Linear-A news & releases 2020 - 2025

[elegantmess]

They're selling one of their injection molds on their sitr.

[Howlin]

Wow well I got my hands on the 3 copies of the siege engines, I haven't built them yet but they look so much better in hand than the photos. I may have to rescribe some of the details in the wood. I think plastic solider review was a bit harsh on it. It will likely be some of my favorite most ancient looking mangonel I have or can find.

What are peoples reaction to the new printed minis in hand? are they brittle? do they hold paint well? is there any reason for a person like me with all soft plastic minis to just stick with that vs integrating? thanks.

[CliosPaintingBench]

Well it seems this page hasn't been updated in a bit:

We have incoming:

Assyrians





Jason and the Argonauts





Pyrrhic Elephants

[Peter]

Very nice!

[Santi Pérez]

Both Assyrians and the Jason and the Argonauts figures look amazing. Thanks for sharing the pictures, Owen.

Santi.

[Brok_Santatusca]

nice

[cernief]

Not much has been done to update this thread in a while.

Linear-A has just come out with their Assyrian Siege troops, and an after the battle set for Assyria too.

[Howlin]

Its been a while so I came to see the progress, Looks like a few of them are at stage 7 of production so could be quick to see some elephants and anti elephant units. which are 2 BIG SETS. ... those ones I have been looking forward too for what seems ages.

[cernief]

There are pictures up in one of the threads on the board they have. (They have used it since who knows to introduce their sets previews, instead of the link on their page).

Three Elephants:


Elephant casualty:

[cernief]

And here is the Roman Anti-Elephant Cart, along with one of the elephants from before.

[Santi Pérez]

Nice figures. Thanks for sharing, cernief.

Santi.

[Iceman1964]

Very nice pieces, the casualty helephant is really fantastic !!!

I have just taken the assyrians (infantry, archers and sappers), guys these 3D printed miniature are incredibly detailed and the poses are simply impossible to immagine with previous manufacturing type. The plastic is good (not brittle) I don't have yet painted them but I don't think it will be a problem.

With this quality it's the game-changer in our hobby !!!!

[Howlin]

THank you! It was much easier to keep track when they had the pictures on the preview updates. It would be great to have them show up in both places with a link to the discussion about them instead of me have to go find that discussion when I do not know the translations. But I am happy to see them nonethe less! Well worth the wait. Does the second one come with an additional elephant? or is that just for show? I would like to see where this cart is referenced, If logistics could have given a couple hundred of them what a game changer on any battle field.

[Ochoin]

What a Rube Goldberg-like machine! I love it!! It does smack of Roman desperation.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in Book XX of his "Roman Antiquities," provided a detailed description of these anti-elephant devices & I think this is a good representation.

I'm not sure I should also hope for "flaming pigs", as this may run counter to no end of animal cruelty prohibitions.

donald

[cernief]

THank you! It was much easier to keep track when they had the pictures on the preview updates. It would be great to have them show up in both places with a link to the discussion about them instead of me have to go find that discussion when I do not know the translations. But I am happy to see them nonethe less! Well worth the wait. Does the second one come with an additional elephant? or is that just for show? I would like to see where this cart is referenced, If logistics could have given a couple hundred of them what a game changer on any battle field.

Actually, most people write in English. The topic titles are almost always in English. Linear-A writes updates in both German and English (you just have to scroll down in the same post).

Anyway, my understanding is that one of each elephant will be in the "big box set". We have yet to see a "big box set", so who knows.

[steve_pickstock]

Hannants have listed the 'Jason and the Argonauts' sets - they really look nice but a price of £50 for one (the one with the two Talos statues) and £30 for the other (with the Children of the Hydra) is a bit off-putting.
They are truly stunning sculpts but that is a bit too much for me.

[CliosPaintingBench]

Hannants have listed the 'Jason and the Argonauts' sets - they really look nice but a price of £50 for one (the one with the two Talos statues) and £30 for the other (with the Children of the Hydra) is a bit off-putting.
They are truly stunning sculpts but that is a bit too much for me.

Yeah I think it's the change to 3D printing coupled with the current inflation / cost of living crisis. It seems everything is going up, I'm generally cutting back on unnecessary purchases.

Many upcoming sets announced:











And successor elephants without box art yet:

[Santi Pérez]

Thanks for sharing, Owen.

Hannants have listed the 'Jason and the Argonauts' sets - they really look nice but a price of £50 for one (the one with the two Talos statues) and £30 for the other (with the Children of the Hydra) is a bit off-putting.
They are truly stunning sculpts but that is a bit too much for me.

I agree with you, Steve. I'd have to really like some figures to spend such an exorbitant amount of money on them, and that's not the case here.

Santi.

[steve_pickstock]

Yeah I think it's the change to 3D printing coupled with the current inflation / cost of living crisis. It seems everything is going up, I'm generally cutting back on unnecessary purchases.

There is some lovely looking stuff on the way, those elephants in particular and lovely.
I'm not sure that 3D printing is totally to blame for the price of the Argonauts sets. If anything the unit price is probably lower because the only costs are the resin and the printing. However the other factors - such as getting a licence from the Harryhausen estate to use the images and a projected 'low sale number' set factor are to blame.
Often when metal figure producers price figures officer and command figures are more expensive because people want loads of rank-and-file figures but only a few command figures, so they put a higher price on them. The Waterloo 1815 Allied officer set was a good example of this - IIRC about half again the price of a normal set.
So I can understand WHY they are more expensive, just not why they are SO much more expensive. And it's a shame, what I can see the figures of Argos - actor Laurence Naismith, is a very good digital image of him in the role.

Sadly, unless my numbers come up in the Euromillions, there won't be any of these figures in my Heroic/Mythical Greek Project.

[Santi Pérez]

...Sadly, unless my numbers come up in the Euromillions, there won't be any of these figures in my Heroic/Mythical Greek Project.

I also play EuroMillions on a weekly basis and, given my current financial needs, I would have to win a lot of money to spend anything on such expensive figures.

Santi.