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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: waugh games on 25 October 2014, 06:17:41 PM
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THE FIRST OF OUR NEW LATE IMPERIAL ROMAN RANGE IS AVAILABLE
WE HAVE A CENTURION AT £1.50
4 VARIATIONS OF SPEARMEN AT
5 FOR £6 OR 10 FOR £12
EMAIL US ABOUT ARMY DEALS AT
waughgamesuk@Hotmail.co.uk
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Pictures?
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THE SPEARMEN
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The Centurion ,these are only the first of many planned release for this range
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Look good; are they smaller 28mm (i.e. Foundry size) or larger (Gripping Beast), please?
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28mm to the eyes so will fit in more with gripping beast type ranges and the details are quite crisp making them much easier to paint (great for us mature painters)
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They look cracking! :-*
Excellent news that they will scale up with GB as my collection is made up of GB and Musketeer. Will be snatching these up!
Any chance of Goths and Huns in the future??
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yes we intend to release over the coming months a lots of figures around the late roman early dark age period
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Great news :) best get saving then!
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Very interesting. Who did the sculpting?
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One small reservation is the cast on spears. I suspect that a lot of gamers prefer to use Northstar or similar spears, that don't bend. Might be worth polling to see how potential buyers feel about this.
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It appears the shields are cast on also.
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Those look great!
The price is competitive too.
I think separate shields and spears would push the cost up.
Plus all that fiddly gluing. :-)
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I'm not bothered by the fact that the shields are cast on, but I would have been much happier to see that the spears weren't. Its not the issue of them bending that worries me, rather it is the fact that I use the Northstar spears which I believe will look a lot slimmer next to these, I would rather all my spears to be the same thickness for the sake of uniformity.
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Yes; if one was mixing these in with Gripping Beast, there would be an issue with the spears not matching, 'cos the GB minis don't have them and usually are mixed with North Star. I've had difficulties using the Crusader Late Romans for this reason; their cast on spears make it harder to mix them in with their Foundry equivalents.
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Strange that nobody does thicker wire spears, thinking of it. Both Gripping Beast and Aventine sell pewter spears though.
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Oddly enough I prefer the cast Gripping Beast spears, simply because IMHO they look better. I even go as far as to drill out the Musketeer (and other brands) hands to fit in the thicker GB spear. These would be replaced as well.
(possible tip*) I don't glue these on permanently with superglue, so if a spear bends beyond rescue, I'm almost always able to just easily replace it with a new one. And yes, that means thinning the GB hands somewhat in most cases and folding them into a 'gripping' shape.
The cast on shields however, are what will probably keep me from buying them. Another oval(ish) shape that won't fit in with any of the existing ranges.
Separate shields are a godsend if you want to apply shield decals and even when not.
I can get a more 'uniform' look (if desired) by just adding shields 'A' to figure range 'B','C' or whatever. Or do the opposite and go for a more 'barbarian' look.
They look like really nice figures, but as said, I'm probably going to give them a miss.
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I quite like them and may avail myself of a few come payday.
Two things strike me.
Are these for the mid to late 3rdC onwards? There seems to be a mix of helmets - difficult to tell from the pic and I may be my eyes, but some look ridge helmet type while others look more italic. I like this though, I want less uniformity in my legions please, especially in this period.
The shields being separate make no odds to me, but I wonder if they are large enough to take any of the transfers around. (Something to bear in mind if planning more, these transfers are popular!). The shield looks a little small (again just maybe the pic), compared with those found at Dura.
Good figures and a welcome addition - look forward to seeing more and a webpage too please ?
Thanks!
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Emir - you are bang on with your time period sir - Jim loved the period, with its potential for a nice mix of kit, and it's a shame these weren't given a proper release, but I always loved the 40mm figs more - so they had priority when it came to moulding. They were all Jim's children and should have been treated equally!
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Now I know the sculptor and got the timeframe right I'm looking forward to the rest of the range with even more relish.
Thanks for sharing that Steve.
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Interesting period; that puts them between the A&A Mid Romans and the various Late Imperial ranges. How many different sculpts are there?
Re the shields, maybe send Steve at LBMS a couple of samples? He will have suitable designs that could be re-sized.
It's funny, I don't much like a cast-on spear, but I don't mind a cast on shield. Different strokes! ;-)
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I really like them and looking forward to seeing some painted :)
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Simon - there are about 30 figures in the range
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Thanks Steve- look forward to seeing the rest!
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28mm Jim Bowen should work well enough with Copplestone in style. Hope there are good choice of early saxons in the mix.
Very Warlord Chronicles in feel.
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@Steve; These 30 miniatures were a range parallel to the 36mm England Invaded range or early dark ages only? What can we expect to see released?
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Shield wise there is always VVV - http://www.3vwargames.co.uk/
And these are on my must have list. Been looking for elite looking late Romans for my dark ages based fantasy/myth human army.
The cloaks on these will help them stand out as such as well.
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Easy enough to replace the spears. Cut them off above and below the hand, then use a pin-vise or a mini-drill to put a hole down through it, and slide in a steel spear from North Star or the like.
Don't mind cast on shields, and if I'm painting the shield design then I don't mind if the shields are a slightly different size. I think a bit of irregularity suits very late Romans, so like mixing figures. However, I like the LBM shields in particular, so if they were of a size to take the same decals as one or more of the other manufactureres, that would be good.