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With the recent price hike from GWS Ive been having serious moral issues whenever I buy a GWS products. Now Ive seen a few non-GWS independent mini retailers advertise here every now and then, they range from the full blow range of custom non-GWS mini's to a more specialized catalogue of specific bitz

Please post a links to these independant retailers websites.



Thank you to all who have contributed so far. Here is a compiled list:
Pig Iron Productions
Wargames Factory
e4 Miniatures
Prince August
Chapterhouse Studios
Reaper Mini
Mantic Games
Heresy Miniatures
Tobsen77 Miniatures
Copplestone Castings
Scibor's Monstorous Miniatures

Do you want minis and bits kits that look a lot like GW stuff or are you looking for cooler alternatives for 'counts as'?

Yes and Yes. Really, anything that is an alternative to buying GWS products.

Check The Miniatures Page.

http://theminiaturespage.com/

Okay re read your post as well. You are looking at discounted retailers as well?

http://www.thewarstore.com/

[u]http://www.reapermini.com/[/url]

http://www.wargamesfactory.com/

Pricewise, there's not a great deal out there for sci-fi that'll beat GWs prices because most companies are still using metal, not plastic. Wargames factory (link in Mr. Burning's post) is your best bet for IG stand-ins.

Warzone, from Prince August, offer 80 miniatures for about $30.
http://www.princeaugust.ie/target_games/tg2420-1.html

I don't have a comprehensive list, but a few that I like.

1) Pig Iron productions. A bit cheaper than GW, and some great figs, but all metal. Rattlehead games and Warstore carry them

2) Wargames Factory is about to release it's "Shock Troopers" Plastic, Multipart IG style troops with long coats and gas masks.

3) EM4 miniatures. They're re-released the Grenadier future warriors figs and they are awesome. About 2 bucks a fig for great Mark Copplestone scuplts.
They've also got a line of plastic figs. that aren't quite as nice, but I like them.

4) The Warzone figs currenlty being sold by Prince August are also hightly recommended. The plastics are a great bargain, but there's alot of other good figs from the Warzone line.

This looks like a copy-paste of this thread, also on the first page:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/298364.page

Not exactly the same since the OP is also asking for alternative miniature makers (even though this has been covered before as well). Never hurts to bring it up once in a while in case something changes and another, cheaper alternative arises.

Added links. Any other sites?

I heartily recommend Mantic - good minis, excellent prices;

http://www.manticgames.com/

http://www.heresyminiatures.com/

Their Sci Fi troopers are pretty neat as are the Blight demons.

This guy is also worth a look for his all out craziness. Orks and IG conversiosn ahoy!

http://www.tobsen77.de/index.php?lan=en

Copplestone Castings Future Wars range maybe worth a shout as well.
http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/range.php?range=FW

Has anyone seen the eM4 gangers in the flesh at all please?


The pics don't look as good as GW's but as long as they are passable

Am in a hurry to get some gangers for the Library Club NecroMonday games and need a good price as it will be coming out of my own hole riddled pockets.




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For anyone interested found this on the troopers

The weapons are the only downside by the looks of it

Check out sciborminiatures.com also. Nice stuff from there.