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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: B. Basiliscus on 18 September 2010, 02:58:37 PM
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So I have this soft spot for monsters/fantasy races that comprise of half human half animal creatures.
Problem is, I have trouble finding much in that area outside of were-animals, gnolls, beastmen, and hulking monsters with teeth and claws the size of your head.
Let's dedicate this thread to all the fine civilized furry folk and the figures therein that we know of, so that it may be used as a resource for others in need of such a genre.
Let's keep it mostly mammalian though.
We can have a thread for reptile people if the need and want is great enough.
I know reaper has at their disposal a faction of rather savage looking lycanthropes, called Koborlas, which I'm fairly certain are bigger than the average human mini.
http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Koborlas
While the female models are dainty and quite nice, I find the males repulsively savage and over the top.
(http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4962/rkwolfs2.jpg)
(http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/1244/rkwolfs.jpg)
Reaper also manufactures other models that meet the criteria, albeit not very many.
(http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/3813/reaperfurfags.jpg)
(http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/1397/reaperfurfags2.jpg)
(http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/7729/reaperfurfags3.jpg)
(http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/5838/reaperfurfags4.jpg)
Rackham has an utterly monstrous line of feral lycanthropes called The Wolfen.
I own a few, and I must say that the quality is exquisite (if hideous).
(http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/782/wfch021b1.jpg)
(http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/7748/wfch022a1.jpg)
(http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2766/wfel071a1.jpg)
(http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/3356/357pl021.jpg)
So lets have at it!
Post all that comes to mind on the subject of cultured animal men and women.
No beast men if you please. :-I
Edit, Nov/7/11I cannot emphasize this enough, figures to be put into this thread MUST have normal human proportions. No beast men, no chaos spawned, no rapant drooling mutants and no fucking mouselings.
Just furries.
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Most Rackham figures left me indifferent, but I loved the old metal wolfen figures.
Crocodile Games does a beautiful line of cat people, the Basti.
(https://www.crocodilegames.com/content/storeImg/WGE-801.jpg)
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And Dark Sword has recently done a few smaller critters (mostly mammals). My favorite:
(http://www.darkswordminiatures.com/mainwebsite_html/gallery/images/miniatures/v_7956_f_p.jpg)
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Oddly enough, I was talking to a sculptor just last week about such a project. I have been wanting to build a game for my daughter, she is 3 this weekend, so a few more years till she can play, but I am a slow painter and terrain builder, so that should be just enough time! Anyway, I was looking to do something like a medieval theme, woodland critters, clothes, weapons, and all. I am looking at a skirmish level effort; maybe 50 figures in the line, maybe as much as 100, will have to see if anyone buys them first. I open to any ideas anyone might have. I was thinking something like squirrels and mice as the main good guys, and weasels, raccoons, foxes, and so on as the villains. I want to add in some of everything else too, skunks, possums, moles, badgers, and so on...
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What scale? Would be nice if they were compatible with the oop Iron Claw range, but those were more around 25mm.
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Black Orc Games have ape people.
http://cart.blackorc.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=71&zenid=f8c196e005217677e06b85095633dcec
Cat people.
http://cart.blackorc.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=70
Insect people.
http://cart.blackorc.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=68
Centaurs.
http://cart.blackorc.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=72
Dinosaur people.
http://cart.blackorc.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=69
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Oddly enough, I was talking to a sculptor just last week about such a project. I have been wanting to build a game for my daughter, she is 3 this weekend, so a few more years till she can play, but I am a slow painter and terrain builder, so that should be just enough time! Anyway, I was looking to do something like a medieval theme, woodland critters, clothes, weapons, and all. I am looking at a skirmish level effort; maybe 50 figures in the line, maybe as much as 100, will have to see if anyone buys them first. I open to any ideas anyone might have. I was thinking something like squirrels and mice as the main good guys, and weasels, raccoons, foxes, and so on as the villains. I want to add in some of everything else too, skunks, possums, moles, badgers, and so on...
Sounds like Song of Splintered Lands might be up your alley, a Ganesha game accompanied by a range from Splintered Light. LAF fellow grubman did a review here (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=12038.0).
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Reaper, the legion of Justice & Caeke
http://www.reapermini.com/LegionofJusticeandCaeke
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What scale? Would be nice if they were compatible with the oop Iron Claw range, but those were more around 25mm.
Ah!
There!
I've heard the name Iron Claw whispered in the back alleys of Google searches for a little while now.
