Ce sont les marques que j'ai eu plusieurs fois l'occasion de peindre, et, mon classement ne prends pas en compte uniquement la gravure. Mais également, le choix et la variété des sujets proposés.
I do not chose one list. All of them are important in my view, because any of those add value to my collection. I would not have started this hobby without AIRFIX ( I esteem their Britons even today as an excellent set). Hät brought back the ancient range after a mediocre attempt by ESCI. Than the beat accellerates to the maniac Caesar who barely missed any ancient period and ZVEZDA who improved set by set to excellence. Ultima Ratio added bitterly needed Carthaginians and Iberians. Hannibals Iberians are complete only by combining those sets with the Orion and Hät sets - now they are battle ready.
The smaller manufacturers like Lucky Toys or Odemars made sets worth looking for. I love those Lucky Toy Indians, wait for my Lucky Toys "Huns" and am searching for the Odemars "Oscans" and "Legionaries".
Only one manufacturer would be boring. Let them compete.
The crown for the best researched and sculpted figures goes to Linear A at this moment.
Zitat von cernief im Beitrag #1George Dianelis, in another thread asked the question:
"I'll ask this question on the forum: Rank your favorite figure manufacturers (for your own reasons). Will let me start:
1) LINEAR-A 2) ZVEZDA 3) CAESAR 4) MINI ART 5) RED BOX 6) HÄT 7) EMHAR 8) ULTIMA RATIO 9) STRELETS 10) MARS.
ZVEZDA was number one until Linear-A came along."
It might be an interesting discussion
Hi Claus, good idea to start a new topic. I will rewrite my list by including Italeri, which has beautiful figures for antiquity. 1)LINEAR-A 2) ZVEZDA 3) CAESAR 4) MINI ART 5) RED BOX 6) HÄT 7)ITALERI 8) EMHAR 9) ULTIMA RATIO 10) STRELETS 11) MARS.
Ce sont les marques que j'ai eu plusieurs fois l'occasion de peindre, et, mon classement ne prends pas en compte uniquement la gravure. Mais également, le choix et la variété des sujets proposés.
Yes of course Stéphane, everyone has their own reasons for their list but from what I see we basically agree.
Some of those choices were tough. Linear-A for me remains nr. 1 despite prices.
My own reasons are as follows:
Linear-A: Excellent in most qualities you can find Caesar: Excellent lively poses, good details, probably the best injection mold figures ever made. Zvezda: Excellent lively poses, details a bit "too perfect", some assembly required, for their better sets. HäT : Very good in general, details a bit lacking, and outsourced some sets to worse manufacturers, covers wide variety (Bonus: Got me back into the hobby) Italeri: Better than HäT when it comes to details, poses are sometimes useless in the amounts provided, which highlights a bigger problem, too few poses. Emhar: Look good, but only a few sets, so sad. Poses for their Anglo-Saxons and such look like Revells. Revell: Look good, some historical questionable figures among them (Praetorian Guard, need I say more). Strelets: Chunky style, which is something that requires some getting used to, but lots of lively personality among figures. Not bad figures as such. Ultima Ratio: Somewhat flat figures, recently, but some interesting sets. (I should have mentioned Orion along with these, they have better figures). Airfix: Not bad, just not the quality we are used to these days. Forefather of most other manufacturers. A Giant so to speak.
Wish I had mentioned a few others, but I'll stand by my list.
Yes, there are some Hät, some Strelets and nearly all Italeri sets with strange proportions of those figures - especially far to large heads. This is a major drawback, but Strelets and Hät phased those sculpting out. Those Revell Ancients are not as well researched as the modern one or even the ancient airfix Britons - far to Hollywood Style.
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