Ok, I've reached a slight level of frustration with identifying figs.
I've looked at all three of the Official GZG sites (Geo-Hex in the
US, the un-official 'official' GZG site in the UK and the Eureaka
site in Oz).
I'm working through a set of figs I ordered from KR in the US via my local
shop and I was a bit annoyed at the number of duplicates I got in the command
units. No commo troops. I did the best I could on the ordering, and am mostly
happy, but my requirement for additional poses and types of figs led me to
convert one sniper to a prone sniper and one of the command troopers to having
a set of binoculars to his face vs playing with those silly sunglass (unless
those are meant to be BCGs, in which case I pray for the souls of the rest of
the platoon under the command of all those bespectacled command
section/squaddies). I also modified one of the GMS/P Troopers to be
prone, and one to be kneeling, and one of the Snipers into a Lance corporal
command figure with a standard battle rifle. 3 snipers all standing seems sort
of pointless, I really envision them all crawling, prone or crouched.
Still the point of all this isn't the figures style, but the lack of
information about this. I can deal with not being able to pick them off of the
shelves like the Blasted GW figs, but I'd like to see what I'm ordering.
The short of it is that since I couldn't get some of the figures that
are mentioned on the GZG-UK site, I ended up ordering another $100
worth (on top of the platoon and a half I received from GeoHex) of stuff from
Oz. Namely Ghurkas and some of the other named figs that I couldn't pick and
choose off the US site, commo troopers, etc. Even so, the Eureka site doesn't
have all the figs, or even most of the figures pictured.
Granted I know that it takes time to take pictures of all those figs, but
still... I'd love to see some pictures of what I'm ordering, be it from the
site directly or out of a Catalog and then handed off to Kirk at my local
store.
G'day Ryan,
> Ok, I've reached a slight level of frustration with identifying
While not on the web one solution might be to write to Nic and ask if he'd
send you a photocopy of the relevant pages of his updated catalogue. He hasn't
got the whole thing finished yet, but he's done the SG pages (or a fair whack
of them).
Cheers
Beth
> Ryan Gill wrote:
> The short of it is that since I couldn't get some of the figures that
I'd just like to point out that I live in California, and that I order from
the UK site. It's actually cheaper to order from the UK (shipping included)
then it is to buy from Geo-Hex here in the US. Granted, you'll wait
longer to get your stuff, but it costs less, and you can be sure you get the
figure you want by code at least...I know all the pictures are not up on the
web site. However, when you do order, you can also ask for a catalog which has
pictures for about 90% of the figures, and all the vehicles.
-Brent Wolke
> Ryan Gill wrote:
Brent,
How do you handle paying in English pounds?
Enjoy,
> > Ryan Gill wrote:
TGranvold said:
> How do you handle paying in English pounds?
Use a credit card. Jon gets paid in pounds or shillings or groats or whatever
it is, but your card gets the equivalent in $US (or $Canadian, in your case).
No problem. You may want to disguise your card number
and/or
split it among two or more mails, but I haven't had a problem.
> At 1:08 PM -0400 6/8/01, Chris DeBoe wrote:
Careful with those attributes. You cut out my statement and left Brent's.
> At 1:08 PM -0400 6/8/01, Chris DeBoe wrote:
> Careful with those attributes. You cut out my statement and left
I was replying to TomG's, which had it that way...if my clients would just
stop trying to force money on me, I'd have a few minutes peace to read
everything....
> > The short of it is that since I couldn't get some of the figures
As Laserlight said, it's not a problem provided you can pay by credit card.
The card issuing bank or company handles all the currency conversions -
we bill the order in UK pounds, and it appears on your statement converted to
your own currency (I think most will also print the UK amount and the
conversion rate used on your statement as well - at least that's what
happens the other way round with my own Visa card when I've used it to make
purchases from US suppliers).
> Chris DeBoe wrote:
> TGranvold said:
Yeah...what he said. 8)
-Brent Wolke