What exactly was Iron Claw?
More specifically, is there a showcase of it's OOP figures?
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It was an RPG setting for which a small range of very nice true 25mm antropomorphic minis were sculpted. I have a couple, though not all of them. :'(
I have these foxes: (http://wk.frothersunite.com/misc/pics/ironclawfoxes.jpg)
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While not mammals, I think you need to give consideration to Eureka's warrior frogs and terrapins:
(http://eurekamin.com.au/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1979&g2_serialNumber=3)
(http://eurekamin.com.au/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=2387&g2_serialNumber=3)
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For more traditional/classic human/animal combinations, Eureka also has centaurs and satyrs (I hope you don't consider them to be 'beast-men', but I guess that comes down to how you define the term!)
(http://eurekamin.com.au/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1174&g2_serialNumber=3)
(http://eurekamin.com.au/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1007&g2_serialNumber=3)
Eureka also has winged, fezzed monkeys (and who DOESN'T need those!) as well as boiler-suit apes.
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They're sculpted for Fantasy Football, but I have a real soft spot for these Siringit from Impact! Miniatures:
(http://www.impactminiatures.com/minis/big/SiringitElfballTeam.jpg)
They can be found here: http://www.impactminiatures.com/index.php?option=siringit (http://www.impactminiatures.com/index.php?option=siringit)
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Alternative Armies have some Toadmen 'The Todoroni of Nepolise'
(http://www.alternative-armies.com/images/56540_1ws.jpg)
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I have a couple myself, the Fox fighter-mage, and one other.
It was an RPG setting for which a small range of very nice true 25mm antropomorphic minis were sculpted. I have a couple, though not all of them. :'(
I have these foxes: (http://wk.frothersunite.com/misc/pics/ironclawfoxes.jpg)
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Eureka also have the Anubis warriors, some cat warriors and as far as I know one lone hawk warrior.
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I like where this thread is heading, though it could use more saurian/reptilian additions because I can never keep track of them.
(http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4962/rkwolfs2.jpg)
Well, hello. :)
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I have a couple myself, the Fox fighter-mage, and one other.
I might be interested in buying that other of you if it's one I don't have. ;)
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Oh and if you're idea of 28mm toadmen would be 15mm tall toadmen, there are also the toadec spawn in Alternative Armies 15mm range (I have been tempted to use them as swarms in a lizardmen army for some time now)
(http://www.15mm.co.uk/images/hot62.jpg)
http://www.15mm.co.uk/HOT62_TOADEC_SPAWN.htm (http://www.15mm.co.uk/HOT62_TOADEC_SPAWN.htm)
Don't be put off by the paintjob, they are nice little models. I really want to sculpt some 28mm ones up for AA for the Darkestorme range, but they are focused on the old stuff getting out first. :)
Oh they also have some nice 28mm fantasy dogmen (not the Flintloque ones, but there are those too) here:
http://www.alternative-armies.com/The_Dogmen_Packs.htm (http://www.alternative-armies.com/The_Dogmen_Packs.htm)
Yeah, they are glorified gnolls, but still, dogmen.
While I am in full AA froth, here are some Scotch Ratmen (Joccians)
http://www.alternative-armies.com/images/56502_1.jpg (http://www.alternative-armies.com/images/56502_1.jpg)
And a closeup painted by Tony Harwood (Dampfpanzerwagon)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JYStJjpvM-8/S_RP7f4F_bI/AAAAAAAAAKo/RgOMKmxXKZI/s400/Billy+%27the%27+Piper+02.JPG)
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I'll try to dig them out. They might be in storage unfortunately.
I might be interested in buying that other of you if it's one I don't have. ;)
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Well, the other two I have are what I think is a raccoon, waving a staff and then a near-naked wolfman (which was a bit of a dissappointment as it could have come from any mainstream fantasy range), so if the one you have is different, I'm very interested.
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@ P_Clapham
And if the minis are the same as White Knight allready has, and you still want to sell/trade them, I would be happy to get them :)
Cheers
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I've always assumed any lycanthropes or kittyanthropes to be more solitary figures, inflicted with some curse or disease. That is until I recently read a series of chick-lit books about a female werewolf and the pack mentality behind it. So actually having a group of them together makes a lot more sense to me now. However, I'm not a big fan of the idea that lycans of any sort would start wearing clothes and/or jewellry as this is way to un-animal for my taste. Still, some of those models here look really cool. And Rakham's Wolfen are about the only Rakham models I like (maybe with the exception of a few of their goblins...).
