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I wound up picking up The Men on Saturday. I just started working on them last night. I'm a little disappointed that there isn't quite as much customizability as I'd like, but at least they labeled what goes where and the sculpts really are top notch. I may not be able to get quite the poses I want, but the figures are great, the price is definitely right since you get 30 figures for about $20, there's a ton of extra bits, and this set allows me to field a group of fat guys with beer cans and guns. I'm very pleased and I will absolutely be getting The Women now.

How easy/convincing is it to make these unarmed?

 Todosi wrote:


On a similar note, the woman with the bow has the arrow on the wrong side as well. That is one of my biggest pet peeves in films and even worse on miniatures. Looks like some converting will be in order.

Great catch! I just got my daughter her first bow (a 20 pound recurve) for her 11th birthday last month and should have noticed that.

I'm thinking a little patience, a little green stuff, a few bitz from the Bitz Box and I've got 7 or 8 female IG out of this.... I'm getting a box of them as soon as they're available.

 Todosi wrote:

On a similar note, the woman with the bow has the arrow on the wrong side as well. That is one of my biggest pet peeves in films and even worse on miniatures. Looks like some converting will be in order.

I'd replace the entire arrow.

Maxim C. Gatling wrote:I'm thinking a little patience, a little green stuff, a few bitz from the Bitz Box and I've got 7 or 8 female IG out of this.... I'm getting a box of them as soon as they're available.

Good luck. I'm curious to see how well they match up in scale. Post pics if you can.

Dr Mathias wrote:

 Todosi wrote:

On a similar note, the woman with the bow has the arrow on the wrong side as well. That is one of my biggest pet peeves in films and even worse on miniatures. Looks like some converting will be in order.

I'd replace the entire arrow.

The old GW skeleton sprues had single arrows, but you might make your own with a pin and some putty. I would use brown stuff instead of the green.

Bah, at this scale, they usually look like they are firing pipes instead of arrows. A straight pin with some fletching at the end would be about right.

Great review of the Apocalypse Survivors: The Women kit

http://battlebrushstudios.blogspot.co.at/2013/09/review-apocalypse-survivors-women.html


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Another review with scale-shots
http://wargameterrain.blogspot.be/2013/09/wargames-factory-female-apocalypse.html

Are these minis more in line with GW's minis or say, Hasslefree's 28mm true-scales?

 BrookM wrote:
Are these minis more in line with GW's minis or say, Hasslefree's 28mm true-scales?

GW Catachan on far right

Thanks, I think this could work with my existing range of zombie game minis.

The male survivors are a very nice kit as well. I'll need to pick up the girls at some stage, as well as their female zombies.

here's a zombie size comparison:

Geez those are small.

Male zombies was WGFs first kit. Different sculptor, probably the first mini set the Chinese factory made. I wouldn't judge any recent stuff through comparison with that set.

Their survivors are great though. Despite them being in heroic scale, I actually rather like the Greatcoats, too.

 judgedoug wrote:
Great review of the Apocalypse Survivors: The Women kit

http://battlebrushstudios.blogspot.co.at/2013/09/review-apocalypse-survivors-women.html


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Another review with scale-shots
http://wargameterrain.blogspot.be/2013/09/wargames-factory-female-apocalypse.html

Thanks for posting the reviews. I know I am a bit late to this discussion, but I was looking for something different to paint and the war games Factory kits fit the bill. Plus 30 minis for $22 is pretty nice as well.

Are there any plans at all for WGF to produce anything of their own this year? They seem to be churning out kits for everyone left and right, and getting delayed on quite a few projects.

15mm Americans are likely to be released in March.

I suspect at least one of the six kits for the new range will be available by Historicon.

 Dr Mathias wrote:
15mm Americans are likely to be released in March.

I suspect at least one of the six kits for the new range will be available by Historicon.

What period? Modern? WW2? Other?

Are there any other Americans we like but the WW2 ones?

I kid, I kid.

 CptJake wrote:

 Dr Mathias wrote:
15mm Americans are likely to be released in March.

