THE TAPROOM 3

You are right my dear barli, I shall propose a mounted one,

How about the Battle of the Five Armies itself?

Similar sized range as The Battle of Mirkwood, with three different Mirkwood Elf warrior poses, three different Warriors of Laketown poses, three different Iron Hills Dwarf poses, along with Bolg and a couple of his warriors (perhaps “canonise” the Phaeton Goblins), along with bats and wolves. Throw in Fili and Kili as named figures on the Dwarven side. (Since Gloin, Balin, Fili, Kili and Thorin are the only Dwarves who get much in the way of screen time, and we have miniatures for the others).

Mithril can thematically link this to ranges they have going now (Dwarves, Classics) and the boxed sets. They can show off The Unexpected Party set, the Bilbo Presents the Arkenstone set, and so on.

Sorry, Gavin, you have to say ONE warrior pose. This pose will be doubled up. So there will be only five figures wich need to be sculpted.
With a lot of luck, the pose of a “whatever-range-figure” range already exist. Maybe for the orc range . . .

And Gavin- you are about thinking mithril want´s to sell miniatures. Which they certainly don´t.

Sorry to be that sarcastic, but I am fed up a bit at present . . .

Thank you for the drink, Master Milo. Of course you don´t have to be scared . . .
Friendly Hobbits are always able to calm me down. Cheers!

My round of drinks for everybody and I’ll take some hot chocolate here as it is growing cold outside!!

just wanted to let you all know that i made a post on the official forum suggesting some idea or concepts for mithril GF and future releases. It is here :
http://mithrilfigures.proboards.com/thread/1066/new-series-project-details?page=3&scrollTo=11202

please send me feedback about it…. (I did not mention the “price”, in my proposition on the official board, but assuming sets take less costs to produce the price of a given figurine inside a set would mechanically be far lower than single figurine and would allow GF ‘real single’ special’ to focus on … special… assuming their sculpting is also “special” and could justify a price
I can no long accept -same as you master Archer- the fact that a simple woman, or even an infantryman or whatever “common” personna be released for 21€ whereas it should be 1) FAR less expensive (10€ max) 2) be comprised in a set of figurines of the same theme and not “lonely”

well indeed, but at least there is word about that rather than silence, that’s better than nothing…. (I mean official word, we all knew what Michael said already….)

if 3D printing (for master only of course) can improve things, why not… I know Chris is working on mastering his own art style in 3D rendering for months now maybe that’s the future.

I have nothing against IF the style of Chris is maintained AND if the castings remain in prince august metal (or Phaeton metal… I don’t know which metal Chris is using for hiw own production but I like it)

Happy birthday Master Cameosis.. cheers and thanks for the drink

Well, considering it looks like GW is finally drifting out of Middle-earth – the first releases for the third Hobbit film are all in their hated and overpriced finecast, which suggests lots of Low Rate of Production models, not the long term investment plastic models – it does mean that there may be a market that Mithril could chase aggressively.

It struck me that GW’s Hobbit range was effectively a collector’s range – a bunch of high cost, supposedly high quality miniatures, aimed at a high end market of mature collectors. Note the ratio between the expensive Finecast and the somewhat cheaper plastics. GW had in general eclipsed Mithril’s costs (or almost done so) – so now its a competition between design and quality. And GW is at a disadvantage there too.

Now might be a good time to push Mithril’s brand somehow.

Those are great news to know Gildor, I did not knew they where starting to walk into a new and maybe better direction. Thank you for sharing that info, puts a bit of light on my heart about mithril.