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I found them! Thought they would be with my Clan War miniatures in storage, luckily they were with my LotR figures which I am currently working on.
The figures are Annushka the Fox in robes with sword and book. The other is Maura, she looks like a bat rogue. Both figures are still in their blisters.
@white knight, let me know if you are interested in Maura.
@Comsquare, more than happy to trade you Annushka. If white knight already has Maura I'm happy to trade her too.
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I am interested in Maura! ;D
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And I'm in for Annushka :D
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I could go for both. :-*
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bkg had their verminion range.
here's an expertly painted example by Rafal Maj:
http://www.black-knight-games-online.com/metalgems/RMaj9-18-2010.aspx
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We've already got a rhino warrior available, with a complete range of anthropomorphic animals in the works for our Wyrdworld background...
(http://www.fenrisgames.com/images/440_rog5.jpg)
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I have no idea how extensive the range is going to be, but Eureka have just started the first release of their 'rabbit' army
Ashigaru Rabbits
(http://www.chronofus.net/wargames/eureka/100club/fantasy/rabbita.jpg)
(http://www.chronofus.net/wargames/eureka/100club/fantasy/rabbitb.jpg)
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Not my cup of tea, really, but I came across Otherworlds fantasy range the other day and found this boarman rather cool:
(http://www.otherworld.me.uk/images/wereboarpaint1.jpg)
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I know the thread says 28/25mm but if 15/20mm is your thing .... http://www.splinteredlightminis.com/druidschildren.html
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Oh yeah, there's rabbitmen in the flintloque range too.
There's even a napoleonique version of Bucky O'Hare coming out at some point I have heard.
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http://www.black-knight-games-online.com/shop/Products/11-calendor-verminion.aspx
BKG has also just re-released their classic verminion.
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I am living in the golden age of miniatures...
Gracias,
Glenn
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I apologize for the needless bump, but are there any more out there? :D
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I apologize for the needless bump, but are there any more out there? :D
It's never a needless bump in a case like this! ;)
Especially since I require several 28mm minis of cat/fox/wolfguys & cat/fox/wolfgirls for my upcoming, evil plan... ;D
Speaking of which, those Iron Claw foxes? *expletives censored*, those are soooo awesome! Why is the good stuff always OOP? :-[
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Why, dear girl, because the clientele is so small, of course!
Though it's a rather tacky (and in some cases ugly) solution to the lack of furries within the mini-fig business, WOTC's plastic D&D minis have a few anthro figures.
Cheap ones, too.
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Archive.aspx?category=newsresources&subcategory=minigalleries
Hound Archons, Gnolls, Rakshasa, editable were animals, all sorts of goodies!
Hell, there are even some undead of the sort!
Ironwinds has undead anthros as well.
(http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/234/df1951.jpg) (http://img543.imageshack.us/i/df1951.jpg/)
(http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/830/df1961.jpg) (http://img444.imageshack.us/i/df1961.jpg/)
(http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/8718/df1981.jpg) (http://img138.imageshack.us/i/df1981.jpg/)
VERY useful to some folk, I'm willing to bet.
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Hi,
We do quite a few that might fit in here.
We have a lizardman race:
(http://blackcatbases.com/bmz_cache/5/5aadae5e90f7fdd37dcda4465b51be38.image.750x549.jpg)
Deep ones (or frog men!):
(http://blackcatbases.com/bmz_cache/1/1aede4fb4917070a2e7dd2a09e636f57.image.567x550.jpg)
Cat people:
(http://blackcatbases.com/bmz_cache/8/8e2ff9d57f0bd33c728878e479c72e68.image.423x550.jpg)
(http://blackcatbases.com/bmz_cache/c/c16c60669ee5b14d2acfa681d77b1149.image.336x550.jpg)
Werewolves:
(http://blackcatbases.com/bmz_cache/c/cca7bb7fc06a221cea9a440d396f77a2.image.420x550.JPG)
and Smoggers in the Moonfleet miniatures range:
(http://blackcatbases.com/bmz_cache/8/8d2c29d4f76f6f13aa58c326d2ab678a.image.405x550.JPG)
some of the smoggers have guns and are more sci fi but some do not.
Jo:)
http://blackcatbases.com/
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Kraken Editions makes some useful minis for their Alkemy range.
