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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: tabletop on March 04, 2007, 08:06:03 PM

Title: Cairo People
Post by: tabletop on March 04, 2007, 08:06:03 PM

Say, can anybody recommend a 28mm manufacturer that does a line of Cairo bystanders? I'm looking for fez wearing gentlemen in disha dashas, wily street urchins etc.

Basically any Egyptian civilians NOT wielding pistols, musketry or swords...

Title: Cairo People
Post by: lgkmas on March 04, 2007, 09:40:36 PM

Try Eureka Miniaures. Their 28mm range under civilians and vignettes has a market stall and about a dozen different arab type civilians, including urchins.
try this link
http://eurekamin.com.au/product_info.php?cPath=87_126_138&products_id=1778

regards
Bob

Title: Cairo People
Post by: Hammers on March 04, 2007, 10:22:21 PM

West Wind makes them to. Look under Chaos in Kairo.

Title: Cairo People
Post by: tabletop on March 04, 2007, 11:59:47 PM

Thanks lgkmas, those Eureka figures aren't great but they're passable for hapless bystanders.

hammershield, you couldn't provide a link at all? All I can see under West Winds CiC pages is a handful of adventurers...

Title: Cairo People
Post by: Hammers on March 05, 2007, 09:49:30 AM

Quote from: "tabletop"

Thanks lgkmas, those Eureka figures aren't great but they're passable for hapless bystanders.

They are not bad at all. Some are quitre humorous, if you are of simple tastes like me. One's selling a chicken, a woman is rooting through a bargain bin. You could also consider the indian civilian packs. Some of the male miniatures could pass for arabs.

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hammershield, you couldn't provide a link at all? All I can see under West Winds CiC pages is a handful of adventurers...

Well slap my face and call me Sally! They must have dropped them from the range because they are no longer listed on the West Wind site. I did howerver find them at Old Glory which is the US distributor.

http://www.oldgloryminiatures.com/products.asp?cat=502

I have mixed in some african civilians from Foundry in my Zanzibar street scene.

Title: Cairo People
Post by: tabletop on March 08, 2007, 12:08:26 AM

Thanks hammershield! I ordered a bunch of stuff from OG yesterday...

Now the long wait begins :(... (I live in Auckland, New Zealand).

Title: Cairo People
Post by: tabletop on May 15, 2007, 04:18:52 AM

Finally got around to applying some paint to the West Wind Cairo civilians I ordered a couple of months ago. Not stellar paint jobs like some I've seen on here, but passable for bystanders for Pulp gaming I hope!

(http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/stu/archives/2007/paintedCairoCrowd.JPG)

Title: Cairo People
Post by: Argonor on May 15, 2007, 11:07:38 AM

Absolutely passable if you ask me! Could I just pull myself together and get some of my own westwind civilians done, I'd be happy to paint them to that standard  :)

Title: Cairo People
Post by: Operator5 on May 15, 2007, 11:54:10 AM

That's passable? Sheesh! Looks like I just paint crap then.  :D

Great job Stu.

Title: Cairo People
Post by: Malamute on May 15, 2007, 01:10:50 PM

Yep, I agree, nothing wrong with those paint jobs :love:

Title: Cairo People
Post by: tabletop on May 15, 2007, 09:55:00 PM

Thanks all. Civilians are harder to paint than I initially thought because you actually have to make some interesting colour choices!

I guess I'm too used to painting WWII DAK Germans with their green/grey/khaki uniforms, or Baluchi Zombies who are mostly brown. I had force myself to add some colour to these three rather than paint them all brown and white :)

I'm not sure what's wrong with the chap in the middle either, because he's been sculpted with a very odd face. I think he's meant to represent some kind of wounded beggar (judging from his hands) or other unfortunate.

Title: Cairo People
Post by: Hammers on May 16, 2007, 08:48:28 AM

Agreed. And you have made some good choices.

I am currently painting a 20 or so miniture  mix of WestWind and Eureka Middleeasterners and I am somewhat struggling with coming up with new combinations of tans, whites and a splash of color.

And yes, West Wind puts some odd faces and poses on some of their miniatures.

Title: Cairo People
Post by: Colonel Tubby on May 17, 2007, 06:15:22 PM

I also note that the new Blue Moon Miniature set 'I Just Don't feel My Age' has some nice Cario Civilians - including a nice looking digger with a shovel!

Title: Cairo People
Post by: tabletop on May 17, 2007, 10:38:58 PM

Say you couldn't provide a link to those Cairo civvies you mention could you? A 10 second Google search failed to find me Blue Moon Miniatures...

Thanks!

Title: Cairo People
Post by: dominic on May 17, 2007, 11:24:43 PM

Lovely paint job!

Title: Cairo People
Post by: Colonel Tubby on May 18, 2007, 07:06:07 PM

Quote from: "tabletop"

Say you couldn't provide a link to those Cairo civvies you mention could you? A 10 second Google search failed to find me Blue Moon Miniatures...

Thanks!

Sorry, forgot the link!  :D I found them on the Old Glory site, bottom of thier catalouge list:


http://www.oldgloryuk.com/index.php?c=

One day I will get a handle on this technology thingy!

Title: Cairo People
Post by: Argonor on May 20, 2007, 11:26:17 AM

Are the Blue Moon minis 'true' 25 mm or more in line with the common 28 mm?. (I think, someone may have answered that one somewhere else already, but I do not remember..)

Title: Cairo People
Post by: jlstuht on May 20, 2007, 04:23:55 PM

Quote from: "Argonor"

Are the Blue Moon minis 'true' 25 mm or more in line with the common 28 mm?.

Checking against some Pulp Figure minis I have on the painting table, they are just a tad taller and slightly heftier but easily useable together with all the present 28mm figs.

Title: Cairo People
Post by: Argonor on May 21, 2007, 01:14:20 PM

Okies, thanks... not that I plan buying more stuff at the moment, but it's always nice to know  :)