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I voted FW, they offer high quality and very detailed products in my honest opinion. GW is tided due to the extent of there ranges, no other company offers as many armies and races and with there extensive plastics conversions are easy making custom looking armies easy to make.

GW, as I haven't heard of most of them before.

@ Salted Diamond
2000pt Army of Elysians?
Wow! So what's your secret for winning the Lottery?


I've got to admit though, the FW stuff is incredible, easily my favourite!
Had a bit of a crush on the Elysians since they came out, but way over priced for me, and I can see the appeal of the Death Korps, even if they're not really to my taste.

Shocking, and disturbing at the same time.....well, at least within the confines of this forum, it seems GW is king of the hill.....that either says alot for their PR engine, or very little for the tastes of most gamers who voted.

I was surprised that a couple of people hadn't even heard of most of the companies, and yet seem to vote GW anyway.....wouldn't it have made sense to investigate the others and THEN vote?

Still to each his own......

They aren't on the list, but Wargames Foundry has a massive range of nicely sculpted stuff. The Perry twins do/have done work for them. I believe the owner was one of the founders of Citadel minis way back when. Their fantasy range is a bit...meh...but the historicals are amazing.

I could never vote for Old n'Gory. Too many horrid Gorilla arm ACW figures out there with the head of Shaggy from Scooby-doo. Their old command decision range had nice vehicles, but the minis all had Brazil Nut shaped heads and impossible flash lines.

Shocking, and disturbing at the same time.....well, at least within the confines of this forum, it seems GW is king of the hill.....

I don't find the poll results or comments here shocking or disturbing at all.

First of all, this forum is primarily devoted to GW products, so there's no surprise or shock in finding that the devoted fans that frequent this forum are extremely fond of GW miniatures.

Second, as I pointed out in an earlier post, GW crushed their original main competition years ago. It's only over the past few years that newer companies with similar marketing strategies (i.e., using a battle game system to sell their miniatures lines) have made significant gains against GW in the marketplace. However, since GW is older, has more experience and a longer-term existing customer base, again it's no surprise that they still lead their competition in most sales areas.

Reaper

Marauder

GW has really nice minis...

And why isn't Reaper on the list? Reaper Miniatures is an amazing miniature company!

lol

scotty kahn wrote:I am surprised there is no spot for Reaper up there. Theyre my favorite because they have high quality figs and very low prices compared to other manufacturers.

I concur...

...my vote was other for this reason.

I agree with oden...avatars have some pretty nice stuff, just not a lot and not mainstream...

Voted FW. Wish I could afford more stuff.

fw iz me fav mini maker they 'ave great large scale models

Yeah I though for sure Reaper would be on the main list

Hasslefree.

They do a lovely range of character figures and they put penny chews in the box.

Ral Partha.
HassleFree
Heresy
The old SpyGlass.

I've gotta go with GW and FW. Forge World would have won it, but i cant stand resin

Games Workshop, Privateer Press, and Battlefront.

Games Workshop still has some of the best looking models in the industry, and has provided me with untold hours of fun; Privateer Press got me interested in wargaming outside of the GW universe; and Battlefront did the same thing as Privateer but with historical wargaming.

I'd also vote for Reaper were it up there, because it's often the sole manufacturer I use for RPGs, and I always base my RPG characters off of figs.

I voted other and GW (as I think their minis are really characterful, and have timeless designs especially some of Jes Goodwin's scults - 1st ed 40k figures that still hold their own today).

The other is Ground Zero Games, who make loads of Space Ships for their Full Thrust game, which is pretty cool.

Also, they made Bubblegum Crisis minis, though I don't know it they're still available. :p

I like good ol' GW. Tamiya provides my tanks.

Heresy and Copplestone both beat GW in my opinion.

GW come in third, FW don't even make my top 5.

Write In: Reaper makes some kick ass minis!

My choice is - http://shadowforge.com.au/

Hasslefree miniatures.

For fantasy figures, Reaper.

For historicals, Gripping Beast or Foundry, though Foundry prices seem to creep up every time I visit their site. Actually been down to their store in Nottingham, it was worth the drive

I like some GW mini's but the more recent stuff doesn't appeal to me so much, so they don't get my vote. 5 years ago they might have done though.

I'd add +1 vote for hasslefree as well. For awesomeness it's still FW,then REAPER!

I have no knowledge of anything other than GW and no real interest at all.

Im sure theyre good like, I just havent got in to them or heard about them much.

Newt-Of-Death wrote:I have no knowledge of anything other than GW and no real interest at all.

Im sure theyre good like, I just havent got in to them or heard about them much.

yeh, this.

Could care less about other minatures, except maybe for conversions. I used a lightsaber on my daemon prince, so yeah. Conversions are fun.

Iron Wind Metals. I love Battletech.

Wizkids ftw.