Considerations for a New Series in a New Year (1 Viewer)

[Arnhemjim]

To All Forum Members,
A safe, prosperous and Happy New Year! In the coming year, for those who have an intense personal interest in a specific period in history, personage, weapon or battle which is currently totally neglected, perhaps consider the following. I would like you to participate for a moment, in a cerebral exercise.

We all realize that producers of military miniatures have some form of business model. It probably rages from the back of an envelope, to a more formalized document. For the moment I’m going to exclude the political stability of the nation of origin/production, which I hope all of us realize is well above the pay-grade of members of this forum, but an obvious underlying factor.

Consider a business model in the form of a Venn diagram (weighting factors required) which integrates the following criteria for initiating new figure(s)/sets of toy soldiers. Unfortunately it isn’t just Geppetto producing Pinocchio, or Hans Christian Andersen's, “Steadfast Tin Soldier”. Hey, there’s already a manufacturer using “Steadfast”.


Projected Profitability
Current financial status (Both client and producer)
Commitment of investors
Existing fabrication and storage facilities
New and or unique theme
State of existing/projected economy (Discretionary income/budget)
Projected Popularity
Producibility
Projected Pre-sales orders
Complexity of figure/fragility (Projected breakage rate)
Skilled labor availability/cost
Materials availability/cost
Cost of packaging, temporary storage, shipping/distribution
Accuracy/Availability of Research Data
Latitude of Artistic License
Past popularity of similar series
Adaptability of existing basic figures

There may well be some redundancy and additional factors which I’ve overlooked, that “rivet-counters” can pick up on that. So for every “Arnhem ’44” and “Market-Garden” Series, what will be next, “Falklands War”? Open for comment, good, bad, or indifferent.


[FONT=&quot]Slàinte Mhòr![/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Jim Gordon aka Arnhem Jim[/FONT]
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[Poppo]

I have a great interest into the mexican revolution, the Zapata westerns, subgenre of spaghetti westerns made in Spain like " Once upon the time...The revolution", " Tepepa", " Quien sabe". This theme was made by italian directors like Sergio Leone, Corbucci, Damiani... These movies were politicallly inspired by some leftist atmosphere of those years.Even if some american actors like Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Orson Wells ( and of course italian and a cuban actors: Thomas Millian)starred in those late sixties, seventies movies, they aren't very popular in the anglo saxon countries I guess,.So there won't be done in toysoldiers I guess.

But I m doing my own revolutionaries and federales for my diorama.

 

[Poppo]

A good idea would be the olympic games...