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Title: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: beefcake on 18 December 2013, 06:11:03 AM
Does anyone know where I can get some good snakemen type miniatures from. I'm after ones with a snake bottom half and snake head. (Snake to half and legs would just look stupid).
Any ideas. I know the reaper bones has a few but I'm after a variety.
Thanks.

Edit: also found reapers nagendra which look pretty good, if pricey
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: von Lucky on 18 December 2013, 07:05:27 AM
Try a forum search, but recently:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=61139.0
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=61147.0
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: Mo! on 18 December 2013, 08:40:22 AM
I have a bunch of rackham confontation Ophidians for sale  ;D
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: beefcake on 18 December 2013, 08:47:49 AM
Thanks. Usually quite costly though,maim thinking cheap lol
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: beefcake on 18 December 2013, 08:55:31 AM
Try a forum search, but recently:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=61139.0
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=61147.0

I forgot about mierce, so are they now a reputable company with the name change? Maybe I'll look into a retailer for them.  Thanks, now to have a good look through that other link.
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: Vermis on 18 December 2013, 01:51:16 PM
I forgot about mierce, so are they now a reputable company with the name change?

Not really.
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: Timbor on 18 December 2013, 08:16:05 PM
I haven't heard anything bad about Mierce recently, since the whole Maelstrom fiasco, and I haven't heard of anyone really disappointed by their KS campaigns either (though admittedly I have not been looking either).  That being said, I ordered from Maelstrom for several years without problems before it imploded...

They are very nice figures, its just that you are supporting the owner by buying them.  Personal choice.  ;)
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: Franz_Josef on 19 December 2013, 01:31:29 PM
There are several in the Legend of the 5 Rings range of miniatures, in the Naga Clan.  Samurai themed, but some don't have any distinctive armor.

http://www.veltd.net/zencart/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=36_42&sort=20a&page=1
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: carlos13th on 19 December 2013, 03:17:36 PM
The Qol from Tekumel?

http://thetekumelclub.blogspot.ca/
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: axiom on 19 December 2013, 03:59:19 PM
Strange Aeons has a set of figures which would make a nice sorcerer plus acolytes:

http://www.strange-aeons.ca/umw-shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=43 (http://www.strange-aeons.ca/umw-shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=43)
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: Spooktalker on 20 December 2013, 06:11:22 AM
Believe you can get the Grenadier Cthulhu ones from Mirliton these days. Reaper has some large ones that are a bit sloppy and loose in the sculpting, but some charm. I really like their especially large leader, Po Wi Set, who is a yet-to-be-introduced deity of some kind in my D&D campaign setting.
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: beefcake on 20 December 2013, 07:11:32 AM
Thanks I'll have a look at those ones. :)
Strange Aeons has a set of figures which would make a nice sorcerer plus acolytes:

http://www.strange-aeons.ca/umw-shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=43 (http://www.strange-aeons.ca/umw-shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=43)
Those are quite nice. I've seen them before and been impressed.

Not a big fan of the tekumel ones, the arms remind me of tentacles instead of snakiness (?) but thanks :)
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: LordOdo on 23 December 2013, 11:09:53 PM
What about these?

(http://www.mirliton.it/images/catalog/NM037.jpg)

http://www.mirliton.it/product_info.php?pName=serpent-men&cName=nightmares-28mm (http://www.mirliton.it/product_info.php?pName=serpent-men&cName=nightmares-28mm)

Not even really expensive
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: sundayhero on 23 December 2013, 11:28:47 PM
Take a look on Chronopia Stygians. Some of them are snake tail type, other ones are quadripede lizards. One of my favourite lezard men range.
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye on 23 December 2013, 11:33:32 PM

Not a big fan of the tekumel ones, the arms remind me of tentacles instead of snakiness (?)

That's cause they are tentacles!  8)

(Not the octopus or squid sort, of course.)
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: beefcake on 23 December 2013, 11:44:29 PM
 lol well they do the job well then, just not to my taste  :)
I have a chronopia snakeman actually that I just found a couple of days ago. Thanks. I think I may go for some reaper ones.
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: nervisfr on 02 January 2014, 01:49:26 PM
Does anyone know where I can get some good snakemen type miniatures from. I'm after ones with a snake bottom half and snake head. (Snake to half and legs would just look stupid).
Any ideas. I know the reaper bones has a few but I'm after a variety.
Thanks.

Edit: also found reapers nagendra which look pretty good, if pricey


For myself, i mix a bone figure like that one :

(http://www.reapermini.com/graphics/gallery/4/77117_w_1.jpg)


with a celtic torso from plastic Warlord Games   :

(http://imageshack.us/a/img23/6451/y2je.jpg)

the head is a Mantic plastic ghoul !


Now it's up to you to find the good torso and heads for your conversion work !    ;)
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: maxxev on 02 January 2014, 03:39:14 PM
I don't think snakemen with legs look stupid.

Actually this is my favorite of all the snakemen i've ever seen.

Shame you can't buy them and there was only one pose in the game.

(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Dark-World-Game-Fantasy-Figures-Monsters-Village-of-Fear-Dragons-Gate-HeroQuest-/00/s/NDgwWDY0MA==/$T2eC16F,!ysE9sy0gGdjBQ-oL8THVg~~60_12.JPG)
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: beefcake on 02 January 2014, 06:51:34 PM
That's quite cool maxxev! I probably do what nervousfr has said and mix it with some reaper bones. Who made that snakeman?
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: weismonsters on 02 January 2014, 10:53:35 PM
I recently bought the sphere wars snakeman, which is quite nice. He is unarmed but you could pop a weapon in his hand easily enough. Generally was nice sculpt and casting except I found that the shoulder joint needed a bit of work to get a good fit tho.
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: Grimmnar on 03 January 2014, 04:00:06 AM
I don't think snakemen with legs look stupid.

Actually this is my favorite of all the snakemen i've ever seen.

Shame you can't buy them and there was only one pose in the game.

(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Dark-World-Game-Fantasy-Figures-Monsters-Village-of-Fear-Dragons-Gate-HeroQuest-/00/s/NDgwWDY0MA==/$T2eC16F,!ysE9sy0gGdjBQ-oL8THVg~~60_12.JPG)
I can see how peeps say Snakemen with legs dont look right. I can see it as i think i may be one of them. I think i like my snakemen legless.

Grimm
Title: Re: Serpent/snakemen?
Post by: maxxev on 03 January 2014, 12:34:58 PM
The figure was from the dark world village of fear boardgame and is OOP and quite rare, they turn up on ebay, but they are usually oretty expensive and they are not the best casts with a lot of blank undercuts, tough plastic and fudgy detail, still the snakeman design I like the best though.