't imagine I'm the only one.

Chaps,

Good ideas.

More details and perhaps even more clarity!

To be precise my modest starting-point is only to be able to have some 28mm Russian limbers-teams and caissons to match my Front Ranks and Elite Russian artillery.

If all else fails I'll just use my Prussian ones but it does seem a shame.

Cheers,

Paul

Limbers, teams and caissons is quite a big "modest"….

Steve Barber takes commissions; he has great rates and is easy to work with.

His Greek War of Independence range is mostly (all?) commissions, and I've commissioned a few of his samurai.

stevebarbermodels.com

Which raises the question of who you would be sponsoring to do the work, and would they turn out like the Front Rank example you have given. Even some of the more recent Front Rank reinforcement packs themselves are less well-fed than their earlier figures and to my eye don't seamlessly mix in the same unit, although both earlier and later are amongst my favourite figures.

I had a similar issue looking for limbers for my Front Rank Austrian artillery before the Perrys released theirs and ended up contacting Foundry who had some in their back catalogues, which had possibly been originally sculpted by the Perrys anyway. They kindly fished them out and casted them for me at the standard RRP.

As long as the height is roughly the same and they are not in the same unit (and limbers are often a little way back from the artillery line), I am happy to mix and match. I'll probably add a few Perry limbers to my Russian guns over the next year.

I couldn't see myself sponsoring figures that were available in a roughly equivalent line elsewhere, but might consider doing so for unique or "personality" figures.