Greg Cooper has purchased Verlinden Productions & Warriors Scale Models

[MCPWilk]

I wonder if there is any chance of buying the 200mm Roman and Agincourt masters.

Mike

 

[tigerdio]

Working on a FB site for both, and a web site for Warriors to include Verlinden. Getting the Verlinden web site IP would be impossible as it is still owned by someone else who will not give it up.

That is because they believed that Verlinden products were OOPS, nobody ever care to say that Lots Of Models had licences and moulds, perhaps one of the worst lack of communication on this field . It's not enough to produce good products, you have to tell it, to promote them . Game Workshop was a stamp sized shop in London early 70ies BUT they were very active in promoting them, visiting all conventions in surrounding area, and accros the channel, writing to al known Wargames club and today ...
Lots of Models went to the void . A new shop bought them out . Did they spread the word outside here ????
No for the vast majority they stay OOPS so the OOPS price policy on ebay ... Hey friends, your target are more IPMSS worlwide write to them all in every countries, except here you are nowhere and ... it's not enough, you're even not on your own webb page with the info .
https://www.scalemodelgraveyard.com/
Even your day to day customers are not informed . This is a NEWS to be put on front page
If you type Verlinden in the search box the answer is :

No listings match your query.​

 

[Ong]

I don't have Facebook, never did, so I hope that the information will be posted in some other fashion.

I honestly don't know about the timing of this. Pre-COVID, or a year ago when many were still cooped up at home during lockdown may have been the best time. Now that people are going back to work and school and a lot of stores have closed down due to the pandemic, lest mention a lot of hobby stores have closed, makes me also wonder if Verlinden and Warriors reissues will do well since modelers don't have the time at home anymore and there are a lot fewer "brick and mortar" hobby shops to sell kits.

3-D printing is taking the modeling world by storm and 3-D printed kits are cheap and the quality is just as good if not better than resin figure kits.

Then again, Summer is almost here so perhaps kids will do more modeling or arts and crafts. The key is marketing and fabulous Customer Service. I can hope for the best and best of luck!

 

[Henk]

As said earlier, Verlinden figures have had their day. Combining the quality and availability of newer figures, and the prolific re-casting that is now a fact of life, I don't think there will be a large market for Verlinden figures. Some of the better ones might sell, but only if they can be sold cheap enough. I don't think the "nostalgia " market will do it...

 

[Henk]

For what it's worth, I think Verlinden re-issues will struggle, unless very keenly priced. There is an American seller on evilbai, who tries to flog them at around $70 dollars each (plus postage $$) which is way over priced in today's market. As mentioned, better figures are available, especially German WWII and Napolionic. The other, arguably bigger, problem is the internet, and Chinese recasters. The market is flooded with cheap figures, and a majority of buyers dont care where they buy from, they buy cheap.

Personally, I like some of the British Paras that they did, and some of the Vietnam figures. I pick them up if I come across them at a reasonable price, but wont pay for the "verlinden" effect.

Now, it is easy to criticise Verlinden's old catalogue, and to be fair, that is what it is. But, one must not forget that they did do some beauties, one of which I managed to get on the baai of evil, for a very decent price...

The detail is very good, and a quick search around the Interweb shows that most detail is also accurate. The only things that stood out, were the boots, which seem to be a mix of different boots, and the parachute pack, which has the carry handle on the wrong end. Both issues, if they bother you, ceasily be remedied.
What let Verlinden down then, and still today, is the lazy and frustrating position of the pour stubs.... Verlinden kits need a lot of work with the razor saw, scalpel, sanding sticks and filler...

I'll do a more detailed write up and description when I start painting.

 

[valiant]

"What let Verlinden down then, and still today, is the lazy and frustrating position of the pour stubs" - speaks volumes of companies that dont understand the moulding process and the engineering needed to section figures, IMO.

 

[Mirofsoft]

Well . A long time ago in the ...
The first to make plaster diorama in production serie ... the first to make 1/35 resin then 1/32 . The first to introduce the 120mm resin, first to make accessories and conversions set in resin for platic-kits, to make Newspapers, posters, crates, post-signs ... in fact he was the revolution by himself, a poor belgian postman, he was first a maquettes maker with lot of idea to transform cannibalising, transforming, creating, and, had the brillant idea to share by producing the result in series for us to buy . Thanks a lot Mr Verlinden and again thanks fo all the tricks and councils you distilate largely when you were still in you first shop or when we has the chance to meet you in our friend shop, Tomker .

 

[Martin64]

Agree to most of the acchievements credited to Verlinden - don`t forget the magazines filled with colorpictures of models and shows," how to"-articles etc. etc. When the market grew bigger he just failed to see that he could not be the only one and best one in every field of the hobby and had a ...err special way to deal with people he regarded as a threat or his foes. For example one of his former employees learned how his future gravestone would look in 1/35 scale after he left Verlinden Productions...
His 120mm line had a certain style and overall finish although many different sculptors were providing the masters. What still can be done with his products is shown by our member Peter Day on a regular basis. Warrior Scale Models had several very good figures in 1/16 scale. Therefore I look forward to future re-releases of these lines.
Cheers, Martin

 

[Henk]

Well . A long time ago in the ...
The first to make plaster diorama in production serie ... the first to make 1/35 resin then 1/32 . The first to introduce the 120mm resin, first to make accessories and conversions set in resin for platic-kits, to make Newspapers, posters, crates, post-signs ... in fact he was the revolution by himself, a poor belgian postman, he was first a maquettes maker with lot of idea to transform cannibalising, transforming, creating, and, had the brillant idea to share by producing the result in series for us to buy . Thanks a lot Mr Verlinden and again thanks fo all the tricks and councils you distilate largely when you were still in you first shop or when we has the chance to meet you in our friend shop, Tomker .

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Absolutely, I was a great fan of Verlinden when I first had the money to afford his products in 1990. I still am, I still buy figures and accessories when I come across them. Like the B-17 gunner above. Did the molds of these survive? They would be a viable kit to re-issue. But the fact is that the Verlinden catalogue has obviously not been updated for many years, and many of the figures are now not in the same league as later figures. There may be a market for them, but it will be a niche market.