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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: skink on September 12, 2014, 02:16:11 PM

Title: Degenerate Picts
Post by: skink on September 12, 2014, 02:16:11 PM: Hello,
after reading some of the Bran Mok Morn stories I am thinking about starting a Pict warband for SoBH or Saga. The picts in these stories aren't regular people but instead described as 'crooked' and 'stunted giants'. Also, they are fur-clad and primitively armed. Do you have any recommendatins for suitable miniatures?
Title: Re: Degenerate Picts
Post by: Skrapwelder on September 12, 2014, 02:34:23 PM: Although they are 15mm Copplestone makes just what you are describing.

(http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/images/fm12%20pict%20warriors.jpg)
Title: Re: Degenerate Picts
Post by: skink on September 12, 2014, 02:50:23 PM: They are exactly what I am looking for. But I need them in 28mm.
Title: Re: Degenerate Picts
Post by: Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye on September 12, 2014, 03:53:17 PM: There is a Neanderthal thread about somewhere that might have suitable figures in it...
Title: Re: Degenerate Picts
Post by: Skrapwelder on September 12, 2014, 04:52:28 PM: The North Star Neanderthals would certainly work.

(https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.608053604299178861&pid=1.7)

But they have been absent from North Stars website. No mention as to why that I can find.

Pulp figures makes Neanderthals:

http://pulpfigures.com/products/category/15 (http://pulpfigures.com/products/category/15)

and Copplestone's Cavemen might work, but they don't have that Bran Mac Mornish look

(http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/images/c26.jpg)
Title: Re: Degenerate Picts
Post by: Timbor on September 12, 2014, 05:03:54 PM: As for the lucid eye/Northstar neanderthals, Northstar for unknown reasons has discontinued the range, but it looks like it is being picked up by Arcane Scenery and Models (http://arcanesceneryandmodels.co.uk/). They are currently out of stock and thus not on their website while production is being relocated. I have been assured from Steve at Arcane that they will have them in stock in the future, hopefully within a few weeks. They also carry the bespoke copplestone cavemen under the label 'high adventure'.

Otherwise, you could find some more human-esque orcs and use those. Depends on how 'human' you want them to appear.
Title: Re: Degenerate Picts
Post by: skink on September 12, 2014, 05:28:55 PM: I'm looking for this loincloth-savages look the 15mm ones have. I thought about using the Hobbit goblins, but these look very degenerate.
Title: Re: Degenerate Picts
Post by: Steve F on September 12, 2014, 05:36:09 PM: How about the Games Workshop Lord of the Rings Wildmen of Druadan?

(http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w519/SteveFlanaganUK2/Odds%20and%20Ends/WildmenofDruadan_zps73e06591.jpg) (http://s1079.photobucket.com/user/SteveFlanaganUK2/media/Odds%20and%20Ends/WildmenofDruadan_zps73e06591.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Degenerate Picts
Post by: Skrapwelder on September 12, 2014, 05:58:35 PM: Otherworld Cavemen

(http://otherworldminiatures.co.uk/figures/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/cavemanwarband1paint1.jpg)
Title: Re: Degenerate Picts
Post by: area23 on September 12, 2014, 10:07:52 PM: Copplestone's half orcs he did for Grenadier would be right on but they have too much armour.
(http://leadadventureforum.com/images/lpl/s08/r08/area23_Fighting_Uruk_Hai_area23_R8.jpg)

otherwise savage orcs which are rare too.
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=46426.0

I got a pack of foundry azande in furs for conversion but I'm too lazy...
(http://campaign-game-miniatures.0catch.com/foundry-da10-3.jpg)
Title: Re: Degenerate Picts
Post by: Vermis on September 12, 2014, 10:48:31 PM: Quote from: area23 on September 12, 2014, 10:07:52 PM
Copplestone's half orcs he did for Grenadier would be right on but they have too much armour.
(http://leadadventureforum.com/images/lpl/s08/r08/area23_Fighting_Uruk_Hai_area23_R8.jpg)

Ooh.

And Mirliton still have 'em, half the price of these (http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Mordor-Uruk-hai). A bit off-topic, but ta for the heads-up. :)
Title: Re: Degenerate Picts
Post by: Lowtardog on September 12, 2014, 10:53:31 PM: How about Northstar formorions

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UikWQfUDEZ4/Ui4RpiRRC8I/AAAAAAAAQqg/9qQAqRFpnOA/s400/img5685.jpg)
Title: Re: Degenerate Picts
Post by: Garanhir on September 13, 2014, 07:33:08 AM: I adore those Copplestone half-orcs. Weapon choices are limited, but it's nothing a razor saw and the bits box can't fix.
Title: Re: Degenerate Picts
Post by: beefcake on September 13, 2014, 07:54:17 AM: Quote from: Vermis on September 12, 2014, 10:48:31 PM
Ooh.

And Mirliton still have 'em, half the price of these (http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Mordor-Uruk-hai). A bit off-topic, but ta for the heads-up. :)
And forlorn hope games have them as well Vermis if you are after them, you can buy them individually. I have a few.
Title: Re: Degenerate Picts
Post by: FramFramson on September 13, 2014, 08:02:31 AM: I'm actually sort of surprised that there isn't something exactly like those 15mm Copplestone figures in 28mm already.
Title: Re: Degenerate Picts
Post by: LeadAsbestos on September 13, 2014, 04:03:49 PM: I've got all those Otherworld cavemen MIB if anyone wants to make a deal!
Title: Re: Degenerate Picts
Post by: area23 on September 13, 2014, 05:30:48 PM: Quote from: FramFramson on September 13, 2014, 08:02:31 AM
I'm actually sort of surprised that there isn't something exactly like those 15mm Copplestone figures in 28mm already.
I was completely baffled when these came out "why!! why 15mm!!" I cried. Especially because Mark had promised war orcs for his (now discontinued-) 28mm fantasy range. :'(
Apart from the scale, the range is almost perfect...