photo catalog was: 6-10mm ST Bugs

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Agreed. In fact I have only ever bought one type of miniature without seeing
it first (either in hand or in print) and that was GZGs 6mm NSL infantry. I
know that I am missing out on some great miniatures, but I have also seen many
that I have not liked very much at all. YMMV greatly...

> I know it takes effort and money to build a graphic website, but a

> "kh.ranitzsch" wrote:
But
> this isn't confined to websites. I have lots of paper catalogues with

Paper catalogues can't really be compared to websites. A website can be put
together for free (well, almost) and just about every free webspace service
provides enough space for a huge numbers of pictures. There's not really any
excuse for even the smallest manufacturers not to provide pictures of
everything. A paper catalogue on the other hand costs money to produce and the
number of printed pages does become an issue. Also, many manufacturers have
large ranges which would require
telephone-directory sized tomes to include decent pictures of every
model they manufacture (just look at the Citadel catalogues) which would have
to be charged for.

F/SF manufacturers face a slightly different problem to those of
historical miniatures. If a well known manufacturer of 20mm WWII figures comes
out with a new range of (say) early war Polish cavalry, and I was in the
market for figures of that type, then I'd happily buy them unseen as long as I
was happy with other figures from that manufacturer. On the other hand, if an
SF manufacturer of previously good repute produced a new range of 15mm
figures, I'd want to see them first to check out the style, see if they fitted
with other figures I already own, make sure they scaled in correctly etc.