Sideline Figures-Impact Miniatures wants our input

[WEIRDWOLF]

Guys, While cruising the web I discovered a unique company called Impact Miniatures located in Indianapolis that produces metal figures for war games such as Blood Bowl and Elf Bowl (fantasy style football games) www.impactminiatures.com

I sent them an email to see if they would ever consider sideline figures for electric football. They responded immediatley and were excited about the prospects and want our opinions.

After some discussion they are going to produce 1 or 2 figures to test this market. The figures are metal so they are not useable on a field but only as markers and sideline figures.

The initial idea is to reproduce classic coaches. For instance, a Tom Landry look alike body but with 3 interchangeable heads from other coaches known for wearing a suit.

Other options would be a sweater wearing Chuck Knoll, Mike Ditka figure.
A trench coat figure i.e. Lomardi or Stram. These are just examples of the possibilities.

What as a community would we most be interested in having them produce?

Their breakeven point is 173 figures sold but they can cross market with their Wargaming community. This is a great option for us to get something we want and open up a new market for an existing company.

I want to point out that this is NOT an MFCA venture but something I personally stumbled into and have nothing to gain from. This would be on Impact Miniatures shoulders exclusively but they want to know what we want.

[5-13 Studios]

the different outfits are good, i would also, personally like to see different "weights". thin, portly, obese. there have been so many coaches of all different shapes and sizes over the years, it might be cool to recreate that in mf.

Wolf,
Do I have your permission to use the video of you from the Jacksonville convention in our third DVD? If so, thanks! Anyway, I'm all for it. I'll purchase a couple when the're ready.

[HOOP]

cant come up with an idea, but the thought of having Tom Landry on my sideline is exciting. i would instantly buy one coach for each team. just like having a qb. this would be great for the hobby.

[kotixblack]

Functional Chain Gang, & field dress kit...please!!!!!!!!!

We look forward to trying this new venture out with the MFCA's input.

To keep it "in house" for you guys ... we've asked 5-13 Studios to come up with the sketches for the first figure that we do as part of the effort.

The idea is that 5-13 could bounce his sketches off of the community here to get ideas about what you would be interested in and then when finished ... we'd purchase the rights to produce sculptures from Chris's art.

We'll be interested to see how this all works. In terms of creating things like a camera crew or a chain gang ... those are all possible in the future if we think the return will be there. Those types of ideas are more expensive just because they need multiple sculpts to pull off correctly.
For example one of the other companies that makes Wargaming football figures (but only women figures) does an Orc and a Dark Elf camera crew:

So I could see Impact! trying out a human based crew.

Now as for cheerleaders ... I have to be honest that you might want to check out one of my company's competition: Shadowforge (based in Australia). The War Store carries their line of miniatures here in the USA ( http://www.thewarstore.com/humanteam.html ).

If you go down to the end of that link you'll find these 6 pure human cheerleaders that would work well with most of your teams already without waiting for Impact! to produce them based on this joint effort project.

However if you don't mind a bit of converting ... Impact!'s Beer Garden Beauty would be easy to cut off the hand with the beer mug and convert to be holding a pom pom.

http://www.impactminiatures.com/inde...ile&id=EO_BGB1

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Anyway looking forward to working on this project with MFCA and hoping it turns out good for both of our organizations.

Tom Anders
President - Impact! Miniatures

[jeff]

I like it ! Now if I could just get Chris to paint my camera crew and chain gang etc. I am tired of dry brushing .

Question on creating a chain gang set of miniatures. How long would the chain need to be to fit the 10 yard measurement on an EF field?

For those of you that already have made one ... what did you use for the chain?

Something like this?:
http://www.jewelrysupply.com/index.p...oducts_id=2646

Tom @ Impact!

[Geno H]

Originally Posted by 5-13 Studios

the different outfits are good, i would also, personally like to see different "weights". thin, portly, obese. there have been so many coaches of all different shapes and sizes over the years, it might be cool to recreate that in mf.

This idea seems to make the most sense.The biggest bang for your buck if you will.This would cover all coaches not only in the past but in the now.


Geno H

[NEW CASTLE HiTMEN]

Cheerleaders. Chain Gang. TV cameramen, reporters. screaming coaches,