A couple of nights ago I did some research to uncover other figure manufacturers making plastic kits.
This yielded: Mantic Games, Warlord Games, Wargames Foundry, Malifaux. And of course Kingdom Death, of which I own copious numbers of plastic figures.
It was interesting to see that Malifaux (aka Wyrd) have sprues exactly the same as KD. I also noticed some common features between GW and Mantic sprues. It seems that some parts of their plastic production is outsourced or shared, which could make initiating a change in 'design culture' a little harder.
An exceedingly useful mantra when trying to get a point across: show, don't tell...
Would have been nice to add a wood texture, but that is beyond my capacity to make. Rivets do nicely however. The plain sprue profile is an approximation from eyeballing and a millimeter ruler, good enough in the absence of having a micrometer to hand. The colour profiles are all derived from the basic GW footprint, and all of them lend themselves to scratch building structures that facilitate panels.
~J~
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