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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: ArtizanDesigns on July 13, 2007, 03:05:47 PM
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Hi Guys,
Wanted to show you guys some of the new figures we'll be releasing late next week(or early the week after depending on workload !)
Mike had an idea of some white russian types to fight against the Sky pirates / nacht jager ( or anyone really) , based in the HQ deep in the Himalayas :-
(http://www.artizandesigns.com/images/artizanpreview1.jpg)
He's almost finished 2 more of them ( including 1 female) so there will be 7 available on release together.
Another one-off figure I love is Miss Marbles (Lady sleuth)
(http://www.artizandesigns.com/images/marbles.jpg)
Expect about 12 or 13 figures in the release, enough to keep you painting a few days ;-)
Dylan
COMPETITION NEWS !!!!!!
We've been racking our brains to come up with a good name for the White Russian faction ( ie - not names for each individual figure) and decided to make a quick mini-competition. It's running here and on our Yahoo group.
So you've got the weekend to come up with the best name for the Russians - winner gets all of the figures from next weeks Thrilling Tales release for free.
Submit your names here and Mike and me will go through them on monday. (You wont get any replies from me this weekend, I'm off to my sisters wedding until sunday)
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God! Wow! These russians are fantastic!
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How should people not on the message board submit entries?
Email via the website?
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You can also email entries to me :- dylan@artizandesigns.com
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my favourites are the guys in greatcoats totting their PPS-45s' :D
this is historical but sufficiently obscure so might fit;
I read an article in the newspapers recently which talked about the Ukrainians who fought on the side of the Germans in WW2 under the command of a General Vlasov, apparently a former Hero of the Soviet Union who subsequently organized Ukrainians and others into units to fight alongside the Germans against the Soviets. His men were called the Vlasovzi. Might work for you.
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Those White Russians are very nice! I'll probably use the ones in the greatcoats as Artic explorers! :)
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God! Wow! These russians are fantastic!
Somehow I had an itch that you would like the russians...
:wink:
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So lurvly. Seriously, White Russians are an awesome pulp faction. So very cool.
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Lovely models, I think as to a name it would have to be the ill fated protectors "the Guardians of Anastasia" :D
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The Tsargrad Horde
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The last gasp tzarists
Really like the white Russian figures, so full of character! :love:
Miss Marbles is great too.
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Oooh. Oooh. 'The Sons of Nevski'. Or perhaps 'The Novgorod Kommando' or 'The Carpathian Kommando'. Patriotic Heroes of The Motherland all!
I'm also quite drawn by 'Wolves of The Hungry Steppe'...
Or how about 'The Snow Leopards' or 'Sentinels of The Roof of The World' or...
Hey, I can keep this up all night. How many entries are we allowed? :wink:
PS. Please let the bald guy be called Ivan Arstikov
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And the Woman Cheusda Titzoff :D
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How about
VIBORNIE STRELSKI
:love: Great figures, althought their sympathies may have to be deep red on my wargames tables!!
Their leader will be Inoff the Red. :lol:
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How about
VIBORNIE STRELSKI
Nice! ('Elite sharpshooters' I think?)
I've got one more, then I'll leave it alone :)
'The Astrakhan Guards'
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Thanks Kap'n
I'm no expert but I think it might equally mean 'Chosen rifles' 8)
The other idea i had was a joke on Charlies Angels
maybe KARLOVY ANGELY ?
The other thing i dug up on google was some of the commentaries on modern Russia by a chap called Charles KRAUTHAMMER, just how cool is that name!!
:lol:
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The best I could think of was something like "Aeronevski".
If they are Tsarist aviators I suppose you could opt for the White Eagles ? or pehaps something like the Eagles of Uzbekistan ?
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How about
The Ice Holes :D
Seriously, that's my entry. What do I win?
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Actually, just the plain old 'The White Guard' works for me.
By the way, is Miss Marbles about to plunge her sink, or is that a stick grenade she's carrying?
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By the way, is Miss Marbles about to plunge her sink, or is that a stick grenade she's carrying?
Perhaps she's just defeated a dalek? :mrgreen:
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Perhaps she's just defeated a dalek? :mrgreen:
Ha ha! Disarmed him no doubt. :mrgreen:
Okay, while I'm here, just a few more suggestions, then I promise to shut up with the Russki names:
The Siberian Tigers (or maybe The Trans-Siberian Tigers!)
