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Author Topic: Strontium Dog from Warlord Games  (Read 18625 times)


Offline Ultravanillasmurf

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Re: Strontium Dog from Warlord Games
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2018, 10:47:57 AM »
Not on Facebook, but the Durham Red figure shown here http://wargameterrain.blogspot.com/2018/06/breaking-warlord-games-new-strontium.html
sucks (YMMV).

Maybe recent artists draw her that way.
« Last Edit: June 22, 2018, 10:52:45 AM by Ultravanillasmurf »

Offline craigjwoodfield

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Re: Strontium Dog from Warlord Games
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2018, 10:54:19 AM »
Yep, it's not great.

Offline psyberwyche

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Re: Strontium Dog from Warlord Games
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2018, 11:21:38 AM »
I think any hope I was holding out that we'd finally get some really nice 2000AD figures just died  lol

Offline AWu

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Re: Strontium Dog from Warlord Games
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2018, 11:29:20 AM »
I like that gal, she has old school horror vive, something off with her legs though..

I love small alien!

Offline JollyBob

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Re: Strontium Dog from Warlord Games
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2018, 11:31:22 AM »
Not seeing anything to make me regret buying the Foundry versions before they were discontinued...  :?

The one of Wulf on the skimmer is pretty neat though, but the rest are distinctly meh...

Still, early days, maybe we'll get some Kreelers and a tanketto to recreate the great mutant uprising!

Offline Westfalia Chris

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Re: Strontium Dog from Warlord Games
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2018, 11:45:43 AM »
Not seeing anything to make me regret buying the Foundry versions before they were discontinued...  :?

The one of Wulf on the skimmer is pretty neat though, but the rest are distinctly meh...

Still, early days, maybe we'll get some Kreelers and a tanketto to recreate the great mutant uprising!

That, that, and THAT with a vengeance!

The Gronk is adorable, but the other figures somehow all look like they were photographed from a bad angle.

Offline AWu

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Re: Strontium Dog from Warlord Games
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2018, 02:01:43 PM »
Wulf skipped a leg day in the gym and changing angle wont help him much..

Offline Wachaza

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Re: Strontium Dog from Warlord Games
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2018, 02:49:14 PM »
The old Citadel versions are miles better.

Offline Nord

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Re: Strontium Dog from Warlord Games
« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2018, 03:07:27 PM »
It's not just me then, pretty disappointed in these  :(

Offline JollyBob

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Re: Strontium Dog from Warlord Games
« Reply #10 on: June 22, 2018, 03:25:11 PM »
Looking at the picture above, there seems something off with Wulf's shoulder joints too. They remind me of the awkward posing that the old Wargames Factory multipart figures that Warlord now sell have. Not great... :?

Offline Ultravanillasmurf

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Re: Strontium Dog from Warlord Games
« Reply #11 on: June 22, 2018, 06:22:22 PM »
First off, the Gronk is cute.

The proportions and articulation of Wulf are seriously off. The legs look like Sam Worthington's in Avatar. To my knowledge Wulf is base human.

Johnny Alpha just looks odd.

Oh, and was Carlos having a bad day in 1988?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durham_Red

Offline Cubs

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Re: Strontium Dog from Warlord Games
« Reply #12 on: June 22, 2018, 06:30:55 PM »
I saw the thread and thought, "Oh bum, just after I'd bought the Foundry ones back when they were having a clearout."

Then I saw the models and thought, "Thank Jehovah's sandals I bought the Foundry ones back when they were having a clearout."

Great paintjobs, but those are some … questionable figures. Johnny Alpha looks 'meh' and something odd is happening to his right arm. But Wulf is just awful. Sculptors who actually study anatomy and plan their sculpts properly, with the proportions correctly measured and the skeletons posed in achievable positions, will be wondering what on earth happened here. What a sad sad way to release what could be a great game and great licence acquisition.
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Offline Andym

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Re: Strontium Dog from Warlord Games
« Reply #13 on: June 22, 2018, 07:48:32 PM »
I saw the thread and thought, "Oh bum, just after I'd bought the Foundry ones back when they were having a clearout."

Then I saw the models and thought, "Thank Jehovah's sandals I bought the Foundry ones back when they were having a clearout."


Brilliant! lol lol lol

You think they would show off the better figures first! If Strontium Dog is your main protagonist, surely he should be the best figure? There was a picture of a game in progress and the other figures didn't look any better!

I had heard that this was just the start and that Warlord were waiting for the Megacity One/Dredd TV show.

Offline AWu

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Re: Strontium Dog from Warlord Games
« Reply #14 on: June 22, 2018, 07:49:20 PM »
Ive never seen those Foundry ones, but I  would buy me Toby the Dog for sure :(