I suspect at least one of the six kits for the new range will be available by Historicon.

What period? Modern? WW2? Other?

Oh sorry- the next release is the WW2 15mm Americans. I painted the ones on the FB page a couple months ago, so they should be released quite soon. I don't have any experience with any other manufacturers of 15mm WW2 stuff, so I can't say how they compare to Battlefront or PSC for example. They're not to hard to paint despite being detailed little suckers- I could detect the 'pineapple' texture and pin on the hand grenades. Painting it is another story

I signed an NDA so I can't reveal what the upcoming "six set" project is.

WGF is obviously very busy doing work for other companies- they do have some plans for some cool stuff of their own (that I've seen as concept art or renders) but I think they are prioritizing the Kickstarters that they are manufacturing for.

I think a redone male zombie kit would be well received, along with a Daimyo/Mako screen/Taiko drum set to round off the samurai.

Maybe a redo on the Sci-fi Greatcoats as well. They are kind of out of proportion and the heavy weapon team should have kneeling legs not butt-on-the-ground weird leg position.

Most of the Tony Reidy-era WGF stuff should be redone (up to 2011 basically)

 Dr Mathias wrote:


Oh sorry- the next release is the WW2 15mm Americans. I painted the ones on the FB page a couple months ago, so they should be released quite soon. I don't have any experience with any other manufacturers of 15mm WW2 stuff, so I can't say how they compare to Battlefront or PSC for example. They're not to hard to paint despite being detailed little suckers- I could detect the 'pineapple' texture and pin on the hand grenades. Painting it is another story

Thanks for the clarification., I just gave away an absolute TON of 15mm W2 stuff a couple of weeks ago, but kept my moderns, so was hoping that is what it was. I knew it was a long shot.

 Dr Mathias wrote:

 CptJake wrote:

 Dr Mathias wrote:
15mm Americans are likely to be released in March.

I suspect at least one of the six kits for the new range will be available by Historicon.

What period? Modern? WW2? Other?

Oh sorry- the next release is the WW2 15mm Americans. I painted the ones on the FB page a couple months ago, so they should be released quite soon. I don't have any experience with any other manufacturers of 15mm WW2 stuff, so I can't say how they compare to Battlefront or PSC for example. They're not to hard to paint despite being detailed little suckers- I could detect the 'pineapple' texture and pin on the hand grenades. Painting it is another story

I signed an NDA so I can't reveal what the upcoming "six set" project is.

WGF is obviously very busy doing work for other companies- they do have some plans for some cool stuff of their own (that I've seen as concept art or renders) but I think they are prioritizing the Kickstarters that they are manufacturing for.

I think a redone male zombie kit would be well received, along with a Daimyo/Mako screen/Taiko drum set to round off the samurai.

Do they have an insane amount of snipers like the German kit had?

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 Dr Mathias wrote:


Oh sorry- the next release is the WW2 15mm Americans. I painted the ones on the FB page a couple months ago, so they should be released quite soon. I don't have any experience with any other manufacturers of 15mm WW2 stuff, so I can't say how they compare to Battlefront or PSC for example. They're not to hard to paint despite being detailed little suckers- I could detect the 'pineapple' texture and pin on the hand grenades. Painting it is another story

Do they have an insane amount of snipers like the German kit had?

There's one figure with a scoped rifle per sprue, in a standing firing pose. There are a couple prone firing figures but nothing that says dedicated sniper. I think there's 46 figures on a sprue- a couple officers, some tommy guns, two bazookas, I think the sprue has three BAR operators as well.

WGF posted a teaser pic in their forums, and on the Facebook page.





I hope they make an official announcement soon, I'm dying keeping their next kits under wraps. I'm very eager to hear how the new period is received.

Looks like we're getting Revolution era Brits.

Would make sense in a "The British Are Coming!" way, since it seems to be referencing Paul Revere's ride.

Yes we are, they even put this puzzle on the website:

Image spoilered for those who'd enjoy a few minutes doing a good ol' puzzle.


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It is now feasible to do an old school astra militarum regiment with classic red coats.