Pavlov's Dogs (they've been beaten so often, they're starting to like it)
The Das Vidanya Club (as in, 'das vidanya and goodnight' - rat-tat-tat)
The Tashkent Assassins
Sentinels of The Silk Road
The Children of Rasputin
Back to the vodka...
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The Miss Marbles mini popped an idea in my head:
"Why not some Foyle's War minis?"
Foyle with Samantha his driver, Sgt. Millner, would be all worthy additions IMO.
And to all the ignorant guys :wink: out there who do not know Foyles War, see here:
http://www.foyleswar.com/
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Kolliov's Kommandos?
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How about "The Stranski"?
As far as I'm aware it doesnt mean anything, just sounds good! (In my opinion)
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One more late entry...
'The Romanov Apparat'
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Cheers guys for all the effort.
we'll be announcing the winner tomorrow ( as well as releasing the new figures)
Dylan
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Komrad Killers
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those are fantastic sculpts. I can add those coat to my sherpas and yeti for a new encounter!
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The figs are in the webshop now :love:
Ordered all of them already :mrgreen:
Don't tell my General, PLEASE!
Z.
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You beat me to it !!! :-)
COMPETITION RESULTS
Thanks for all the entries to name the new russian faction.
The winner was fortean_us with Koschei's Cossacks. He'll be receiving all 12 of the new Thrilling Tales figures as a prize.
We also liked Mike Watson's suggestion of Muromets' Old Guard and ended up using Murometz as a name for one of the figures so we'll be sending him a few of the Cossacks also.
And yes the figures are for sale:-
(http://www.artizandesigns.com/images/thrilling4.jpg)
(http://www.artizandesigns.com/images/thrilling5.jpg)
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WOOOO-HOOOOO!!!! I finally found my Poirot mini I been looking for!!!!
Chuck
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IMHO the best release in the series so far. I'm only a bit courius about the choice for the russian machine guns. Whites with soviet guns from the 30ies/40ies?
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Humm, I´m no expert on small arms minutiae, but to me, those look more like Bergmanns rather than PPSHs... and I think those were around in the 1920s, or am I confusing things?!?
:?:
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Love that Poirot figure. :love: These just keep getting better and better :D
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Humm, I´m no expert on small arms minutiae, but to me, those look more like Bergmanns rather than PPSHs... and I think those were around in the 1920s, or am I confusing things?!?
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Bergmans, yes, and that's what I took them for at first. But Viewing the larger pics on Artizans Website they don't look like MP18/28. Maybe the angle is wrong, but it seems the drum magazine is at the bottom (the bergman drum was at the side). To me it looks like a PPD34/38, maybe a PPD40. The only LMG that looks similar to the one in the release is the DP28.
Mind me, as these figures are for pulp I won't critisise anachronisms (hey, these are early prototypes) or whites using red equipment (booty - or the reds stole the white prototypes later on!).
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Hummm... Maik, are you sure that you are no Redneck Militiaman with a budding gun fetish? :lol:
Interesting to know!
However, just as you pointed out, I don´t really care in a pulp environment... and for those obsessed people, I guess one could convert the figs by repositioning the mags?
It IS a bit awkward, though, indeed.
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Top miniatures, Rick is a must have :wink:
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You know, what's missing is a Corto Maltese-style Rasputin for the whites!
(http://lsirpeople.epfl.ch/despotovic/rasputin.gif)
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I had a quick mooch in my nearest wargames emporium today, to find that happily, they have just started carrying packs of Artizan's Thrilling Tales range. Rah!
Interestingly however, rather than individual figures, they are carrying packs of three different figures such as 'three pulp heroines' or 'Sky Pirate raiders'.
This 'bundled' option on these figures doesn't appear on the Artizan website, so maybe it's a new departure...
Rather dimly, I didn't notice if the three figure packs were actually cheaper than the 6.00 GBP face value if one bought the three figures individually... Doh!
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I think they have been doing the triple-packs since they introduced the Thrilling Tales range (though no-one in Manchester stocks them :? ). That's why the new releases are often in groups of figures! :wink:
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Well, that just goes to show how little attention I've been paying! :oops:
Wonder why Artizan only sell them as singles online?
Not that I'm complaining - I'm no fan of 'the tyranny of the pack'! (I have far too much lead sitting unused because I wanted a pack for just two or three out of six or eight figures... )
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If you hadn't seen them in a shop you weren't to know! :mrgreen:
There was a reason given for the triple/single pack decision, but I have no memory of what it was! It seemed logical at the time...
:D
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When first released the line was mail order only for single figures. I think it was because the range was small and just starting out.