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Axebreaker:

--- Zitat ---For the AWI I was really looking at the Perries too but I still hesitate...
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Well no surprise I recommend getting them(Perry\'s) as they are excellent figures and very well researched.Front Rank does some nice ones as well and Foundry AWI is pretty good,but a bit dated and so not as good as the two former.

Christopher

Driscoles:
Thank you for the recommendation Christopher !

Decebalus:
Sorry, i think your discussion misses the point. 10 years ago the tendence of miniature design was heroic style like Games Workshop. It was the time of the germans and the greeks by Foundry (designed by Copplestone). Some years ago there was a absolutely new direction: realistic proportions. The Perrys, after sculpting the LotR models for GW, adapted that style for their new historical ranges. But they still tried to be compatible to the older style of 28mm models. Richard Ansell has taken this trend to the extreme, his models look like 1/72 models in 28mm. He has done that with the Alban Peninsular range, the (ex) TAG austrians are the same (i am not sure, if they are sculpted by Ansell), and now some AWI models.

You cant discuss, what is better. They have a different style. Some will say, they are more realistic than the Perrys. Others (like me) will say, they dont care if their toy soldiers are realistic.

Axebreaker:

--- Zitat ---You cant discuss, what is better. They have a different style.
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Absolutely I can as everything is opinion based.The look of the Ansell miniatures are neither realistic as proposed or dynamic in other words not good and so the comparison is fair IMHO.
In my opinion he didn\'t succeed in making a realistic miniature,but rather a stretched,bloated in stomach narrow shouldered miniature that just flops.The detail is poorly raised etc.
Also Tom Meier of Thunderbolt Mountain really shows how to do it if you want something similar to 1/72nd done on a larger scale and blows Ansell out of the water. ;)
So,for the reasons above is why I disagreed with the statement that Ansell is the premier sculptor and voiced that opinion.


As for taste I like a lot of different styles and appreciate what they are trying to do in each style and think they have achieved successful results :

Perry
Artizan
Coppelstone
Conquest
Victrix
Musketeer
Thunderbolt Mountain
plus others

Christopher

Grimnir:
Normally I don\'t reply to a discussion like this as I consider it pointless to argue about taste with people I barely know.  However, so far you have missed an important point. This is a commissioned range. So the question is not whether Ansell\'s style is realistic or not. The question is whether he realized the style that his client requested. Ansell is actually the most versatile sculptor I know (take a look at his HP http://homepage.ntlworld.com/woodwose/). And that is a quality that the Perrys IMHO haven\'t proved yet. Well, they didn\'t have to since they don\'t do commissions (unless you are a Peter Jackson).

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