Just to toss this out there, but what are people's thoughts on deliberately-typed infantry models? for example; 3085 Sup gives us a bunch of new infantry platoons. Does anyone care to have all these represented as accurately as may be done at that scale by minis?
Speaking as someone that's more of a Collector than anything (I've painted
TWO minis since '86, and rarely play anymore), I see infantry minis as a waste of time and effort on the sculptor's part. :-\ Aside from the ones that are
Extremely Obviously Different, I don't see the point in having "Liao Infantry" versus "Kurita Infantry" versus "Davion Infantry". Things like the AA Jump, Branth (aka "Aerial Beast"), Recon, and VTOL Infantry all look different enough. All the others just look like a little guy with a helmet and a gun. :-\ With something less than 1/4th of an inch tall, how much detail can you put on one of them anyway? If they were all done in 28mm, then more detail could be added, and that would better set them apart from "Standard" grunts. Granted, I still wouldn't buy them, but I wouldn't look at them as a "drain" on a sculptor's time like I feel the current tiny ones would be. If they get around to doing infantry, I Hope it's after all the 'Mechs and vees (air and ground) have been done.
Something
MORE Important to consider though, is
How Well they Sell. Or, How Poorly. :-\ The Kurita infantry (AR20-823) are Archived for a reason, though the Davion Infantry (20-824) are
Obviously still selling well enough to keep them out of the Archives. All the others are Online Only, so who knows if they would be Archived otherwise?
EVERY BT mini sells for at least a little while, but would the "new" infantry minis sell well enough to even justify being produced to begin with? ???
On a Personal Note, I can't help but look at the "Beast Mounted Infantry" in
TRO: 3085 and think of the old Ralph Bakshi movie
Wizards! :D Being a Pern Lover, I'm
Heavily considering buying a Branth (on ground), and asking a friend to paint it to look like Ruth for me! :D