Quote from: FierceKitty on 09 May 2010, 03:05:19 PM
   Hate me if you want to.

Too much trouble.

Just leave our Americans friends alone, and let's agree to disagree about the rest of your post.

Cheers,
Aart

Finally another vote for baroque gnomes!

Quote from: FierceKitty on 09 May 2010, 03:05:19 PM
I'm not underestimating the work involved, and I know makers need to make a profit. But this is also true of the blown-glass ornamental animals business; still no use to me. I'm disappointed at the lack of various fascinating figures that have been requested by various enthusiasts, and frankly by the repetitive nature of some gamers' interests. I can't avoid the feeling that the endless calls for yet more little 20th century gnomes in battledress or yet more Napoleonics are the result of a lack of imagination or effort on the part of many gamers (rather like the way certain types of Americans on holiday in Italy or Japan can be heard bleating about the difficulty of finding a hamburger, or the way every concert of baroque music seems to feel obliged to include the Four Seasons). There's SOOOOO much more out there, and I wish gamers would give producers a bit more incentive to make it.
   Hate me if you want to.

I understand what you're saying, but we have to concentrate on what is going to be financially beneficial, and then do the more unique requests when we can.  The South American Pacific War is a good example of that, where it's never going to be a huge seller, but it was a bit different and we wanted to do it. 

Some of the requests we've had on the Forum have piqued our interest, and we'll try and fit them in where we can, but it is always going to be a long process.  From deciding to do a figure, to putting it on the website, can take anything from 3 months to a year.  We've got some more requested stuff in the pipeline, but like I said before, the Forum is only 2 months old, and we've got to fit these new requests into what we've already got scheduled.

So for the time being, our focus will be on the items that have the most votes, and we'll try and fit the more random things in around those.

 

Dave/Leon/Lynne are more likely to go for something if it gets plenty of votes on here.

So if you've got a particular interest the best plan would probably be to get all your mates to join and support your request.

Matt

Damn you mean me repeatedly asking for AWI generals only counts as one vote ? 

Quote from: goat major on 09 May 2010, 06:14:31 PM
Damn you mean me repeatedly asking for AWI generals only counts as one vote ? 

Haha!  Unfortunately so!   

You'll be glad to hear that Clib's gonna be working on these pretty soon.

Greetings

I'd far prefer Pendraken to produce excellent figures that people buy and add more eclectic items when they can than cater to a lot of niche tastes and disappear  .

I'm in the process of painting some Pendraken SYW Prussians as SYW Brunswickers (v Imhoff's regiment) and admiring the latest Battlegames teaser, so I may well buy more - as well as some 20th century.

Regards

Edwaard

Quote from: Leon on 09 May 2010, 12:49:36 AM
and next month we're looking at another 20-ish hopefully.

All of them more SCW? 

Quote from: cfeicht on 09 May 2010, 09:22:12 PM
All of them more SCW? 

No SCW this time, there might be a vehicle or two but it will depend on the designer.

Mate!!! youve got to love FierceKitty- bless! Maybe he could suggest a few things that would 'sell' and get peoples imaginations going.
Please dont diss my requests for boring old Napoleonics - have you seen other ranges out there!? it is a tundra.

I am not into SCW WW1 WW2 but come off it man you can't moan about the amount of releases- I only wish I did do WW2 - I would be happy happy days ( although those chaps are spoilt for choice in this period- lucky B#####s)

Naaaaa keep it up and ignore the negatives - your bag baby (meeow) 

Quote from: 17-21l on 10 May 2010, 02:59:08 PM
Mate!!! youve got to love FierceKitty- bless! Maybe he could suggest a few things that would 'sell' and get peoples imaginations going.
Please dont diss my requests for boring old Napoleonics - have you seen other ranges out there!? it is a tundra.

I am not into SCW WW1 WW2 but come off it man you can't moan about the amount of releases- I only wish I did do WW2 - I would be happy happy days ( although those chaps are spoilt for choice in this period- lucky B#####s)

Naaaaa keep it up and ignore the negatives - your bag baby (meeow)  

What's come over you? Has your request for Undead Space Vikings in Drag been turned down again?  

Ha ha - no that would be far to 'out' for me - im just boring old historical 

Quote from: 17-21l on 11 May 2010, 12:56:01 PM
Ha ha - no that would be far to 'out' for me - im just boring old historical 

I feel your pain. Right now I'm reading some stuffy book on the eighteenth century Jäger und Schützen der Preußischen Armee. And this morning the mailman brought these corny Russian and Japanese warships of the 1905 war, it's insane, why do I bother? I know I'm hurting myself because there is so much more out there man, so much more. 

Stick to it pal- get some ACW in as well - hey we are the boring guys keeping the boat afloat as we buy the normal stuff - all this 'Great Pomegranate wars of outer florisian empires 1453 - 839 - with space turtles against giant hairy testicals' - its all b#ll#cks (litteraly)

Companies need boring swine like my good self- and it makes me feel proud and wanted

Quote from: 17-21l on 11 May 2010, 01:18:21 PM
Stick to it pal- get some ACW in as well - hey we are the boring guys keeping the boat afloat as we buy the normal stuff - all this 'Great Pomegranate wars of outer florisian empires 1453 - 839 - with space turtles against giant hairy testicals' - its all b#ll#cks (litteraly)

Companies need boring swine like my good self- and it makes me feel proud and wanted

Hear hear, we're old and stuffy and educated, probably hard-working and smelly as well, and we'll certainly soon be dead. We should take up a hobby or sumtin.

Oh wait..  :

I game periods I have a genuine interest in; namely WWII and the Cold War at present. In the future I would like to return to ECW but only when I find the time and inclination.

I would like to game other periods in the future but, to be honest, I think I would tire of them fairly quickly. Why? I think I would get bored of, to my mind, the fairly rigid way that battles were fought in say the middle ages or the 18th century. A good friend of mine many years ago made the very valid point (to my mind) that it is nigh on impossible to game in say an 18thC frame of mind and not add in 20thC tactics and mindsets. I hope this is clear.

Quote from: Steve J on 11 May 2010, 06:47:45 PM
I game periods I have a genuine interest in; namely WWII and the Cold War at present. In the future I would like to return to ECW but only when I find the time and inclination.

I would like to game other periods in the future but, to be honest, I think I would tire of them fairly quickly. Why? I think I would get bored of, to my mind, the fairly rigid way that battles were fought in say the middle ages or the 18th century. A good friend of mine many years ago made the very valid point (to my mind) that it is nigh on impossible to game in say an 18thC frame of mind and not add in 20thC tactics and mindsets. I hope this is clear.

What you say is quite profound, and probably erroneous (Conrad).

After all, what's the difference? We can't very well game with the mindset of a 1941 Ukarainian conscript or an ex-Pionier East German tank commander either. Yet that is what you try to do when you concentrate on your favourite game periods, WWII and the Cold War. Sure, there are degrees of remoteness here, but if you have ever been to the former Soviet Union you will know that even the relatively recent Cold War mindset can be quite remote.

Cheers,
Aart

Cor Blimey Art - you just eaten some kind of dictionary dood? - bit deep man, Whats your thought on animosities during the Danish invasions of the British Isles???

Quote from: 17-21l on 11 May 2010, 08:39:54 PM
Cor Blimey Art - you just eaten some kind of dictionary dood? - bit deep man, Whats your thought on animosities during the Danish invasions of the British Isles???

That's funny, I thought the other guy was being a tad too dictionariabilical. Invasion of the British what, you say? 

Dicttio ?? Dittty dick  ? Oh its easy for you to say!! You know the invasion