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Re: 1/72 scale miniatures market

Sorry made several mistakes when I wrote:

The question was: is the market so small that only our Ukrainian entusiasts are interested in it?

What happened in the past years that all big players went out of the market?

Re: 1/72 scale miniatures market

well, i think that revell and italeri were never in the market and never out.. they are still there, it's just that they move very very sloooowly, they stand and watch what's happening, then they make a new set.. one on every 20 or 30 years. Zvezda and Hat made the renaissance of the hobby (with strelets, caesar, orion, red box etc.), it's just that that wave has come to an end.. waterloo just rode that wave, a wave just a little too big for the small tuscan manufacturer, but he did something really worthy and hope he still keep doing!

Re: 1/72 scale miniatures market

of course i keep faith that strelets, orion, red box, alliance and everyone is still riding the wave, will still keep riding for a long long time! and never give up! :muscle:

Re: 1/72 scale miniatures market

and for the market, it seems obvious that is a nearly exclusive club for anglosaxon gentlemen, british, americans, some australian, some other few europeans, germans... people with cold winters that love to stay home playing with toy soldiers :joy:
so, if winters still stay cold and dollars and pounds keep running out the pocket of middle-aged-a-little-overweight anglosaxon gentlemen the hobby will not perish! :laughing:

Re: 1/72 scale miniatures market

Well said, Giorgio! I would like to add that 72 scale remains quite popular among the Eastern Slavs - in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus.

Re: 1/72 scale miniatures market

Another very active manufacturer that I haven’t heard mentioned here yet is Linear A. While they focus primarily on ancients, they are expanding into the Napoleonics here soon, and their quality is outstanding. I feel like this point has been made already, but as long as we’ll researched and quality figures are being produced people will buy. And I can tell you that me and many of my friends (early 20s) are all very much into the hobby.

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Reallllly love Linear-A, and Linear-B... i mean, they did Etruscans, Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon, Denisovans!! and Minoans, Roman civil life, hellenistic armies and many other exotic subjects! actually I think it's my favourite Manufacturer!!! (even if I think that there's the hand of Strelets behind their minis!):heart_eyes:

Re: 1/72 scale miniatures market

Dear Giorgio,

we don't make sets for Linear-B any longer.
What you describe as a "hand of Strelets", is in reality a hand of a same sculptor, who is in trenches now. At the moment the area that he's in is relatively calm. How long that will be the case nobody knows, hence all future projects are pretty vague.

Best regards,

Strelets

Re: 1/72 scale miniatures market

:scream: :fearful: oh my god, hope the best for that guy!
hope the best for you all!
please somebody stop this madness! let's there be war and battles only on the game table!
not for real!!!
It's too easy for us, that we live only few hours of driving from Ukraine (Italy), to forget that the war is still going on!
I quite can't believe my words... war!
simply unconceivable!
please stay safe, I pray this will stop as soon as possible! :pray:

Re: 1/72 scale miniatures market

Strelets, I am sorry to hear that your brilliant sculptor, and that you yourself, are in the way of danger. That is a cold bucket of reality thrown on all of us enthusiasts, and another really good reason to hate Vlad Putin. I hope that he roasts in hell.

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Yevgen Chernov:
Great topic. How lucky we are to be living through this amazing hobby from the beginning and thru till now. The 1960's John Wayne Fort Apache and Beau Geste movies helped hooked me as a kid. Hopefully some new CGI games or YouTubes will encourage the new generations to want to buy these and experience that wonderful "feel" of the figures in their hands.

Minuteman:
Thanks for the PSR link. Incredible!

Plastic Soldier Review:
Your PSR and plus Wikipedia are the two absolute greatest resources on the internet. I appreciate both so much. Thank you!

Strelets:
Thank you for the greatest forum for our hobby. The Strelets Team shows such strength, courage, determination and fighting spirit. I am absolutely in awe and humbled.

Other Forum Members:
Very interesting opinions. So enjoyable to read them. This Forum brings enjoyment and friendship around the world.

Re: 1/72 scale miniatures market

I think it is wrong and highly misleading to claim that HaT, Waterloo 1815, Italeri, Zvezda have stopped production. They certainly have not. They have more or less stopped releasing new sets, but their sets are plentiful to be found all over the internet and they are regularily back in stock. I use figures for wargaming, one of the few using 20mm and for that purpose those manufaturers are very useful, since you can easily build British, French, Austrian, Prussian and Russian armies with their output. The same would go for people building dioramas I would think.

So tha they produce few new sets is something mostly the collectors have a gripe with, but for other groups they still do the use, and as a matter of fact, a manufacturer like Italeri that keep core sets for the hobby in print for decades is very important for new people entering the hobby, wargamers and the like.