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Author Topic: BEHOLD THE THREADOMANCY - Pig faced orc identification challenge Part 2!  (Read 1622 times)

Offline timoteigoldenhighlights

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Hi everyone - thanks for casting your eyes over this little mystery model...

No base or slotta :(
nearly 28mm foot to eye, 50mm foot to tip of the spear.
discovered in the uk. Found at a bootfair in a dirty old tin full of citadel beastmen.

Scoured the citadel catalogues, I cant find any reference to him. So am guessing he's from another range. He's got a bit of a pig-snout for a nose and tusks; I know in the early dungeons and dragons days there was a tradition of pig-snouted orcs - perhaps an orc rather than a beastman?



Does anybody recognise the features?

Can anybody recommend some contemporary manufacturers who were putting stuff out in the 1984-1988 time period? (its an assumption, thats the date of all the citadel models I found alongside him)

wishing a great day to all
« Last Edit: September 07, 2021, 03:30:54 PM by timoteigoldenhighlights »

Offline mweaver

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Re: can anybody help identify this mini?
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2019, 04:18:34 PM »
I tried an internet image search (BING), and success!  He was manufactured by some company called Donotello.


Offline timoteigoldenhighlights

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Re: can anybody help identify this mini?
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2019, 04:26:25 PM »
Mine must be the winter-coat version!

Offline Elk101

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Re: /UNSOLVED/ can anybody help identify this mini?
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2019, 05:39:46 PM »
Not seen one like that before. It's ugly but has a certain charm at the same time. Interesting that there's no fixed base or evidence of a slotta tab. Now I want to find out what it is!

I was just thinking that it reminds me a little of the 1978 Ralph Bakshi orcs.
« Last Edit: July 16, 2019, 05:57:33 PM by Elk101 »

Offline Hobgoblin

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Re: /UNSOLVED/ can anybody help identify this mini?
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2019, 06:00:36 PM »
He's from Gremlin Miniatures (Chariot crew, orc 3).

Offline timoteigoldenhighlights

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Re: /UNSOLVED/ can anybody help identify this mini?
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2019, 06:09:54 PM »
LOL! This forum!
how do you do it!
a week of my life!
Hobgoblin, thank you. Slightly amazing!
and the base - it wasn't cut - he was meant to be mounted.

Gremlin miniatures, well well well - thats a new one!

Offline Elk101

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Re: ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY HOBGOBLIN, solver of impossible puzzles!
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2019, 06:27:28 PM »
Nice work! The chariot crew thing probably explains the base too.

Offline timoteigoldenhighlights

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Re: BEHOLD THE THREADOMANCY! - Miniature Identification Challenge Update!
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2021, 03:30:12 PM »
I have 2 challenges for you bored or most expert LAFers!

First up - another pig-faced orc!

And as my previous little gremlin orc now resides in the leadmountain of the greathobgoblin, this was my only picture here on the thread to potentially inform investigations.



I do note on Hobgoblin's link to the lost miniatures wiki there was a reference to a Gremlin miniatures Trebuchet and small catapult - I'm tempted to say - could this be one of the crew?

So I enquire of the community - does anybody have a gremlin catapult or trebuchet and could confirm?




Offline timoteigoldenhighlights

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Re: BEHOLD THE THREADOMANCY - Pig faced orc identification challenge Part 2!
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2021, 01:27:06 PM »
Just snippets of clues... a 1986 advert in Adventurer magazine...

https://i.imgur.com/aGFE0zB.jpg

Possible IDs:

OC44
Small Catapult & 3 Crew

OC45
Trebuchet & 3 Crew

OC46
Siege Tower & 4 Crew

OC47
Battering Ram & 6 Crew

Anybody have any leads on any of these figures?

Fellow Greybeards?  :D
« Last Edit: October 28, 2021, 01:28:48 PM by timoteigoldenhighlights »

 

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