Foundry убирает из каталога старые Fantasy фигурки

[Barin]

Получил сегодня в рассылке от Foundry:

(выкинул длинный текст про обновление сайта и желание иметь все модельки в едином стиле)

(Quite) BIG CHANGES COMING AT FOUNDRY

Pre-2006 Fantasy Models

We have a fairly large number of fantasy models in our ranges. My father had quite a few fantasy models made (well, actually over 300 wonderful Orcs and Ogres and Snorklings and Dwarfs and bits sculpted by Kevin Adams and great Elves and Dwarfs by Kevin, Mark Copplestone, Mike Owen and Shane Hoyle). These models were all made before 2006.

My father must have had them sculpted for old times sake!

We have a vast fantasy range, but we sell hardly any of them: regardless of their quality. I suppose that as we are a company known for military miniatures, fantasy is just not what people expect us to be doing.

Foundry's last management reduced the price of our fantasy packs from £12 to £10 to try and get more sales in: but it made no difference.

We have done a proper costing of the earlier fantasy models.

It seems that for the big models which make up the bulk of the older fantasy ranges, we would have to charge closer to £20 a pack, just to break even.

This being the case, we have decided to withdraw all those fantasy models that date from my father's time from our website while we think about things. However, we don't want to leave anyone in the lurch, so we will still supply any models you need to finish your collection or army over the next couple of months: you just need to ring us up.

More Recent Fantasy Models

Some of the new fantasy stuff made more recently between 2006 and 2012 is pretty good.

There's a lot of it, but it's a bit of a random mishmash. We are going to remove all of them from our website and put them up on eBay. The new eBay site is called "FlytesofFantasy". We haven't put much up yet as we are waiting for eBay to go through their technical machinations to increase our selling allowance.

Unreleased Masters

Foundry's last management left us with surprisingly large numbers of masters of unreleased models. We keep finding more of them.

Some of the masters are rather sad: the underlying structure is fine, but the surface detail is quite poor.

The sculptor must have been taking the piss (as we say here in Nottinghamshire).

We plan to hang on to them and use them as training tools for new sculptors. Eventually they will probably be nicely sorted out and will see actual release.

Others will probably be manufactured and put up on the "FlytesofFantasy" eBay site.

We have some very eccentric Steam Punk Orks that we will most likely put into production eventually.

Others (recently discovered Marlburian pikemen for instance, or power armoured science fiction warriors) are of little interest to us, so will probably be auctioned off on eBay. If we do that, we will sell them complete with the rights to manufacture them. This might be the first time manufacturing rights for model soldiers have been sold on eBay.

Старые эльфы, орки и гнумы были действительно классные, жалко, что они либо прыгнут в цене, либо вообще исчезнут. Новые дварфы в общей массе довольно страшненькие, я сейчас заставляю себя их красить ;)

так что если у кого-то есть интерес, то надо брать сейчас....интересно тоже, что они делают расчет исходя из 20 фунтов за три модельки? дороговато как-то, если с GW не сравнивать.

[BigCat]

Нда, протянул я с заказом. Жаль :(

[Sham69]

Пичалька :( Самые офигенные орки и огры у них были

[BigCat]

Гобла пока осталась, надо коляски заказать...

[Алмазный Бретонец]

при обсуждении этой новости иностранцами всплыл вот этот сайт: http://www.foundryfantasy.com/?PHPSESSID=6...aae8a5d11f73fa2

как я понял - это дочерний филиал фаундри и там до сих пор линейка фэнтези выставлена в полном объеме.