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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Daeothar on September 11, 2014, 08:57:10 AM

Title: Identification request
Post by: Daeothar on September 11, 2014, 08:57:10 AM: Can anyone tell me what these are? Their bases say 'hhg 95'...
Title: Re: Identification request
Post by: Westfalia Chris on September 11, 2014, 09:56:43 AM: I'd say those are barbarians from the "Leviathan" game, back when Heartbreaker Hobbies and Games (i.e. HHG) made the figures for it (nowadays Scotia Grendel does the metal figures too, not just the resin beasties).
Title: Re: Identification request
Post by: Daeothar on September 11, 2014, 11:55:55 AM: Cheers Chris: that's them alright! 8)

Saw them on a Dutch auction/for sale site. Now to determine what to offer for them. Hmm... the banner top seems to be missing...
Title: Re: Identification request
Post by: Westfalia Chris on September 11, 2014, 12:27:46 PM: Quote from: Daeothar on September 11, 2014, 11:55:55 AM
Cheers Chris: that's them alright! 8)

Saw them on a Dutch auction/for sale site. Now to determine what to offer for them. Hmm... the banner top seems to be missing...

As said, the figures are back in production (AFAIK) with Scotia Grendel, so it's not exactly as if they had a high collectors value.

Link:

http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Products/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=221_222_46_49
Title: Re: Identification request
Post by: Daeothar on September 11, 2014, 12:36:02 PM: I know, but I kind of like the way they're sculpted. I saw they're basically 25mm, so on the small side. But I'm sure that they could be pressed into service as some sort of beardless dwarven kin, perhaps some youngsters... ;)
Title: Re: Identification request
Post by: Westfalia Chris on September 11, 2014, 12:50:25 PM: I'm sorry, what I meant to say was don't pay too much since you can still get new castings. Sometimes I'm amazed by people paying more than retail in auctions, occasionally because they're unaware the figures are not OOP.

That said, the figures weren't too bad back in the day. Not quite as good as the resin beasts (some of which I'll add to my goblin army at some point, but decent enough, if a bit chunky and stiffly-posed. Still, your suggestion of beardless dwarves (pitiful fellows!) sounds eminently reasonable.
Title: Re: Identification request
Post by: Daeothar on September 11, 2014, 12:57:38 PM: Cheers.

I was thinking somewhere around the €10,- mark myself.

Yeah; clan Wilkinsson ventured far into the deep south many generations ago and was presumed lost by their kin. Until a small adventuring party, led by Thane Hyr Sutnomor was encountered on the Kingsroad West of the Middle Mountains near a small town called Gillette... :D
Title: Re: Identification request
Post by: tin shed gamer on September 15, 2014, 11:50:16 PM: They look to be sculpted by Naismith.(The two in the bottom right corner are very similar to the figures he. sculpted for Citadel/GW in the early nineties)It might help you track them down.
He did some 40k and I think some lotr for them. Its either Ted or Bob Naismith one sculpts the others an illistrator,I'm not sure which is which as I've had the odd sleep since then.
Title: Re: Identification request
Post by: fastolfrus on September 16, 2014, 06:34:16 PM: Bob isn't it?

Also sculpted for Grenadier (25mm) and Roundway (15mm)?

Now sculpting for Mantic I think.