A sense of scale

Heres a pic showing one of the many oddities of PA's fantasy miniature range. As you can see, there is three distinctly different scales of miniatures. They were all part of the friends & foes range. But the masters for the figures were made att different time and I suspect by different sculptors.

The ghoul is part of the first range of fantasy moulds released by PA back in 1983, and today called the classic fantasy armies moulds. The man-at-arms were released as part of the later series of fantasy moulds and has a different design for it's base. This particular base design was only used for the men-at-arms (mould 674) and the orc artillery crew (mould 672). They are also taller then the older figures but at the same time shorter and less detailed then the later ones. 

I don't know of any other miniature ranges by other manufacturers that have sculpts that are so different that the miniatures don't work well together. To me it looks like PA didn't have a well thought out plan when they started to release their fantasy line. And as time past they tried to alter there products to compete in different markets. First fantasy roll playing, then fantasy wargaming and then back to roll playing and finally a last attempt to break in to the wargaming market with the Fantasy Command concept.

From left to right BA2, FG8 and GH3.