Had a quick search through the bookshelves and found a bunch of the above......this sort of catalogue has become a rarity in these days of internet access...more the shame. Many a time have I spent on the throne perusing these pages.......enjoy.
I never used this voucher for some reason....grrrrrr...
This was a full colour catalogue.....an absolute gem and signed by Shane Hoyle.....
The 5 below are A4 and A3 flyers
Some shots of the 'coming soon' pages...some of these have still not been released however Bryan, Marcus and the team are fighting through their dusty corridors of doom to bring them all back....
They had a free limited mini included with orders for a while....I think I managed to get them all over the months with carefully planned out orders....
Not sure where this pic came from.....not mine so apologies in advance....
and whatever happened to these guys? Wonderful sketches...blogged some in a previous post. All pics taken a few years back at an open day....maybe the greens are still to be found??
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Bryan Ansell posted a comment on Facebook;
Those concepts were done for me by the amazing Wayne England 14 or 15 years ago, when I was out of the miniatures industry. My plan was that I would come up with three backgrounds for the three groups of concepts (Fantasy, Apocalyptic Survival and sort of Victoriana) and put them to one side, on the off chance that Marcus, when he grew up, would want to enter the wacky world of toy soldiers, thren there would be a ready-made platform to launch from.
I copied Wayne’s art onto discs at foundry. Years later I discovered that some bugger had got the images from the computer and put them all up on the wall. This was upsetting at the time: nobody wants to see their ideas flung out into the universe before the time is right.
One thing led to another, and after a strange and completely unforeseeable series of bizarre events and revalations, we have ended up with the previous management gone and Marcus running a somewhat bashed about version of the foundry that I used to run: and that my father ran before me.
Obviously: we would have liked to have just got on with the three new ranges based on Wayne's remarkable concepts and my backgrounds. It would have been a nice cleanly orchestrated start. We would have burst unexpectedly into an astonished and delighted world of gaming with at least one of the systems by now.
However, we felt that pulling foundry back together is a worthwhile thing: foundry have had a significant part in the history of our hobby and in the story of the Ansell family. So it was something that we could not just let go.
Putting foundry back together again has been (I’m searching for an adjective here….)… interesting… we have all learned a great deal through the process of having to steadily rebuild a big range with a small staff. We are very lucky that our casting/mould making team of Steve and Ronnie has stuck with foundry through all this strangeness, and that Marcus has been able to more or less pull all the bits back together.
You have a fine collection of brochures and suchlike: you may well have some that we do not: we gather that it was decided that in a world of websites catalogues and brochures were not required. So the previous management got rid of them all. We now only have the ones that we happened to have taken home with us in the distant past. We plan to reinstate catalogues and colour printed sheets but we have a few thousand models to make available, and we’re not sure whether the catalogues or the toy soldiers themselves should take priority
Cheers
Bryan
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