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Title: de-unpc-ing GW pygmies
Post by: anevilgiraffe on 22 March 2015, 08:44:07 PM: I have a handful of the old GW pygmies that I picked up a few years back, but haven't done anything with them for <ahem> obvious reasons (no matter how fondly I remember them back in the day). To get some use out of them they will need to be beheaded really, so I'm after some tribal masks or - to fit the Slann theme - aztec/inca headdresses, essentially anything that will hide or replace any offending aspects....

can anyone suggest any suitable tribal bitz? primarily masks?
Title: Re: de-unpc-ing GW pygmies
Post by: LeadAsbestos on 22 March 2015, 09:36:24 PM: Don't do it! Sell them to me, I'll keep them intact, buy your self some foundry pygmies!
Title: Re: de-unpc-ing GW pygmies
Post by: wolfgangbrooks on 22 March 2015, 09:38:24 PM: Reaper's Bloodstone Gnomes have a couple of sprues with big tribal style masks.

They also have this skull mask from their frogman shaman. http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/mask/sku-down/P03174C (http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/mask/sku-down/P03174C)

There's also their own pygmies and apparently the masks can be bought seperate.http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/mask/sku-down/03497 (http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/mask/sku-down/03497)
Title: Re: de-unpc-ing GW pygmies
Post by: robh on 22 March 2015, 10:16:13 PM: :o
I would also urge you not to destroy the figures. Sell them, trade them or just store them as a fond reminder.

There are loads of other options now, the GW ones are collectors pieces.
Title: Re: de-unpc-ing GW pygmies
Post by: dampfpanzerwagon on 22 March 2015, 10:18:43 PM: I saw this and thought it might be worth checking through the posts?

http://www.frothersunite.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=45556

Tony
Title: Re: de-unpc-ing GW pygmies
Post by: Duncan McDane on 22 March 2015, 10:19:04 PM: Get yourself some relatively cheap Excalibur ones. The faces aren't too great but the bodies are allright. And if you want, you can trade them with me for your Citadel Pygmies ;).
Title: Re: de-unpc-ing GW pygmies
Post by: anevilgiraffe on 22 March 2015, 10:26:24 PM: Quote from: dampfpanzerwagon on 22 March 2015, 10:18:43 PM
I saw this and thought it might be worth checking through the posts?

http://www.frothersunite.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=45556

Tony

I was part of that conversation :) and the ensuing aspect of how they are not really acceptable sculpting wise...
Title: Re: de-unpc-ing GW pygmies
Post by: Theatralic on 22 March 2015, 11:23:14 PM: Clan Bamaka from Eden also has some nice Facemasks although I don`t know how to get them on their own. Have you thought about doing your own?
Title: Re: de-unpc-ing GW pygmies
Post by: anevilgiraffe on 23 March 2015, 12:21:24 AM: well I honestly didn't think they'd sell with prevailing attitudes towards them - but I guess folks still collect.... will look at ebaying them then:

(http://www.solegends.com/citc/c27pigmiesc3.jpg)

2 Puff, 1 Agh, 1 Bongo, 1 Ugh, 2 Arg, 1 Og, I chieftain, 1 standard bearer and 1 shaman based on 20mm round slottas (I'd planned on using them for skirmish gaming)
Title: Re: de-unpc-ing GW pygmies
Post by: LeadAsbestos on 23 March 2015, 12:54:08 AM: First dibs?
Title: Re: de-unpc-ing GW pygmies
Post by: Theatralic on 23 March 2015, 12:58:50 AM: Dang :o, never saw those before, not sure what the Perrys where thinking :?. But then being African myself I am probably biased lol
Title: Re: de-unpc-ing GW pygmies
Post by: anevilgiraffe on 23 March 2015, 01:00:11 AM: Quote from: LeadAsbestos on 23 March 2015, 12:54:08 AM
First dibs?

'k, will pop to the post office tomorrow to get an idea of postage to US and give you a price?
Title: Re: de-unpc-ing GW pygmies
Post by: LeadAsbestos on 23 March 2015, 09:22:50 AM: Great! Had a small unit of them w/ a scratch-built outrigger canoe years ago! :)
Title: Re: de-unpc-ing GW pygmies
Post by: Braxandur on 23 March 2015, 10:19:03 AM: For me those pigmies are pure nostalgie, as I the first (metal) citadel miniatures that I bought was a blister with 4 of these guys.

You can off course also go for the kallistra models. A few of them you can see in my LPL entry froma few years back:
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/braxandur/LPL%203/Thelostvalley-orwasthatbeinglostint.jpg~original)

Kallistra even made a palm catapult ;D
Title: Re: de-unpc-ing GW pygmies
Post by: area23 on 23 March 2015, 10:25:48 PM: Back in the Realm of Chaos days I converted them as Nurgle cult warriors, but the extreme caricature of course didn't go away. I cut some up and dit headswaps with ungor, practically destroying them with no satisfying results. A big shame now looking back. lol
Title: Re: de-unpc-ing GW pygmies
Post by: Duff on 25 March 2015, 05:01:34 PM: I had several units of them for my Slann army back in the late 80s, early 90s (used well, they were surprisingly effective on the tabletop). Sold them on ebay about 10 years ago for a packet. Best to think of them more as a variety of hobbit than as a racial caricature but I don't think I'd be able to bring myself to paint and game with them now. I was going to say that they were the product of a more innocent time, but I think the reality is that they were the product of a more ignorant time.
Title: Re: de-unpc-ing GW pygmies
Post by: Brummie Thug on 25 March 2015, 05:54:13 PM: If your after little folk with masks what about EMP Games Lost Horizon range

http://www.wargamesemporium.com/new/oscommerce-2.2rc2a/catalog/index.php?cPath=719_722&osCsid=669781907fa44bb6a6cda63f242f76fe