"Perry Miniatures wagon set" Topic
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| Tango01 | 21 Oct 2016 3:42 p.m. PST |
Nice job!
From here
link Amicalement
Armand |
 deadhead  | 25 Oct 2016 11:07 a.m. PST |
Well spotted. Worth reading the text on his website too. Bit of conversion gone into this too. I can sympathise with his comments about flash removal etc, but worth it in the end. This sort of thing gets ignored, obviously, as wargamers are the folk who fund this kind of work, not modellers. Well spotted (grin) Apologies for duplicating below. What is this "message timed out waiting for lock" nonsense anyway? |
| HP2Sport | 31 Oct 2016 11:57 a.m. PST |
That looks great. Shame I find Perry figures too small compared with other brands in 28mm. |
| deadhead | 31 Oct 2016 12:07 p.m. PST |
The challenge is to then work out which companies actually have it "right". Even then, you do see different sculptors' work within some ranges, with vastly different interpretations of what 28mm means to a human being. Perrys have the proportions right, generally,…certainly on the foot figures. Victrix and Warlord mix well with them I think. Front Rank are "hefty" at best. Calpe somewhere in between the two. Foundation tend to be on the small side. Smaller companies show quite a variety eg Westfalia, Gringos40. It is the cannon that get me. Humans do vary in size, but a 28mm 12pdr should be the same whatever….OK, we have all argued what 28mm means in true scale (1/56 works for me) but the dimensions can alter massively. |
| YankeePedlar01 | 02 Nov 2016 3:56 a.m. PST |
I currently have 13 different manufacturers represented in my FRW armies and have found no issue once on the tabletop with units. I have even used some (small) Foundry Austrians in the rear rank of a (large) Trent Miniatures unit. On the table you really don't notice even those. As I said on the blog entry accompanying the wagon, my issue with Perry Miniatures is not so much size as flash and vent runs. I also find they have rather harsh, angular edges compared to the more rounded finish of other like Eureka and Trent, but that may just be my old eyes! |
| deadhead | 02 Nov 2016 5:55 a.m. PST |
With me it is those………. "ejection pins" are they? The spike that sticks out of every giberne edge, the tip of any shabraque and the side of the stirrups and those areas that I only spot when I am trying to paint them. Flash between horses' legs I have learnt to file away. But I am a total Perryphile (please read that carefully) Agree that individual units can easily vary in size. It is mix and match that is the challenge |
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