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Other Stuff => General Wargames and Hobby Discussion => Topic started by: ErikB on 28 September 2017, 06:16:08 PM
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The first to come to mind include these guys, the Obelisk Miniatures Undead Baluchis. There is a ton of character in them and they are such an obscure, creative idea.
(http://www.darkestafrica.de/images/obelisk/zombie/obelisk_baluchi_zombies.jpg)
Also, I really like the Jomsviking elite minis from Saga:
(http://www.corehammer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SJ02_Jomsvikings_One_Hearthguard_4_1_Point_53024.jpeg)
(https://www.grippingbeast.co.uk/userfiles/images/sys/products/Jomsvikings_Two_Hearthguard_4_1_Point_86054.jpeg)
And Footsore's Late Roman series. Here are just a few pictures. There is more in the series than this:
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0657/9717/products/03LRM100.jpg?v=1417089333)
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0657/9717/products/FM_Late_Roman_Elite_Group.jpg?v=1422322371)
What are your all-time favorite sets?
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Difficult question! So many to choose from!
I have to agree about the Footsore Dark Ages range. Empress Miniatures do a load of absolutely beautiful figures, and I'm always impressed by Curteys/1st Corps stuff...
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...Obelisk Miniatures Undead Baluchis...
What are your all-time favorite sets?
Are those Undead Baluchis still available anywhere?
For me, anything from Pulp Figures, Foundry Darkest Africa, Copplestone, of course. Particulalry the Gangster range.
Anyway, from Pulp Figures:
(http://www.orctrader.co.uk/Images/PULP/WS1.jpg)
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Are those Undead Baluchis still available anywhere?
I think so. Here's the website.
http://www.obeliskminiatures.com/
I feel horrible - I cannot remember the owner's name. Really nice guy.
He does such nice work (including many of Wargame Foundry's Aztecs).
He was also a real delight via email. His English is excellent so if you have difficulties with the website then don't worry.
Now you have me considering another purchase... might have to be careful or my wife will turn me into one of those undead baluchis....
There's also an excellent range of female Africans with spears and shields. Don't forget the camel-mounted undead baluchis, either.
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I think so. Here's the website.
http://www.obeliskminiatures.com/
I feel horrible - I cannot remember the owner's name. Really nice guy.
Josef Ochmann. I thought he had retired. Great if these are still for sale. I'll email first. Thanks. :)
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Too many to choose from, but the shortlist comes almost exclusively from the 1980's Citadel boxed sets and Regiments of Renown.
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Josef Ochmann. I thought he had retired. Great if these are still for sale. I'll email first. Thanks. :)
I just pinged him and sent him a link to this thread.
Re-reading his emails - really, really nice guy. I hope he is doing well and is still in the business.
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I'd have to say that one of my personal favourite sets are the Denizen Mid tech troopers. They're proper 25mm figures but considering their age they're still cracking sculpts.
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Classic Cooper and the skirt.
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I just pinged him and sent him a link to this thread.
Re-reading his emails - really, really nice guy. I hope he is doing well and is still in the business.
He's not, and hasn't been for a while.
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=61797.0
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Hi Chinese Tong are in production with Tsuba IIRC and produced by Empress.
He's not, and hasn't been for a while.
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=61797.0
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On an overall basis, the Tercio Creativo figures are so fluid and beautifully sculpted in general. There's a number of French and Spanish sculptors who fit that mold.
I'd also say Copplestone's BoB sets are incredibly solid across the whole line.
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The classic 3rd editon Jes Goodwin Elves drew me into the hobby late 80's. And I still got a soft spot for the Citadel Aly Morisson 1985-1987 Undead.
But there's too much too choose from, really impossible...
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I somehow missed them the first time around (maybe I'd stopped getting WD by then but I really love the Perry Bretonnian Archers and Squires. Very historically inspired fantasy stuff. I picked some up in the Bizarre a few years ago and then some more at a reasonable price on ebay. Lovely models.
In fact, a lot of those Bretonnians from that era and a bit earlier, particularly the men at arms and retainers are cracking little sculpts. I still search for reasonably priced ones on ebay from time to time. I actually think the plastic archers from this era are good too, monoposed yes but nice little fillers (if you ignore the kettle hat bow issue).
Aside from this, I have some Crooked Claw Kev Adams Goblins that are a joy to behold too. I know some of Kevs work gets knocked as 'happy orcs' and there is a period where the Games Workshop ones were a bit too goofy for my taste, but the Crooked Claw Gobbos in the main, are pretty malevolent looking.
There are plenty more figures that I consider to be 'nice' but these two ranges I have been spurred to back the only crowdfunder I have backed in the case of the Goblins and spend a little more than I would normally to get hold of some in the case of the Brets.
