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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Faust23 on May 08, 2011, 11:11:26 PM

Title: Old School Shopping spree
Post by: Faust23 on May 08, 2011, 11:11:26 PM: Here are some pics of my latest old school lead acquisitions. I've gotta scoot to Mother's Day dinner, so here's the link to the pics on my blog

http://4sparta.blogspot.com/
Title: Re: Old School Shopping spree
Post by: DeafNala on May 09, 2011, 11:58:33 AM: OOOH COOL STUFF! Congratulations on your acquisition...have FUN with all the painting.
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Post by: Doomhippie on May 09, 2011, 05:57:24 PM: Nice models. Congrats....
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Post by: Faust23 on May 09, 2011, 06:01:29 PM: Thanks. I'm pretty happy with them too. I got the Marauder Empire Fighters for 50 cents a piece! The others came a little higher, but I'm still happy with it.

My favorite are the Marauder Reiksguard Knights. I now have seven of them. I am converting one to have a two-handed flail, and I just received the halberdier in the mail saturday.

I have one more buying patch to do, and then its mass painting time.
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Post by: Blue in vt on May 09, 2011, 06:19:14 PM: Very nice...Those Marauder Reiksguard have been on my wish list for a long time now....someday they will be mine!

I hope you share pics when they are painted up!

Congrats

Blue
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Post by: Bloodysword on May 09, 2011, 10:03:33 PM: I love the wardancer with the head. Great figure.
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Post by: Braxandur on May 09, 2011, 10:29:42 PM: Nice finds! Now start painting them! ;D
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Post by: Faust23 on May 10, 2011, 12:56:52 AM: I'd love to start painting Brax, but currently my right shoulder blade is frozen in spasm. Not able to hold a mini, let alone paint one up.

Gonna have to rehab the arm/shoulder first.

:'(
Title: Re: Old School Shopping spree
Post by: Braxandur on May 10, 2011, 07:02:03 AM: Quote from: Faust23 on May 10, 2011, 12:56:52 AM
I'd love to start painting Brax, but currently my right shoulder blade is frozen in spasm. Not able to hold a mini, let alone paint one up.

Gonna have to rehab the arm/shoulder first.

:'(

I feel sad for you... Now go onto a shopping spree for more old school goodies to make you feel better ;)

And off my personal best for you!
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Post by: Faust23 on May 10, 2011, 04:39:18 PM: Thanks Brax. I took your advice and bought another Marauder Reiksguard foot knight. Its one I don't have and the last of the 5 model set run. It is the flail and shield knight.

I also grabbed some more old school Jes Goodwin wardancers and a couple archers by him as well.

Now I have most of the Jes Goodwin Wardancers from the eighties, 4 wood elf archers by him, all five version of Marauder foot knights, 3 chaos centaurs, and a gob of Empire fighters.

I really want the Eternal Champion ranges in full as well. But that's for another day and another paycheck.
Title: Re: Old School Shopping spree
Post by: Blue in vt on May 10, 2011, 06:05:04 PM: Dude...if you have access to anymore of the Marauder Reiksguard foot please let me know as I have been looking for them for ages.

Cheers,

Blue
Title: Re: Old School Shopping spree
Post by: Faust23 on May 10, 2011, 06:24:08 PM: @Blue - I picked up most of mine years ago from the Archive service at GWUK.

I have found three on ebay, but no more than that.

They are probably my favorite Empire minis of all time. And having played with GW minis since '87 that's a lot of great minis to beat!

I found some of the regular Empire Fighters/Dogs of War early range stuff and scored two crossbowmen with sallet helms that were called "Reik Guard" on the White Dwarf ad. So those are my two ranged support minis.

As of my last count with the last flail wielding knight added, I have 9 total. I'm sad to report I sold one greatsword with my greatsword empire unit some years back. I should have kept him.

I'm using them for my Fantasy supplement playtest with my friend Drew. I'm calling them the Judicial Champions. They are a knightly order that uses hammer iconography and carry Wargavels (a fancy name for warhammers with a judicial theme) to battle among its higher ranking members.

I love being a geek...
Title: Re: Old School Shopping spree
Post by: Damien on May 11, 2011, 04:04:42 AM: I really, I mean really want some chaos centaurs, they always go for more than I want to pay (someday). These are all great acquisitions.

Damien

p.s. good luck on the rehab
Title: Re: Old School Shopping spree
Post by: Faust23 on May 11, 2011, 06:07:04 AM: @Damien - yeah, I really lucked out on the auction for those three centaurs. I'd seen others go for 3 times the price!