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Title: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: orc on December 07, 2016, 08:21:58 AM
Hi All,

I want to start a new project 28mm miniatures in a prehistoric/fantasy world, like the old movie "Tygra Fire and Ice"..as a reference but "Stone Age".For my first tribe "the good guys" I want to go with Copplestone,cave minis....but for the "bad guys" I want some kind of Brutal Neanderthal minis in frazetta designs way...any suggestion please? Until know I find the dark art minis as and option, but not idea about the scale comparision with copplestone minis...  ???

Thanks in advance!!!

Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: Duncan McDane on December 07, 2016, 12:04:47 PM
Did you notice the Picts from the Conan Boxed game?
The quality of the Picts is ace ( good, sharp details ), the box offers 3 different warrior sculpts ( 2 with handweapon, 1 bowman ) and a shaman. They are quite big, but as you're looking for Frazetta style warriors they'll do the job.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/806316071/conan

and:

http://www.beastsofwar.com/conan-hyborian-quest/pictish-warrior-prototype-gaming-conan/

Lucid Eye ( Walord, their Savage Core miniatures ) offers some more traditional Neanderthals. Have them and really like them and the are quite big aswell:

http://www.warlordgames.com/return-to-the-savage-core-neanderthals/
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: LeadAsbestos on December 07, 2016, 01:38:20 PM
Mick Leach is sitting on a pile of greens based off Frazetta's Neanderthals, and they are absolutely perfect. Part of a larger prehistoric project, sadly unreleased. I'll see if I can hunt down the pics. And I'll go bug him abt them again !😉
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: orc on December 07, 2016, 02:28:09 PM
Duncan Mc Dane: thanks very much for your ideas, I know savage core range...great miniatures but I'm looking something more grotesque! About Conan Picts is one possibility but I prefer find something in meta if is posible!  :D

LeadAsbestos: ;D this can be great! Waiting for your pics!!
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: pacarat on December 07, 2016, 03:39:59 PM
Ral Partha did some way back when that are based on that first pic of Frazetta's...

01-078 Hillmen.
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: Jagannath on December 07, 2016, 04:38:46 PM
What about the Otherworld cavemen? Not a perfect match but pretty good

(http://otherworldminiatures.co.uk/figures/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/cavemanwarband1paint1.jpg)

http://otherworldminiatures.co.uk/shop/men-of-evil/me4d-caveman-warband-7/
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: LeadAsbestos on December 07, 2016, 04:56:48 PM
(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/s480x480/943514_10151363582317063_212107566_n.jpg?oh=7a2534b3dcf1ff6804acbf40ae6d886c&oe=58B985FA)

(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/58147_10151344744922063_487337476_n.jpg?oh=5e3c9e6941401d3e2d10fa611249bca1&oe=58F76DBD)

(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/539720_10151342519402063_1564024779_n.jpg?oh=1c3043e1ed7ac29dd79cbdf465cfa037&oe=58F45E52)

Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: LeadAsbestos on December 07, 2016, 04:57:56 PM
There are more out there if I can hunt them down. Drew Williams sculpts for Eastern Front Studios, stuck out there in limbo, unproduced!  :'(

Here they are:
(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/421860_10151281195087063_236943480_n.jpg?oh=778f67ba203a3f893338fe96ad576489&oe=58BEC09A)

(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/295593_10151281194952063_1565308425_n.jpg?oh=979b6e197a240671b1c0ba5c00e4f12b&oe=58F3D857)

(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/535658_10151281199617063_228700740_n.jpg?oh=c5d8e42ec1e07a7b994a09f871ad0f5a&oe=58B61A74)

(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/64882_10151281194932063_993625190_n.jpg?oh=ea807f71fd5cfb8b2924d7fcb975b4a2&oe=58FA6F0A)

(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/37030_10151343874267063_1655639434_n.jpg?oh=4a7463b0f200b50128824a30f3ea8e7b&oe=58C3B903)
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: LeadAsbestos on December 07, 2016, 05:06:05 PM
Droolworthy, if I may say so myself. :-* :-*
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: ErikB on December 07, 2016, 05:36:06 PM
I second Lucid Eye's cavemen.  Not quite the style for which you were asking but I think the Cro Mags, Neanderthals, and Amazons look great.