The Khaliman:
(http://i52.tinypic.com/j0joub.jpg)
The Aurlok:
(http://i52.tinypic.com/qz51k0.jpg)
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Kraken Editions makes some useful minis for their Alkemy range.
<snip>
The Aurlok:
(http://i52.tinypic.com/qz51k0.jpg)
Wow, semi-civilized Venusians!
Gracias,
Glenn
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Heres one for you, Circle of Oboros Minis from Warmachine, been using them to create an army with my Wolfen from Rackham
http://privateerpress.com/hordes/gallery/circle-orboros/units/warpborn-skinwalkers
The warpborn Skinwalkers in particular are very cool.
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Here's a bump! Hope it brings in some more results and gets the thread back up and running! :D
Here's a list of all(?) the Ironclaw anthro figures(?)
(Some of them look like they are from other ranges with hastily applied edits, and I find myself doubting that this is ALL of them since they are so hard to find and no image gallery exists to document them.)
http://greywolf.critter.net/images/ironclaw/minis/
EDIT> most if not all of these are edits apparently.
These three figures are old Gutherie Grenadier modells, now available from Mega Miniatures and a few other places the last time I checked.
(http://i43.tinypic.com/am9y89.jpg)
I especially like this Knoll Champion - he's very stately and, dare I say, handsome.
I like his proud, knightly, civilized look - you don't see this quality in anthropomorphic minis very often, let alone in gnolls.
(http://i43.tinypic.com/s31opw.jpg)
Not sure how this wererat matches up as far as scale, but he isn't completely rabid and feral looking, or fat stout and sickeningly cute, which makes him A-okay with me.
(http://i39.tinypic.com/atw0i.jpg)
This Cat Folk Warrior is trying to duplicate the knightly style of the gnoll, but it doesn't seem like he pulls it off quite as nicely.
(http://i40.tinypic.com/29bbrtf.jpg)
Also, there's the Virtuous Maiden - a figure which I know very little about.
The paint job doesn't look fantastic, but the sculpt is nice, and she's plastic therefore cheap!
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The vituous maiden is a Dreamscape mini from that abortive CMG.
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oh jeeze, how did I forget to mention she was a Dreamblade figure!? o_o
Thanks for pointing that out.
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Aw come on, guys, this is hard work to do all by myself. :'(
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I sell these two, which are fairly small and could work with the ironclaw range:
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bt7manul4h0/TcUv2fio1XI/AAAAAAAAAJA/zgIi-eBn3qw/s1600/pig1.jpg)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0l3lwS1rT5Q/TiLDC6Lh1GI/AAAAAAAAAQg/Y2TDtXyJLHc/s1600/WKHS-02.jpg)
Though, granted, the little pig has wings. lol
http://whiteknightminiatureimperium.blogspot.com/search/label/Hors%20Serie (http://whiteknightminiatureimperium.blogspot.com/search/label/Hors%20Serie)
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Black Hat miniatures has some pandas /firefoxes adventurers in their Tales of the Dragon Kings. (http://www.blackhat.co.uk/ (http://www.blackhat.co.uk/))
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Somewhere earlier in the thread, someone (passingly) mentioned Splintered Light as a source for anthro minis, and to make a log story short the sculpts are all absolutely piss poor.
*sigh*
Anyways, here are some 'presentable' furry skeletons - one of the only good things they make IMHO.
(http://i42.tinypic.com/1z1tfrc.jpg)
(http://i44.tinypic.com/20ti8ba.jpg)
I need a drink. >:(
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Somewhere earlier in the thread, someone (passingly) mentioned Splintered Light as a source for anthro minis, and to make a log story short the sculpts are all absolutely piss poor.
You did realise it's a 15mm range, right? ;)
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*slams head against desk*
Now I need two drinks.
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And most of them are really nice in the hand, the pictures on the site really don't do them justice tbh!
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Don't know if anyone is interested but I'm in the process of doing anthro (or indeed, furry... stuff :?) I intend to do more past this lot. Different species and different looking factions.
Nothing like that on the lamb poop. ::)
Thanks for looking.
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg42/Bergil/ModelWIPS/wipwolvessmallercopy.jpg)
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I'M certainly interested! :D
Any chance of those being sold somewhere?
And I suggest sculpting different animal heads for each body and putting them in a sprue, unless you've already got your heads made.
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And make the head sprues available seperately - I've pretty much given up at the moment on finding decent dog-heads that I can stick on people to make cynocephali (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynocephaly) for my medieval game :'(
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I'M certainly interested! :D
Any chance of those being sold somewhere?
