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From their fb page. Looks like they got a lot for this year. Bet their forums said "finally" for their survivors

We here at Wargames Factory wish you all a very Happy New Year! Thank you for your support throughout 2012, & we look forward to an exciting 2013. Here is a sneak peek at one of our Apocalypse Survivors, coming the 1st quarter of the new year. Also upcoming in 2013 will be the DreamForge Crusaders and Eisenkern, as well as 28mm WWII Russians, 15mm WWII US and our updated Skeleton Warriors... and lots more yet to be announced!

Looks good.

Glad to see WGF are continuing to improve.

Ya know, I thought they sucked pretty hard for the first few years, but I recently picked up their Orcs kit and the WSS plastics... and they are fantastic. I assembled the Orcs with Persian bows to use as Sniffs in KoW, and I'm going to be using WGF WSS exclusively for a Blenheim project I'm doing. I've been duped for years by their godawful paint jobs until I actually got some in person.

Yep, they've improved a lot over time. It was initially due to the quality of the sculpts going in, and not the manufacturing process (as their work with Dreamforge has proven quite well). All they really need now is to get a really good professional painter to do some exhibition works for them to show off their new models.

It will be interesting to see how well the 28mm WWII Russians come out. If they come out nicely, and are compatible, I foresee this to be a good year for IG players, especially with the Dreamforge models in the mix. WGF may be printing themselves free money in 2013.

2013 is going to be such a good year for us!

I assembled of their Zulus last week, trying to force myself to get the last of them built. I sure hope their new stuff is much better than those...

Aside from the brim of his hat looking awfully thick and the left hand looking a bit stiff (yes, probably done because of modular weapons), it looks okay.

The Dreamforge stuff shows what WGF is really capable of...its all nothing short of spectacular. Paired with good designers the WGF guys can make amazing stuff. Anyone who has doubts about them needs to check out the Dreamforge kickstarter & thread.

Yes, best thing they ever did was work with Dreamforge . Apparently it was their designs, not manufacturing, holding them back.

Interested to see these apocalyptic survivors. Could end up making good conscripts/penal legion/ cultists/ etc.

I need to find a good UK-based free-shipping 10%-off stockist of their stuff.

Well, again, their Orcs are great, so are all the War of Spanish Succession figures, and all the far east/samurai stuff.

WGF just seems to be getting better and better. I returned one of their earlier kits, but their newer stuff is great. I especially like the orcs and the samurai. Their 15mm WW2 stuff is a bit small for that scale, but it's still pretty good. That sheriff/state tropper fella actually looks like a real person with real proportions.

The head on that cop figure is hilariously large. Other than that I like it.

Hope to see some other stuff soon.

~Eric

 Tannhauser42 wrote:

It will be interesting to see how well the 28mm WWII Russians come out. If they come out nicely, and are compatible, I foresee this to be a good year for IG players, especially with the Dreamforge models in the mix. WGF may be printing themselves free money in 2013.

I assume they'll most likely be the same scale as their other ww2 stuff which is more truescale I believe.

Yeah their scale looks good on its own. I've got 28mm germans from warlord and wargames factory, and the difference between the two is quite surprising.

Wgf is very truescale, with VERY FLIMSY weapons. Other than that they look pretty good, and you get an insane mount of parts per box.

Warlord has a more "heroic" scale, with chunkier minis and much more sturdy weapons.

Another peek



I am generally curious though with all the different possible clothes on how swappable all the parts are without looking weird

Do these come prepainted/based?

primalexile wrote:
Do these come prepainted/based?

Probably not pre painted. The only thing I have heard about pre painted wgf is their 15mm line and that hasnt been brought up too much

Also probably not based. Wgf models have had a foot base before but they dropped that after a while (and not to mention all the complaints about those)

 kenshin620 wrote:
Another peek



I am generally curious though with all the different possible clothes on how swappable all the parts are without looking weird

They look like the bodies are one piece, with seperate arms and heads, which would line up with how their WWII Germans are done. You get 3 sprues with 10 different bodies on each (they are all identical sprues)

What they probably did was keep the torso/leg combined bodies and then just gave a truckload of arms, heads, and bitz, which I would be totally cool with. If the detail is any good, this could be an awesome kit for making any number of things. Variety of weapons for cultists, militia, conscripts, etc, as well as tons of different looks for cheap characters with RPG's and whatnot. I might end up getting a box of these if the price is right (which odds are, it will be)

Yes, these seem to be a few parsecs ahead of the shock(ing) troopers.

Will pick some up next time I am in Boston or something.

That's a really nice looking miniature. He looks like a guy in suit with a gun.

Maybe because he is?

 BrookM wrote:
Maybe because he is?

Perhaps what he means though is that he could easily be used as CIA or Secret Service/etc miniature with little to no problem

MrMoustaffa has the right idea, depending just how well made these are that this set could have a lot more uses than just zombies

I mean, he actually looks like a guy in a suit with a gun and not a cartoon caricature of one. The miniature looks exactly like what it is representing with good proportions and detail. It's not a silly comic book version either.

Yeah, these survivors look really good. I felt that their previous offerings were good for the price, but these guys appear to be top notch offerings.

Surprised they don't have a faster increasing range of 28mm WWII. Thought there would be a demand for it with Bolt Action starting to get some popularity.

 Piston Honda wrote:
Surprised they don't have a faster increasing range of 28mm WWII. Thought there would be a demand for it with Bolt Action starting to get some popularity.

It would come up in competition with the Warlord range though, I feel as their best sellers are those that don't have a direct competitor, i.e. War of Spanish Succession, Samurai et al.

 Dawnbringer wrote:

 Piston Honda wrote:
Surprised they don't have a faster increasing range of 28mm WWII. Thought there would be a demand for it with Bolt Action starting to get some popularity.

It would come up in competition with the Warlord range though, I feel as their best sellers are those that don't have a direct competitor, i.e. War of Spanish Succession, Samurai et al.

Competition, but bigger market. Especially for 28mm plastic WW2, not exactly a whole lot of companies doing that.

Could potentially be a PSC of 28mm WWII.

I bought a set of their US GIs a while back, surprising good, a more true representation of a soldier than bold action. But their poses are rather... meh. Feel like Bag-O-Army men style.

 Piston Honda wrote:

 Dawnbringer wrote:

 Piston Honda wrote:
Surprised they don't have a faster increasing range of 28mm WWII. Thought there would be a demand for it with Bolt Action starting to get some popularity.

It would come up in competition with the Warlord range though, I feel as their best sellers are those that don't have a direct competitor, i.e. War of Spanish Succession, Samurai et al.

Competition, but bigger market. Especially for 28mm plastic WW2, not exactly a whole lot of companies doing that.

Could potentially be a PSC of 28mm WWII.

I bought a set of their US GIs a while back, surprising good, a more true representation of a soldier than bold action. But their poses are rather... meh. Feel like Bag-O-Army men style.

Germans are the same. They feel very "true scale", but the weapons are very thin and brittle. I don't know how the american kit is, but the German one has an insane amount of weapons and bitz. I believe there was something like 6 sniper rifles, 10 panzerfausts, and 8 MG 42's. A single box of WGF troops gets you all the infantry weapons you need for an army 3 times the size of what comes in the box

If only it came with STG 44's...