Medieval Knights (2 Viewers)

[Panzer ace]

Does anyone know if Thomas Gunn plans to expand their Medieval Knights series?

 

[Guest1]

Does anyone know if Thomas Gunn plans to expand their Medieval Knights series?

Supposedly. Been promised for months now!!

 

[mikemiller1955]

same thing on the Arabs for their FFL series...
and most recently...
the Persians for their Spartan series...
promised months ago...
never came through with them...

 

[Panzer ace]

I guess that answers my question!

 

[zblang]

Maybe they could take a break from making nazis - same with all manufacturers

 

[Sahara]

same thing on the Arabs for their FFL series...
and most recently...
the Persians for their Spartan series...
promised months ago...
never came through with them...

Cant forget virtually no enemies to fight the Roman's other then a chariot and a handful of Dacians.

 

[mikemiller1955]

seems it's becoming a routine...
developing one side to the extreme...
then offering a lopsided smattering of their opponents...
then abandoning the series altogether...

combatants should be somewhat equal in distribution...

I was really frustrated with the French Foreign Legion series...
a totally underwhelming production of Arabs in comparison to Legionnaires...

then again frustrated with the Spartans...
with a very disproportionate offering of Persians to combat them...

I had communication with TG about this...
they always told me to be patient...
more Arabs and Persians were on the way...

they never materialized...

I cannot comment on their Romans as I don't collect them...

I like TG's product...
I collect TG's product...
I'm not trying to run their business...
but they did promise more Arabs and Persians on many occasions...
it never happened...
it's frustrating because I made a large investment in both series...

I can't speak for anyone else...
but as far as I'm concerned...
it's not too late to revisit these series...

 

[Panzer ace]

Mike:

A great example of the lack of Roman enemies can be found in the arrows. There are multiple Roman figures who have arrows in their shields, arrows in the ground around them and arrows in them. Yet the the only enemy archer they made comes with the Carthaginian War Elephant.

-Jason

 

[Peiper007]

Mike:

A great example of the lack of Roman enemies can be found in the arrows. There are multiple Roman figures who have arrows in their shields, arrows in the ground around them and arrows in them. Yet the the only enemy archer they made comes with the Carthaginian War Elephant.

-Jason

I am a huge fan of T Gunn and collect the Romans, WW1, WW2 and Spartans. Agree no decent enemies, except for WW2 as in the Japanese and Aussies. I also think they do not produce that many WW2 Germans, should be some out soon but there are not loads, as with K & C [which I also collect, have 520 WW2 German Figures. I am a bit frustrated with the lack of enemies for the Romans, especially British Natives. I stopped collecting and sold all my FFL, but understand the frustration of lack of Arabs. On Spartans, enemies do not bother me, as I bought for the fantastic range of different shields.

Talking to manufacturers native enemies just do not sell, I think generally Zulus did not sell as well as British 24th foot in the Britains range, same when Conte were doing it, Britains War of the Nile, natives never sold really that well.

I have 131 TG Romans from the 9th Legion and all the mounted sets. they do look a bit 'off' as no enemy, but manufacturers have to make money and will make what sells.

 

[Guest1]

Maybe they could take a break from making nazis - same with all manufacturers

Totally agree with you. WW2 is popular, I get it but there are many of us that are just as into Ancients and Medievals(Hundred Years War). Like Mr. Miller said where are all the Persians to oppose the Spartans?

 

[Horus]

Totally agree with you. WW2 is popular, I get it but there are many of us that are just as into Ancients and Medievals(Hundred Years War). Like Mr. Miller said where are all the Persians to oppose the Spartans?

Presumably getting ready to celebrate the Persian new year on Thursday :wink2:^&grin

Steve

 

[Currahee Chris]

Mike:
Yet the the only enemy archer they made comes with the Carthaginian War Elephant.

-Jason

Nope, they did a British Celt archer a couple years back. Admittedly, with the Romans, it would appear as if there are scores of them, which their current catalog doesn't have.

They did several Celts a few years ago- I believe a run of 6 cavalry figures (I have three) and they pretty much just collected dust. Perhaps based on the lack of sales they slowed things down a bit.

I use TGM to fill the gaps and round out some collecting angles that FL doesn't immediately offer.

In regards to Spartans and Ancient Greeks, I am not a fan of the Ancient Persians and couldn't see myself dropping $55-$65 a pop so I simply have a display of Spartans squaring off against ATG (yes, it did happen- though ATG wasn't there), and that allows me to collect both Macedonians and Spartans without having to dole out cash for Persians that I really don't want to collect.

In fact, that is the way a lot of my collecting is going nowadays- prices are just too high to buy figures that I don't like to simply fill out opposing forces. The exception being my Roman diorama- I have all the FL and TGM opposing forces offerings.

