Hofi

[Inaki]

Good day, Everyone.

I have just came across two Hofi figures.
They are great, pics attached.

This is the first time I've seen this brand.
Can anyone tell me a bit about Hofi?

Hope you are all doing great and relatives, friends are all safe in spite the weird times we are all going through.

Cheers,

Iñaki

 

[Tom W.]

Hello,this is/was a Czech company.They do figures all through the ages.Quality is different.Some have very ugly faces and many airbubbles all over,when the figure is done in a terracotta-colored resin.Think they don´t do vacuum pouring at first.The most are done after Osprey´s MAA or Peter Connolys books.I have painted a Austrian cuirassier officer 1756-63 some month ago,that´s a Verlinden like quality.I bought many of them from a Czech guy named Mirco ???.The pricees were very low at that time (ca. 23 years ago),15,00 DM for a 120 mm figure.In one of the first Figurines magazines is a figure review from one of their´s.One of the biggest kit is a Mongol with a horse,who took a arrow out of the neck of a dead Russian soldier,who lies over a tree trunk in a lake,done after a Angus McBride painting in the Eliteseries from MAA.
Perhaps someone (mirosoft?) knows some more about them.

 

[Inaki]

Hello,this is/was a Czech company.They do figures all through the ages.Quality is different.Some have very ugly faces and many airbubbles all over,when the figure is done in a terracotta-colored resin.Think they don´t do vacuum pouring at first.The most are done after Osprey´s MAA or Peter Connolys books.I have painted a Austrian cuirassier officer 1756-63 some month ago,that´s a Verlinden like quality.I bought many of them from a Czech guy named Mirco ???.The pricees were very low at that time (ca. 23 years ago),15,00 DM for a 120 mm figure.In one of the first Figurines magazines is a figure review from one of their´s.One of the biggest kit is a Mongol with a horse,who took a arrow out of the neck of a dead Russian soldier,who lies over a tree trunk in a lake,done after a Angus McBride painting in the Eliteseries from MAA.
Perhaps someone (mirosoft?) knows some more about them.

Thanks, Tom.
Thats a good answer!
I am quite impressed by both figures.
Have a nice day ahead!

 

[Mirofsoft]

See also CiFi, there were even doing some small dio in 120mm

 

[Airkid]

I remember them. I did buy a couple back in the day, but for the life of me I can't remember what they were or where I came by them. I wonder if they got Osprey's permission to use their artwork?

Phil

 

[Babelfish]

Long defunct Czech company. I've have a couple in the stash for years, and I also painted a couple of others about 20 years ago.

They did some lovely figures but also some real turkeys.

Often let down by piss-poor, drawn box art that didn't give a fair impression of what was inside (it made the good ones look bad, and the bad ones look even worse).

- Steve

 

[Mirofsoft]

Long defunct Czech company. I've have a couple in the stash for years, and I also painted a couple of others about 20 years ago.

They did some lovely figures but also some real turkeys.

Often let down by piss-poor, drawn box art that didn't give a fair impression of what was inside (it made the good ones look bad, and the bad ones look even worse).

- Steve

Well it was also the time when you could ask the shop owner to open the box to show you, and often get comments from other customers
I simply bought my HoFi ( among many others makers in at least 3 differents shops in Belgium ( blessed time, no patreon, or not only digital pictures, or indiegogo, or facecrook or instagram boulle et boulle et ratatam ... )

 

[Airkid]

Those were the days Mirofsoft. Now, I doubt there are many "real" through-the-door, true modelshops in the UK. I can think of maybe three within 100 km of my home - they may all be gone by now, thanks to you-know what.
Thinking back, I seem to recall one of the Hofi figures I bought was a Japanese Infantry Officer, China 1939. It was a bit grim. Probably bought at Euro.

Phil

 

[Oda]

Have a few of their samurai in my stash.Sculpting and casting are fairly good but the resin is really poor quality.The samurai you hold in your hands is an example of what a good sculptor who ISN'T into samurai can do.The painting on which he/she based his/her figure is very precise and clear and it is obvious that his/her skills are considerable and yet,for sone unknown reason,he/she managed to completely mess up the entire lacing on Kato Kiyomasa's armour.Fully relacing and correcting mistakes on the figure before painting is one of my ambitious projects for the nebulous future...

Oda.

 

[Ray Stout]

If I remember correctly they were 90mm scale. I do remember they did a mounted Samuri as the big picture in the Osprey book, during the Mongol Invasion. Mine was a fair casting. Can't remember where it went, but I did hold on to it for a couple of years. Ray

 

[Mirofsoft]

If I remember well, all pictures shown say 120mm