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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: THE CID on 30 March 2016, 09:48:21 PM

Title: Who makes the Best non Conan Hyborea range in metal.
Post by: THE CID on 30 March 2016, 09:48:21 PM

As the title says any ideas, 28mm preferred. I know there are plastic ones, but I hate plastic, sorry plastic lovers.

Title: Re: Who makes the Best non Conan Hyborea range in metal.
Post by: Golgotha on 30 March 2016, 10:34:47 PM

Grenadier Mirilton real classic barbarians?

Title: Re: Who makes the Best non Conan Hyborea range in metal.
Post by: THE CID on 31 March 2016, 07:48:14 AM

Oldies but goodies, any new ranges out there.

Title: Re: Who makes the Best non Conan Hyborea range in metal.
Post by: Reed on 31 March 2016, 05:00:34 PM

Looking only for Conan, cimmerians or all kind of people from the Hyborian ages?

Title: Re: Who makes the Best non Conan Hyborea range in metal.
Post by: Pijlie on 31 March 2016, 05:09:17 PM

I am very partial to thes: http://www.bronzeagemin.com/miniatures_html/32MM/FANTASY/barbarians/32bar-miniature.htm (http://www.bronzeagemin.com/miniatures_html/32MM/FANTASY/barbarians/32bar-miniature.htm)

(http://www.bronzeagemin.com/IMAGES/miniatures/25MM/Fantasy/barbarians25/32-barbarian9-a.jpg)

Title: Re: Who makes the Best non Conan Hyborea range in metal.
Post by: LeadAsbestos on 31 March 2016, 05:35:00 PM

Yep!
(http://displacedminiatures.com/images/0.img.1341798551P1010203.JPG)

Also, the Copplestone 15mm Barbarica are great for Conan if space is a concern, and they are genius sculpts, easily as good as most 28mm.

Title: Re: Who makes the Best non Conan Hyborea range in metal.
Post by: blacksmith on 31 March 2016, 09:23:38 PM

Old Copplestone's from Forlon hope:
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e3oWMxNADr0/U8ANYRcEf9I/AAAAAAAADtw/QOSKRUlguc8/s1600/barbarians+003.JPG)
Young Conan and mature one.

Title: Re: Who makes the Best non Conan Hyborea range in metal.
Post by: THE CID on 31 March 2016, 10:24:25 PM

Quote from: Reed on 31 March 2016, 05:00:34 PM

Looking only for Conan, cimmerians or all kind of people from the Hyborian ages?

looking for anything and everything.

Title: Re: Who makes the Best non Conan Hyborea range in metal.
Post by: guitarheroandy on 01 April 2016, 08:33:22 AM

I'll add my weight to the Bronze Age Minis argument. I recently bought 12 of their barbarians (so basically most of them!) and they are fabulous sculpts! The newer ones are a bit larger than the older models in the range, but that doesn't really matter unless you really have a thing about figure sizes.
Reaper do some fabulous barbarians too, although you need to search a bit in order to find the best ones - there are some super Tre Manor sculpts in amongst them, but he's by no means the only sculptor in there with decent work.
If you want Picts, one novel idea would be Bob Murch's pre-gunpowder Iroquois Indians in his Huron/Iroquois war/Flint and Feather range. The Picts in the Conan stories always strike me as more Eastern Woodland Indian than Neanderthal and the raiders who appear early in the most recent Conan movie are basically exactly that - savage looking Woodland Indian types...

Good luck!  :)

Title: Re: Who makes the Best non Conan Hyborea range in metal.
Post by: beefcake on 01 April 2016, 09:24:40 AM

Hasslefree

Title: Re: Who makes the Best non Conan Hyborea range in metal.
Post by: wulfgar22 on 01 April 2016, 05:11:40 PM

These two are my favourites...through dressed for Vanaheim!

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3XQlo9ny_-I/VgFNmFFjeWI/AAAAAAAADCg/KcX5_JcLeQQ/s1600/Blog-to-Do%2B-%2BNew%2BFrostgrave%2BFigs%2B2.jpg)
Chap on the left is Hasslefree


(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1pAnhglzbX8/VdRvyWO2huI/AAAAAAAAC0c/p2vY5wHdBAI/s1600/Blog%2Bto%2BDo%2B-%2BFG%2BSoldiers%2B2.jpg)
Chap second from left is North Star Frostgrave

Both do a variety of other figs suitable for Hyboria...I have a bunch that I use for Dragon Rampant and Frostgrave on my blog.

Title: Re: Who makes the Best non Conan Hyborea range in metal.
Post by: THE CID on 01 April 2016, 08:21:40 PM

Thanks for all the great suggestions.

Title: Re: Who makes the Best non Conan Hyborea range in metal.
Post by: DivisMal on 01 April 2016, 08:55:34 PM

...or you could go for 15mm instead and use the. E x c e l l e n t  not-Conan range from Copplestone, which is now sold by Northstar!

Title: Re: Who makes the Best non Conan Hyborea range in metal.
Post by: barbaric splendor on 01 April 2016, 11:21:08 PM

I'll add my support for the Bronze Age Miniatures barbarians, they have a very Conan/Frazetta feel to them. Red Box Games has their Helsvakt and Njorn which make great northern barbarians, Aesir or Vanir.  Dark Fable miniatures has some great stuff for Stygia if you want to adventure in that part of the world in the Hyborian Age.