| elijahdprophet | 05 Jan 2007 4:08 p.m. PST |
Does anyone have pictures of these miniatures (painted or unpainted) or a review of them? I need to flesh out my Hoplite ranks in WAB and the price is right, unfortunately the pictures on the OG page don't show much. Thanks
EDP |
| Eremite | 05 Jan 2007 4:33 p.m. PST |
Old Glory's offical web site product photos are pitiful. |
| sixthlancers | 05 Jan 2007 4:41 p.m. PST |
However --- they do have photos. |
| ethasgonehome | 06 Jan 2007 12:32 a.m. PST |
And photos taken by a photographic service no less. Proof that a manufacturer can go to the trouble to get photos done and still suffer from whingers. |
| Grelber | 06 Jan 2007 6:58 a.m. PST |
The Old Glory UK website sometimes has photos: link In this particular case, all they have is a photo of Greek archers. Only a few painted figures, but better than some of the photos on the Old Glory US website. Grelber |
aecurtis  | 06 Jan 2007 9:41 a.m. PST |
"And photos taken by a photographic service no less. Proof that a manufacturer can go to the trouble to get photos done and still suffer from whingers." The oldgloryminiatures.com Web site is not owned by the manufacturer, but by a retailer, The assumption that the manufacturer commissioned the photos is… an assumption. That Web site lost a good many previously-viewable images when it was last reorganized, and cannot claim to have routinely added images of new ranges. It has hardly been a comprehensive or consistent effort. To see what a vendor who claims partnership with Old Glory has to offer, look at: link Just a copy of the Old Glory UK's Greek listings, and no images of hoplites. It's not whinging to comment on a fairly lame effort. Allen |
| ethasgonehome | 07 Jan 2007 4:08 p.m. PST |
Allen, As oldgloryminiatures.com is the website given by TMP as the manufacturer's site (Old Glory Corporation), I kind of assumed it was the manufacturer's site, not a retailer's. Ian |
| SergeantSoldier | 09 Mar 2007 5:27 a.m. PST |
Photos sell figures. It is a visual hobby. I'd like to get into 10mm figs, or maybe do some other periods, but this isn't 1975, and I don't have to buy sight unseen. Getting photos up of at least a representative example from every pack will lead to more sales, thereby paying for itself. If you want more of my money, take pictures, even crappy ones, so I can at least get a vague idea of what I'm looking at. Waiting month after month for OG to get around to this project is getting frustrating. I am an OG fan from way back and it hurts me to see this big hole in their business plan that could be patched with a reasonable amount of effort. |
| Akejony | 10 Mar 2007 4:13 a.m. PST |
I will second Sergeant on this one.
I buy a lot of figures (just in case, althought i know i won t ever go into painting them all), when they do attract my eye either on the manufacturer website (Foundry) or on some painters's ones.
So I NEVER purchased any OG figures.
I can vouch the Foundry ancient greeks range is awesome. |
| JJartist | 10 Mar 2007 5:48 p.m. PST |
OG hoplites are average to ok figures. They have thick legs, but the detail is generally good. They seem to be a later period hoplite representation as they have a number of helmet varieties that are more consistent with Hellenistic Greek armies, a sizeable number of them wear a strange conical Boeotian style helmet. They are all in linothorax. The command sets have some models in fitted bronze muscle cuirasses. Here's a link that shows OG hoplites being painted up:
link JeffJ |
| JJartist | 10 Mar 2007 5:53 p.m. PST |
Also these are some Old Glory mixed with Foundry, nicely done by Don Effinger: link |