If you gave me a choice though, Id rather have the entire range of 1990s Bretonnian Men at arms and archers, over the entire range of Kev Adams Goblins.
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You wont believe this, but one of my absolute favorit set is the Games Workshop Coven Throne
(https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/600x620/99120207019_CovenThroneNEW03.jpg)
The various parts ahave fantastic gothic detail and the various parts very useful each by itself.
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You wont believe this, but...
What's not to believe? It's an incredible mini, holding up a lot of mass with what appears to be ghostly cloth or smoke blowing in the wind. Pretty cool.
What throws me off a little bit is that the cloth, fire, and smoke don't all appear (to me) to be moving the same.
Still, incredible "miniature."
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I am drawn between just about anything from Pulp Figures and Bronze Age Miniatures' not-Barsoomians.
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The Artizan Pulp figures are a firm favourite too, as are their Old West stuff.
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I am drawn between just about anything from Pulp Figures and Bronze Age Miniatures' not-Barsoomians.
I like their Amazons and undead Hoplites, too.
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Games Workshop's original Confrontation line. I love it to bits.
As for individual minis, I'd have to say John Blanche's 40k conversions are just stunning.
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Mark Copplestones 28mm Barbarians for Grenadier.
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Mine are either the old Citadel Fantasy Tribe lines or the Dragontooth Personality packs. Still missing 4 from the line but I live in hope :D
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wdoN8uiVMqc/Vp0nAZPUdsI/AAAAAAAAIc4/vOgE-IIscMI/s320/P22%2B8.jpg)(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uj9FhGpQEp4/VlWcD0PmlaI/AAAAAAAAIYA/YYz30Kzxhzw/s320/P35%2BWitch%2Bw%2Bbroomstick%2B3.jpg)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mOPoyQqOyQE/Uz2xa4WFXHI/AAAAAAAAFns/8-EMIz_MVF0/s1600/DSC03285.JPG)(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lLa55kH1TZI/UF8TITlsMoI/AAAAAAAABCc/Aje9lGjEvwg/s320/DSC00638.JPG)
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Battletech unseens...first contact ever with metal minis
Warhammer Undead 90s learned how to paint
Incursion. Best style ever for me
Statuesque pulp alley best example for modern minis
Uncle Mike Strange Aeons. Best example that a mini must not be perfect to be full of life
My personal top 5
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Anything Airfix as that is what I started with. If forced to pick a particular set, then for various criteria:
Goofy poses: British Commandos. How many guys carrying canoes do you need?
Classic nostalgia: original German infantry set, particularly the poor panzerfaust figure who everyone thought was the loader for the panzerschreck.
Nice figures: second edition Afrika Korps set. Lovely figures.
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Hmmm....
GW's plastic Cadians (my first real war gaming army).
Indus Miniatures War in India range (probably because it is so unique... and the sculpting is very nice).
Footsore Miniatures Irish, Romano-Britons and their Armies of The Caliphates (especially the Ghulams).
Artizan Miniatures Andalusians (I liked painting them so much).
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1999, by Cell Entertainment. I've been hunting them for years. Wonderful stuff!
http://displacedminiatures.com/LeadAsbestos2010/gallery/3154/
http://displacedminiatures.com/LeadAsbestos/gallery/354/
http://displacedminiatures.com/LeadAsbestos/gallery/1581/
http://displacedminiatures.com/LeadAsbestos/gallery/355/
And China Town, by Stone Circle Games
http://displacedminiatures.com/LeadAsbestos2010/gallery/3024/
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Mine are either the old Citadel Fantasy Tribe lines or the Dragontooth Personality packs. Still missing 4 from the line but I live in hope :D
might be rose-tinted, but I don't think the original citadel fantasy tribe minis have ever been bested in that area.
I had a bunch of the dwarves (when you could still buy fantasy dwarves that had legs) painted up for a demo game at the original (pre-Ansell) gamesday in London ... long, long time ago.
I guess my faves overall remain the deeply untrendy Peter Gilder figures of Hinchliffe's glory yrs and then his own Connoisseur Miniatures - particularly the latter.
They had an impressionistic quality by modern standards, and were dynamically animated. And sympathetically painted they still do it for me.
There was a late Feathertone 'overview' book on the hobby I remember, the cover for which was the most extraordinary Gilder'ised Italian wars set-up (diorama really).
The charging Gendarmes having a sense of motion and drama that you just don't get with later sculpting styles.