I love those greens above, as well.  Great job.  Wish I could find them in the store.
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: Jagannath on December 07, 2016, 05:48:21 PM
Those sculpts are fantastic. Someone needs to release them!
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: Captain Blood on December 07, 2016, 07:27:44 PM
Here are the Lucid Eye neanderthals with my paintwork (as used on the product packaging now, in fact!)

Brilliant figures, albeit not quite so 'sub human' / brute looking as the Frazetta paintings...


(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/22/577_31_07_15_4_51_11_0.jpg)
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: ErikB on December 07, 2016, 09:57:59 PM
Ah, YOU painted those!  And did you do the Cro Mags, too?

That Cro Mag leader is one of my all time favorite minis.  I've been trying to emulate your paint job on several instances of that mini.  It turns out okay but not like the Lucid Eye official one.

Did you do the chimps and Amazons, too? 

Man, you cost me so much money....
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: Captain Blood on December 07, 2016, 11:44:37 PM
Um, not sure. Possibly the chimps, but I haven't seen the packaging on those. I haven't painted the cro-magnons.

Here are my chimps...  :)

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/22/577_07_06_15_3_28_07_2.jpg)

For close-ups and lots more, my LAF Cave Wars gallery is here:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=gallery;su=user;cat=749;u=577;start=0
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: LeadAsbestos on December 08, 2016, 12:17:47 AM
Capt, that is a great gallery! My own apes are here, as a Frostgrave warband:

(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14440802_1276933862316669_2507824651523314717_n.jpg?oh=67642f1556d27cff4fa1e477b58385f1&oe=586A7FF9)
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: Daeothar on December 08, 2016, 09:30:23 AM
Sorry; not really any help, but damn; what is wrong with her hand? lol

(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=96050.0;attach=53910;image)
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: Captain Blood on December 08, 2016, 09:32:48 AM
Hands are the hardest thing to draw right...  ::)
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: Duncan McDane on December 08, 2016, 12:09:46 PM
She's halfway morphing into some primeval Ghoulish Vampirella-appearance, ready to claw at Neanderflesh and squirting poison from her killer bustier.
( yes, I need to read more decent books and watch more To the Manor Born-like movies  ;) ).
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: ErikB on December 08, 2016, 05:12:30 PM
She's a relative of Mierce's Penda....
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: Commander Roj on December 08, 2016, 07:43:45 PM
There are more out there if I can hunt them down. Drew Williams sculpts for Eastern Front Studios, stuck out there in limbo, unproduced!  :'(

Here they are:


Unproduced...what a crime!
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: Spooktalker on December 09, 2016, 05:40:12 AM
I have some figures that from the moment I saw them I immediately thought of that first Frazetta picture and would be surprised if they were not directly inspired by it.

(http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/images/f/f6/Minifigs-wogreyhawk-wog9.jpg)

Minifigs World of Greyhawk cavemen

I really like them and intend to paint them for D&D.

http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/images/f/f6/Minifigs-wogreyhawk-wog9.jpg (http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/images/f/f6/Minifigs-wogreyhawk-wog9.jpg)
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: Hammers on December 09, 2016, 07:06:48 AM
Here are the Lucid Eye neanderthals with my paintwork (as used on the product packaging now, in fact!)

Brilliant figures, albeit not quite so 'sub human' / brute looking as the Frazetta paintings...


(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/22/577_31_07_15_4_51_11_0.jpg)

Truely lovely, those.
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: Alxbates on December 10, 2016, 01:09:40 PM
Capt, that is a great gallery! My own apes are here, as a Frostgrave warband:

(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14440802_1276933862316669_2507824651523314717_n.jpg?oh=67642f1556d27cff4fa1e477b58385f1&oe=586A7FF9)

