Slitherine

Rather than invest in new packaging, manufacturers/dealers could design a pamphlet or loose leaf pages showing pictures of figures/armies similar to hardware or auto parts product notebooks that hang by the shelves displaying these products. When I first started painting armies (several decades ago) hobby shops had mounted individual figures on sprues so one could inspect them before ordering. While this is no doubt too expensive in stock and display space in this day and age, brochure production is cheaper than ever. If the manufacturer produced the pages, the retailer could print them.

hammy wrote:

bobm wrote:Peter Pig do box sets of biblical and EIR ranges, the boxes are then suitable for figure storage. True 15mm size figures. The sets are aimed at their Conquerors and Kings rules which has units of 4 bases so will have considerable overlap with FOG.

But do they look good on the shelves of a game store?

Most of the UK manufacturers do FoG starter army packs but their presentation is poo, just a plain brown box with a label saying what the army is.

What I am really looking for is something more like the WarModelling range but not made in euro land.

As I recall they're in black "box files" with a picture on the spine indicating the contents. Better than the average nondescript brown box with label but not exactly awe inspiring. The range is limited too, NKE, EIR, Germans and Parthians. Good figures though!