Are Wargames Foundry Foot Knights OOP Bretonnians?

[Tengumaster89]

Hey everyone,
I am someone who was categorizing knight-related minis on my computer, and when I saw the war games foundry\'s site, I noticed that the foot knights seemed familiar. Here is a link to their foot knights page:
http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/MED/3/index.asp

Here is a page out of an old citadel catalog:
http://www.solegends.com/citcat912/c20230brettinf.htm

Is it me, or are the new foundry foot knight minis the same casts as the old bretonnians? How is this possible?

 

[Undave]

Wargames Foundry kind of grew out of the Perry twins enthusiasm for historical wargaming. As I remember it they started Foundry using new sculpts of their own and some suitable minis from the old Bretonnian range. Foundry was part owned by GW and GW employees supposedly got a discount from them, unfortunately I never took advantage of this when I had the chance. The Perrys have since moved on to their own sculpting company and I\'m not sure whether Foundry is still tied to GW or not.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by Undave
Wargames Foundry kind of grew out of the Perry twins enthusiasm for historical wargaming. As I remember it they started Foundry using new sculpts of their own and some suitable minis from the old Bretonnian range. Foundry was part owned by GW and GW employees supposedly got a discount from them, unfortunately I never took advantage of this when I had the chance. The Perrys have since moved on to their own sculpting company and I\'m not sure whether Foundry is still tied to GW or not.

It\'s a separate company, but it has so many ties to GW that it may as well be family. Let\'s face it Bryan Ansell was part and parcel of the original GW team.
And while the Perrys may have sculpted some of the items I understand that they were never part of the ownership.

Yes GW staff still can get discount, as long as they don\'t abuse the priviledge, just the same as with GW\'s own products.

 

[Undave]

Yeah I knew Foundry existed but I never took that much notice when I was at GW. It was only after I left that I got into historical stuff..... or maybe it was because I left....