Peter’s Paperboys & WoFun Games Tinker With Flat Forces
February 18, 2020 by brennon
WoFun Games and Peter's Paperboys have been tinkering on some goodies for the near future. The folks at WoFun are going to be working with the illustrations by Peter Dennis and creating a new collection of plexiglass flats for use in your historical games.
WoFun and Peter's Paperboys threw together some tests using the Jacobites & Redcoats range which Peter worked on a while back and you can see the result of their work above. Instead of cutting out each of the units with a craft knife you instead pop them out of their plexiglass frame and just pop them into a base.
I think this take on Peter Dennis' collection of artwork is a neat one indeed and it seems like the two companies agree. According to social media, the folks at WoFun are now going to begin work on creating the Texan Independence War collection in this new material.
Of course, this isn't going to be the material for everyone but I know that Gerry, in particular, is quite a fan of the options from WoFun. This effectively gives you a few new options for tinkering around with historical armies on the tabletop. You could either go for the cheap option and pick up the paper offerings from the Paperboys or go to that next level and pay extra to get the plexiglass alternative.
The Paperboys were quick to say that they wouldn't be swapping over to this format so if you're a big fan of paper crafting you still have plenty to look forward to. As a nice alternative, I can see this being quite popular, especially with the artwork from Peter Dennis taking things to the next level.
What do you make of the WoFun option?
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Very interesting news indeed
nice
I had a very close look at the WoFun stuff when it first came out but was put off by the faces which didn’t match the art style of the rest of the figures. I’m a big admirer of Peter Dennis’s art but never fancied the fiddly cutting and sticking involved for his Paperboys range. This looks like the perfect combination of art and technology. I might be tempted in finally.
Was that for the kickstarter or the updated designs right after? I have a fair few of the AWI range now and I was very impressed by the quality. They have since made further updates to the designs.
It was the KS that I looked into closely. Looking briefly at the AWI stuff on the website now they have evened out the difference in style between the face and the rest which is good. That art style doesn’t really resonate with me though. I’d still prefer the Peter Dennis stuff if they do make some.
Good to hear that the quality is good from a current owner, thanks.
I think there was feedback during the KS that backers weren’t fans of the oversized heads (which had been a deliberate design choice), and before the KS had finished WoFun decided to give the customers what they wanted and resized all the heads.
The 18mm ones Gerry showed me were excellent and cant remember anything strange about the faces
the KS they had much larger sized heads to a cartoonish degree, that I honestly didn’t mind, but in final production they redesigned the *entire* range to more normal proportions.
Great if you have limited space.
Great idea. As much as I think WoFun did well to actually do this I don’t like their artwork. This has got a lot of potential if it works out for both sides.
Depending on the point of view the experience here can really fall flat.
certainly less flat for the 18mm figures, the 28’s are definitely skinny though ^^