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This almost feels like an impossible question. I appreciate new miniatures and releases will always grab my attention but there is still a residual attraction to the forms of the miniatures I grew up with. I have a terrible toy soldier problem but hand sculpted model with slight exaggeration of features are a joy to paint. Elk101 mentioned Artizan sculpts and I'd also like to add to that the Brigade Old Wests that try to match them. The North Star figures have a lot of the same charm and I would be really happy to find a time machine a repaint the Grenadier fantasy models I had a kid.
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Don't know if they qualify as a set but this pair are extremely nice sculpts by one of the members of this forum I believe.
I give you Miri and Samanda.
(https://i.imgur.com/1QYSLLk.jpg)
More please Andrew!
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Interesting to see that people's favorites are often selected due to sentimental value as opposed to necessarily being excellent quality sculpts.
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For nostalgic reasons Marauder Dwarfs. For mon nostaligic reasons (even though they are old figures) the Mark Copplestone Barbarians he did for Grenadier just make me want to paint.
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Interesting to see that people's favorites are often selected due to sentimental value as opposed to necessarily being excellent quality sculpts.
Yeah. You could argue that nearly all purchases made are for emotional rather than practical reasons (hard to think of a practical reason to buy mins at all!) and it's certainly the case with me. I know the old models don't compare to some of the new stuff produced today, in quality of cast, crispness of the sculpt as well as dynamism of pose, etc... but the old guys do have that magic (not all of them it must be said) that I can't resist.
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Old Jess Goodwin Craftworld Eldar
This Dire Avenger Exarch epitomes that line. Alle were great and still is. Some of the sculpts wasnt beated two miniature editions later..
They made me play with miniatures in the first place even if I started with epic (but Eldar because of them :)
(https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/600x620/99060104020_AvengerExarchDireswordMTO01.jpg)
Another is first edition Necromunda line.
I love whole and collected most of it, but I will get all of them
Another Jess Goodwins instant classic - They were my first love but I love all of them to be honest
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d0/a5/b7/d0a5b78b753e49e5a3d6108402d6f3eb--escher-miniatures.jpg)
Coven Throne Hammers posted is one of my favorites from new GW. I dont have any use for it really but its so great model - from concept to execution in plastic that Ive invented myself Undead for Dragon rampant project just to get it!
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Interesting to see that people's favorites are often selected due to sentimental value as opposed to necessarily being excellent quality sculpts.
Technical quality is attractive but it isn't enough. Crisp detail and well engineered casts seem to be more an expectation than something notable now. I'd liken it to a gesture drawing. It's possible to say a lot more with a well chosen lines than a heavily worked illustration. When I look at a figure I want it to tell me a story. There has to be one there that draws me in. The painting is the expression of the story that I saw in the model. ithout ever having met the sculptor you have shared a creative experience. Some nice models are just nice models.
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For nostalgic reasons Marauder Dwarfs.
Seconded. Also, the night goblins, perry empire, jes's skaven, and early metal high elves from the same time (circa 1992) largely because of all the batreps and eavy metal coverage they got in WD at the time but also god damn they're drenched with character.
Beyond that the chaos champions, RTB01 terminators, beakies, all the eldar (especially that sword warlock) and more or less everything Jes ever did.
Yeah, impossible question.
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Perry sculpted GW Empire. Fantastic range completely filled out. My army was featured in WD210 while I worked at GW in the late 90s.
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Demonworld Elves. Beautiful!
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What a great thread. Some really good stuff here.
I've got a few favorites. Nothing groundbreaking, but these all hold a special place in my minaitures pantheon.
-I like nearly all the first generation GW Necromunda figures but the Van Saar and Escher are my favorites of the batch.
(http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/10/9/653476_md-.JPG)
My buddy painted the Escher for me.
(http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2015/8/30/740174.JPG)
-Denizen Ventaurans. Nice variety, remarkably sharp and fine detail and one of the best bargains in high-quality minaitures. The sculpting really holds up and only the slightly static poses and smaller size (about 27mm sole-to-eye with very realistic proportions) hints at their 25-30 year age!
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7cMaQl4fVTE/Ulsaga6bVII/AAAAAAAAEko/Ggs3XYCbMp0/s1600/20131013_125035.jpg)
-GW Squats. I can't help it. I love these goofy bastards.
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2013/2/5/460810_md-.JPG)
-Void 1.1 Junkers. (I realize there's a Warzone commander in there...)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QCCnbmTlKSo/Tqb2Y5r223I/AAAAAAAAA3k/-gPbRrGIOCg/s1600/IMG_3104.jpg)
I've got the figs and I swear I'll finish the Junker and Squat armies someday...
I hadn't thought about it until now but my favorites haven't changed much over the years. The most recent addition to the club was the Venaturans and that was at least 7 years ago.