 Miniatureships  | 19 May 2016 2:26 p.m. PST |
What are your thoughts and opinions about the poll they did as to the favorite manufacturer. I have tired to find opinions about the poll both on their facebook page and their web page, but nada. Just curious as to how others view the poll results. |
| GildasFacit | 19 May 2016 2:40 p.m. PST |
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| IUsedToBeSomeone | 19 May 2016 2:59 p.m. PST |
Seems biased, as you would expect, to the people who advertise the most heavily in WI and have the largest amount of advertorial… Mike |
vagamer63  | 19 May 2016 3:20 p.m. PST |
The responses seem heavily weighted by the large scale plastics, with no break down between sizes like 25mm, 15mm, or 10mm for the manufacturers. A breakdown of the location of respondents would be useful to a degree! So overall the info is pretty much useless for any conclusions to be drawn except a popularity contest! |
| Yesthatphil | 19 May 2016 4:25 p.m. PST |
All of the above. Glossies are pretty irrelevant anyway … Phil |
| B6GOBOS | 19 May 2016 4:26 p.m. PST |
Meaningless to me. My two favorite manufacturers are Fife and Drum and knuckleduster. Neither of which were mentioned. |
| haywire | 19 May 2016 4:52 p.m. PST |
Its bad information. You're polling your readers who buy your magazine for what you are already advertising. |
| Oh Bugger | 19 May 2016 5:11 p.m. PST |
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| nevinsrip | 19 May 2016 8:37 p.m. PST |
Kings Mountain will win once the absentee ballots are tabulated. Other than that….who cares? |
| Green Tiger | 20 May 2016 2:07 a.m. PST |
My thoughts were that this is about as far removed from what I consider to be 'my hobby' as you can get but then I have thought this about Wargames Illustrated for some time. |
| Baccus 6mm | 20 May 2016 2:59 a.m. PST |
The results are also predictably skewed along scale lines. Most people in the hobby use 28mm figures, so companies that make 28mm figures are the most popular. No surprise there. |
| avidgamer | 20 May 2016 3:45 a.m. PST |
Isn't that poll almost 100% British companies? Seems hard to believe it is unbiased. |
| ACWBill | 21 May 2016 2:08 a.m. PST |
Funny, I had subscribed to WI for many years and I do not ever recall the poll or being polled. None the less, the information and companies do seem very Anglo-Centric. I don't really see a problem with this if it is stated up front. As. I don't remember the poll, I cannot say one way or the other whether that is the case. |
| jeffreyw3 | 21 May 2016 5:01 a.m. PST |
As Baccus notes, 28mm figures are popular, and their size helps as well (look at the current sculptor poll on TMP). So I understand the results skewing that way. As for the manufacturers being primarily located in Britain, that doesn't seem particularly surprising either, given the current state of the 28mm market. |
begins to think about terrain for Team Yankee.
