Just to start a small discussion, and maybe to try again...
The first batch of club100 ghurka's went very well. Even Jon is producing them
now, so there is some commercial viability in them. However, as far as I can
remember far less then the current club100 limits were required to get the
project started.
I made an attempt at a second batch, but that was a miserable
failure:-) So, why was this the case?
- The wrong figures were proposed?
- Too many figures were proposed?
- People want to buy finished figures, but do not want to commit to
something they don't know will ever be there?
- Not enough publicity?
I suspect the second option. I see the same thing with games at Columbia Games
and GMT. They languish a long time, and only when numbers are starting to get
significant there is a quick increase to the required limit.
Publicity is probably also a problem. We could humbly ask Nic and Jon to place
references with the currently available ghurkas.
So, I am willing to try again, but to get this to work we have to limit the
number of proposed entries in the club100. We also have to work with the
condition that one entry will get 4 variants.
I am interested in a prone figure(that is, laying on his belly) with a sniper
rifle. This would probably mean one entry with prone figures: sniper, spotter,
rocket launcher. Things like that.
There are already some poses present: standing, walking, kneeling. This means
we can probably ask for an entry with heavy weapons, or one with more 'normal'
infantry. All can be variants of current poses.
Nic can probably comment on what is doable/allowable.
So, is there anybody else interested in trying for more ghurkas again?
Cheers,
I would be interested. Just let me know what I need to do.
Best, T
> Frits Kuijlman wrote:
> Just to start a small discussion, and maybe to try again...
> Tony Reidy wrote:
> I would be interested. Just let me know what I need to do.
When they are entered in the club100 you only have to go to the eureka website
and use your creditcard to commit to some figures.
For now I would first like some suggestions as to what figures people would
like to see before I bother Nic with vague questions about the difference
between variants and different figures. For the currently available figures
try:
http://www.frits2.cistron.nl/tuffleyverse/ghurkas/
This is a page I put together a long time ago when I first tried a second
batch of ghurkas.
Cheers,
Hi Frits,
I'm still interested in the Gurkhas project. I'm personally in favour of
getting some HW figures; a GMS would be nice, for example. It might be easier
to get the project going by discussing figures that could be created from
existing poses, though I'm also interested in the idea of prone figures...
I did a couple of conversions to add GMS-P to my gurkha platoon. One is
simple (a GMS glued to the back...) but the other is more along the lines of
what you might be looking for. Feel free to use this as a reference if it
suits...
http://www.stargrunt.ca/acj/gurkhas/gurk_hw.htm
Thanks for making the effort to get this going again.
I'm not sure I'll be able to commit to a vast number of figures, but I'm
certainly interested! TomB hasn't been able to put a lot of time into the GZG
lists lately (very, very busy in RealLife) but I'm 99.9% sure he would be
interested also.
> Adrian Johnson wrote:
Yup, a prone figure is a bit more tricky as it requires people to commit to 4
different prone figures. Variants of existing figures might be a bit easier as
it offers more 'usable' figures. Both options still require a total commitment
of at least 150 figures to get going though.
I have also posted this on TMP and on the yahoo SG/SF/DS group to get
as much exposure as possible. I want to gather as much opinions as possible so
that we can put something viable on the club100.
And no, you don't need to commit to a lot of figures, every bit helps. Even
better, 20 people commiting to 6 figures is better than 4 people committing to
40, as this gives Nic at Eureka a better feel for the viability of the
figures.
Cheers,