Regards
CC

 

[katana]

Historically the Romans fought each other as much as they fought Barbarians. Oppose Legion with Legion for a great diorama.

The same goes for the Spartans who fought and were defeated by the Thebians; who used the same Armor and Weapons.

Cant forget virtually no enemies to fight the Roman's other then a chariot and a handful of Dacians.

 

[Panzer ace]

Nope, they did a British Celt archer a couple years back. Admittedly, with the Romans, it would appear as if there are scores of them, which their current catalog doesn't have.

They did several Celts a few years ago- I believe a run of 6 cavalry figures (I have three) and they pretty much just collected dust. Perhaps based on the lack of sales they slowed things down a bit.

I use TGM to fill the gaps and round out some collecting angles that FL doesn't immediately offer.

In regards to Spartans and Ancient Greeks, I am not a fan of the Ancient Persians and couldn't see myself dropping $55-$65 a pop so I simply have a display of Spartans squaring off against ATG (yes, it did happen- though ATG wasn't there), and that allows me to collect both Macedonians and Spartans without having to dole out cash for Persians that I really don't want to collect.

In fact, that is the way a lot of my collecting is going nowadays- prices are just too high to buy figures that I don't like to simply fill out opposing forces. The exception being my Roman diorama- I have all the FL and TGM opposing forces offerings.

Regards
CC

Apologies, I should have quantified what range I was referring to.

The Celts in your post refer to the ABC series (the archer is ABC008) which was made a few years before the current TG Romans. I am referring to the ROMEN line.

In my opinion the ABC series does not go well with the current Romans as the paint style and aesthetics are different.

 

[mikemiller1955]

it never turned into anything big financially...
but I got the TG French Foreign Legion Legionnaire figures of the Battle of Camerone/Cameron sp?...
the Legionnaires in red pants...

so...
I had a 1/2 dozen Legionnaires in red pants...firing weapons...
1 wounded Legionnaire...
and a few other Legionnaires in action poses...
I didn't even know what to do with them...

they never developed the Mexican Army that they fought...
not one single figure for a combatant...
I had a bunch of Legionnaires in red pants shooting at nobody...^&grin

so...
I ended up selling all these at a discount on Ebay...

that sucked...

 

[Panzer ace]

Some manufacturers do make figures for both sides of a conflict and both sell very well.

 

[Sahara]

Historically the Romans fought each other as much as they fought Barbarians. Oppose Legion with Legion for a great diorama.

The same goes for the Spartans who fought and were defeated by the Thebians; who used the same Armor and Weapons.

Without a doubt legions fought against one another quite a bit. However, for my personal preference I would like to see foreign enemies addressed such as Iceni, Suebi, Dacians, Parthia, Armeni, Boii, Lusitani, Roxolani, Marcomanni, Zealots etc...… My god the list goes on and on. I would take one, just one enemy covered in the same detail that the Romans are.

 

[Sahara]

it never turned into anything big financially...
but I got the TG French Foreign Legion Legionnaire figures of the Battle of Camerone/Cameron sp?...
the Legionnaires in red pants...

so...
I had a 1/2 dozen Legionnaires in red pants...firing weapons...
1 wounded Legionnaire...
and a few other Legionnaires in action poses...
I didn't even know what to do with them...

they never developed the Mexican Army that they fought...
not one single figure for a combatant...
I had a bunch of Legionnaires in red pants shooting at nobody...^&grin

so...
I ended up selling all these at a discount on Ebay...

that sucked...

I'm actually phasing TGM out of my collection for this very reason. I had all the legions and multiples of them. Somewhere around 400 plus figures. Sold 2 of the 3 legions at a hefty discount. Same thing, I was told the enemies would come but nothing ever materialized. Very discouraging, it won't happen again. I've been focusing more on JJD and FL since they cover both sides of the conflict adequately. K&C also does a good job of covering both sides. I'll hold on to the last legion in hopes that we will one day see the enemy but I'm not holding my breath. TGM please prove me wrong.

 

[Panzer ace]

I'm actually phasing TGM out of my collection for this very reason. I had all the legions and multiples of them. Somewhere around 400 plus figures. Sold 2 of the 3 legions at a hefty discount. Same thing, I was told the enemies would come but nothing ever materialized. Very discouraging, it won't happen again. I've been focusing more on JJD and FL since they cover both sides of the conflict adequately. K&C also does a good job of covering both sides. I'll hold on to the last legion in hopes that we will one day see the enemy but I'm not holding my breath. TGM please prove me wrong.

Posts like this, and the lack of any response to it, makes me wary of purchasing too many of the knights.

Then again, there are only 5 of them in the series so the line may have stalled out before it even left the starting gate.

