robert piepenbrink  | 15 Dec 2021 1:38 p.m. PST |
With Christmas approaching, I was attempting to add a piece to the family nativity scene. The clerk informs me that I have a set of 4" Fontanini, and Fontanini no longer supports the 4" scale. Would I like to start over from scratch in 5" scale? It was a sadly familiar conversation. It's just not one I normally have in a religious supply house. (I ordered the elephant from the 5" range. Few people know better than miniature wargamers that trees and elephants tend to be a little underscale in the larger sizes.) |
 Sgt Slag | 15 Dec 2021 2:32 p.m. PST |
Scale creep! It's everywhere, man! Game Over! Game Over, man! LOL! Cheers! |
| HMS Exeter | 15 Dec 2021 2:47 p.m. PST |
Go HARD on ebay to gather in as much 4" as you can. Next November ebay all your 4" and either transition up to 5" or switch to a vendor less likely to play 3 card Nativity. Or just keep your 4", knowing what you have is likely to be all your going to get. I had no idea Nativity Scenes issued updated codexes. |
| jdpintex | 15 Dec 2021 3:20 p.m. PST |
The new codex includes two more kings :) |
| rustymusket | 15 Dec 2021 3:53 p.m. PST |
Do you use more dice for a 5" elephant? |
| 79thPA | 15 Dec 2021 3:54 p.m. PST |
I thought this was going to be about Mark's business. |
| khanscom | 15 Dec 2021 7:13 p.m. PST |
Since it's a diorama, use "forced perspective". |
| Cardinal Ximenez | 15 Dec 2021 7:32 p.m. PST |
The 6" range will have skulls and power armor. |
| jhancock | 15 Dec 2021 9:11 p.m. PST |
Are you allowed to substitute figures from a different manufacturer, or is that not playing cricket? |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 15 Dec 2021 9:43 p.m. PST |
Really? Et tu, Religione Commeate? Absolutely everyone wants to be the next Games Workshop. |
| ZULUPAUL | 16 Dec 2021 3:21 a.m. PST |
It's not scale creep…they are heroic 4" scale. Jeeze get with it! LOL
Paul |
| Tom Reed | 16 Dec 2021 7:27 a.m. PST |
Oh! I though you were talking about the webstore Scale Creep. |
| robert piepenbrink | 16 Dec 2021 3:17 p.m. PST |
jhancock, I wouldn't hesitate if I found something which matched the style and sold individual pieces, but I've had no luck. In fact, Fontanini pretty much owns the market for pieces sold individually. Tom, 79th, I'm not the one who named his company after a phenomenon. (Flashing back to bands with names like "War" and "America." The late 60's and 70's had no redeeming features.) |
| JSchutt | 19 Dec 2021 7:59 a.m. PST |
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