And I suggest sculpting different animal heads for each body and putting them in a sprue, unless you've already got your heads made.
These will be on sale when I have got round to doing that sort of thing... and finishing them... ::)
Will be doing seperate types of animal heads as I go along, no worries there. Although they will often have ornamentation to fit in with their theme.
And make the head sprues available seperately - I've pretty much given up at the moment on finding decent dog-heads that I can stick on people to make cynocephali for my medieval game
We will see what I can do ;)
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Somewhere earlier in the thread, someone (passingly) mentioned Splintered Light as a source for anthro minis, and to make a log story short the sculpts are all absolutely piss poor.
*sigh*
<snip>
I need a drink. >:(
Horses for courses, I like the mice for my Medieval Mice fantasy armies.
And the sculpts are actually good if you drop the Museum Masterpiece Mindset for 3D counters (which is all war game figures really are in the end, you know. Those who use larger figures sometimes get enthralled in the beauty of the the figures as an end into itself, which it is for certain segments (like the awesome painters on this forum,) of the hobby as opposed to toy soldiers. My dos centavos.
Gracias,
Glenn
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Nice work Bergil
Well said Conquistador
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Anybody mentioned MSB Toys already?
Have some of the Monkey King line, nice minis
http://www.msbtoys.com/MSBShop/category.php?id_category=5
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Just posting what I've found recently - and I must say, it took a lot of looking to find a few of these.
(http://i39.tinypic.com/vf8nwl.jpg)
The right Black Tree Design werewolf looks small and non-beastial enough to function as an anthro with some editing.
http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=Fantasy_Collectors_Series_Revised
Grenadier did a series of minis titled 'fangs of fury', which is mostly gnolls with a less savage look than most gnoll models. You'll have to scroll down to see them here, or click their name in the directory.
(http://i44.tinypic.com/16bj7td.jpg)
The sculpts look nice painted IMO, but I'm only able to judge from this single picture.
(http://i43.tinypic.com/1xjyp.jpg)
This is a Das Schwarze Auge wolfman javelineer currently available from Ral Partha Europe.
The line also has some other animal people, but the pictures are all about this quality or worse, and I found it impossible to tell whether or not they were just humans with cat ears.
Iron Wind produces this dog soldier of sorts
(http://i44.tinypic.com/126429s.jpg)
(http://i40.tinypic.com/2mrijyu.jpg)
good for that gent who's looking for medieval "dog heads"? ;)
From Iron Wind you'll also find the "Arcana Evolved" line of minis, most of which are quite interesting - though the anthro animals have the misfortune of having inconsistent and shoddy posing and anatomy in some cases.
http://ironwindmetals.com/store/index.php?cPath=264_294&osCsid=b50a172214cb98f0b0cca05cc344c1fa
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<snip good stuff>
From Iron Wind you'll also find the "Arcana Evolved" line of minis, most of which are quite interesting - though the anthro animals have the misfortune of having inconsistent and shoddy posing and anatomy in some cases.
http://ironwindmetals.com/store/index.php?cPath=264_294&osCsid=b50a172214cb98f0b0cca05cc344c1fa
Doesn't that inconsistency in a miniatures line just drive you crazy? It does me! Well, more like a short stroll truth be known but I digress.
Gracias,
Glenn
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Doesn't that inconsistency in a miniatures line just drive you crazy? It does me! Well, more like a short stroll truth be known but I digress.
Gracias,
Glenn
Winds me up no end as well!
So I'm working towards getting some (alot) of consistency going myself when it comes to anthro races. Just takes an awful lot of time!
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I dont think anyone has mention The minion fraction for Hordes by privateer press: http://privateerpress.com/hordes/gallery/minions (mostly pigs and crocodiles)
(http://privateerpress.com/files/products/minions/units/farrow-brigands-unit.png)
(http://privateerpress.com/files/products/75041_GatormanPosse5WEB.jpg)
And I know that Brigade games has some gorillas in uniform: http://www.brigadegames.com/Sir-something-has-gone-orribly-wrong5-gorillas_p_946.html
(http://www.brigadegames.com/assets/images/BrigadeGames/BG-GOR01_lg.jpg)
these miniatures are more modern equiped.
Gaspez-art does some beutiful beastmen of farm animals: http://www.gaspez-arts.com/?go=details&id=239
(http://www.gaspez-arts.com/images/prod_img/239_A.jpg)