 

[Gunn Miniatures]

Hi there guys
Sorry been away from the forum as my wife has a terminally ill mother with cancer, which means I am the one running the kids to school, walking the dog, doing the cooking, the cleaning and carrying out all my other wifely duties like the ironing whilst she is away. I am actually thinking of entering Master-Chef (TV series for those of you who don’t watch TV) in a couple of years, I even made a Soufflé last weekend!

Unfortunately we don’t have the benefit of servants or ‘helpers’ as they are now called by people who are richer and more sensitive/PC than myself, so its up to me to do it all on the home front and the war front, who said fighting on 2 fronts was impossible?!!! As to the lack of response to this major forum issue in people’s lives I hope the aforementioned explains the delay to everybody’s satisfaction?

For those of you who wish to contact us in a more efficient manner may I suggest a wonderful new invention called ‘email’ where you would be more likely getting a much quicker and very enthusiastic response as to what we have planned, rather than posting here on the forum and hoping somebody will read it? Our email is welcome@gunnclub.co.uk for future reference. Its rather like that other fantastic invention called the ‘Mobile Phone’ or ‘Cell Phone’ as our friends in the USA say. Why call a landline and hope somebody in that particular static building will pick up, when you could call their mobile and so long as they hear it, they will speak with you (assuming they want to)? Unfortunately my wife and kids who all have mobiles never answer their phones or the landline whenever I call them, does anybody else have this problem or is it just me they won’t speak to? Anyway it’s just a suggestion and not meant to be taken too seriously.

For those of you who do not collect WW2 you may not realise that this is the 75th Anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings and as such we are putting a lot of our resources into this momentous event, strike whilst the iron is hot and all that. How am I doing so far in educating people but hopefully not offending them?

Being a small company we only have limited resources and so for the next couple of releases we will be concentrating on WW2 (Wayne I can see you jumping up and down even as far away as sunny Australia as we speak). Obviously we will also be adding to our other ranges like the Zulu War, Napoleonic’s, Berlin ‘38 and WW1 at the same time, as for the last 3 years all we seem to have made is Romans or Spartans. Sometimes guys you just have to take a rest from a particular series (or even a marriage), otherwise it just becomes mundane and then the fun stops. However a short holiday can provide great invigoration and give a whole new perspective to that series.

If you looked at our website you would see most of our genres are woefully lacking whereas there are pages of Ancients available. We did mention in our newsletter in that we would be slowing down on the Ancients, but that is all it is, its not a complete cessation or surrender of the field to the competition. If you take our Napoleonic’s page there are NO figures available for sale due to them all selling out, however I am happy to say this will change quite dramatically this year. I am sure John O’Brien will be happy to hear this, hopefully he is not the only one out there buying our Napoleonic Russians, although I would not put it past him!

Not wishing to blow our own trumpet too loudly as modesty prevents and I don’t want to sound like somebody else from another company, we are now one of the most prolific manufacturers of 1/30 and 1/32 scale wooden aircraft in the world, or definitely here in Warminster for sure. We have something like 400 models in the pipeline at the moment. This sort of production schedule eats into a big chunk of our resources and takes up a sizeable amount of time management and planning. However we also do plan on slimming these offerings down and returning to 1/30 scale figures in greater numbers than before. Production times in the Philippines are something of a hit and miss target (flight of fancy/optical illusion even) and sometimes I feel we could have gotten the real aircraft built quicker than they can make a batch of 1/30 scale aeroplanes over there. Our WW1 Handley Page bomber and Dornier 17 seaplane taken something like 2.5 years now to complete (sigh of relief and also despair from my end), they should be in the next shipment fingers crossed and for those of you waiting, I thank you for your patience.

So not wishing to err too far off on a tangent I would like to confirm for the last time (hopefully) that we will be making this year 5 more Persian Immortals, 3 to 5 Ancient Britons and at least 10 more figures for the Medieval series, which has been a great seller for us so far. No horse stalling at the start gate so far for this series, but never say never in this hobby.

For those of you who don’t want to wait, then John Jenkins and K&C make some great looking enemies of Rome and Greece that are very compatible with our figures and I heartily recommend them. With reference to the Medieval series no doubt we won’t be able to please everybody’s requirements, but it’s a huge genre and we can only generate so much in one lifetime.

Last thing, we have hired a young guy called Jack Knight (sounds like a movie star I know) who will be taking over the digital marketing and forum responses from now on so hopefully no more unseemly delays and anguish from some quarters!
Before I forget, Arabs for the FFL series, they are coming Mike as well as more FFL, I just needed inspiration which has admittedly taken a long time to seep through, but I am working on it and I have not forgotten you.

Best wishes
Blake Reade
Co- Founder and Head of Design