What's that big orangutan-looking guy in the back row?  I don't think I've seen that figure before.
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: LeadAsbestos on December 10, 2016, 02:13:40 PM
He is a Frostgrave Snow Ape, kind of a crappy sculpt, but he plays his role...
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: ErikB on December 10, 2016, 03:46:44 PM
What's that big orangutan-looking guy in the back row?  I don't think I've seen that figure before.
Looks like my brother in law.
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: Little Odo on December 10, 2016, 04:06:39 PM
Great looking ape warband.
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: orc on December 11, 2016, 01:21:35 PM
Thanks for your sugestions Guys ;)!! very bad luck this minis from Drew Williams, are greats! Until some one decide to produce franzetta style cavemans.... I will go with Lucid Eyes Neanderthals, captain Blood your neanderthal are very inspirational, the best so far!!!! Today I place my order , at soon as I put my hands on them I'm planning to do some conversions in order to give them more...cannibal/savage look! ;D LeadAsbestos great ape band and thanks for your photos!!!. Now I need to find some scenery suitable with this minis....

Alxbates I see on internet some "barbaric/Neanderthal" huts from you, is that posible? Can you post some photos please? I trully hope they can be aviable....they are perfect to use with Cave scenarios..... :-*
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: Alxbates on December 12, 2016, 07:00:10 AM
Thanks for your sugestions Guys ;)!! very bad luck this minis from Drew Williams, are greats! Until some one decide to produce franzetta style cavemans.... I will go with Lucid Eyes Neanderthals, captain Blood your neanderthal are very inspirational, the best so far!!!! Today I place my order , at soon as I put my hands on them I'm planning to do some conversions in order to give them more...cannibal/savage look! ;D LeadAsbestos great ape band and thanks for your photos!!!. Now I need to find some scenery suitable with this minis....

Alxbates I see on internet some "barbaric/Neanderthal" huts from you, is that posible? Can you post some photos please? I trully hope they can be aviable....they are perfect to use with Cave scenarios..... :-*

Orc - I do have a bunch of pics on the thread about the tents here:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=96110.0;topicseen
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: orc on December 12, 2016, 11:30:25 AM
 :-* :-* :-*Thanks Alex! I need your tents, are perfect to use in any caveman project!!         also interested to find some fertility statue to use with my neanderthals! Any idea where can find something similar ???
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: Alxbates on December 12, 2016, 12:03:46 PM
:-* :-* :-*Thanks Alex! I need your tents, are perfect to use in any caveman project!!         also interested to find some fertility statue to use with my neanderthals! Any idea where can find something similar ???

It just so happens that I might...

(http://i.imgur.com/rLTt9bg.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/88Ee94a.jpg)

Although mine is tiny - under 20mm tall.  It's meant to be a treasure item or terrain accent.  Only $1!
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: LeadAsbestos on December 12, 2016, 01:59:59 PM
Well, $hit! It seems like we have some very similar ideas going on! Alex, I'll have an idol too please!
The Wendol in Eaters of the Dead/13th Warrior worship a blood soaked Venus similar to that. Another reason to paint some Vikings with ones cave people!
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: HerbyF on December 13, 2016, 12:13:07 AM
That Idol is sometimes called the Willendorf Venus. It is thought to maybe be an old European fertility goddess. Berkta, or Bertha of the Norse/Germanic pathian. You can usually find them at occult shops fairly cheap.
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: orc on December 13, 2016, 04:55:51 AM
 :o this is just what I was looking for!! Thanks Alex.... :D
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: Diablo Jon on December 13, 2016, 06:53:00 AM
What about Pulp Figures lost tribes

https://www.cruciblecrush.com/shop/pulp-figures/plt-lost-tribes/ (https://www.cruciblecrush.com/shop/pulp-figures/plt-lost-tribes/)

(https://www.cruciblecrush.com/image/w400-h300-c4:3/files/56bf8565-f05c-45f3-abe5-215ad8b0b5a5.JPG)

(https://www.cruciblecrush.com/image/w400-h300-c4:3/files/56bf820b-b9d0-48e7-b05c-1ab3d8b0b5a5.JPG)

Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: ErikB on December 13, 2016, 05:54:54 PM
Bob Murch took those cavemen out of production and sort-of announced he would be making a new line of cavemen.

Not sure when or if he really will but I would be really happy to see them!
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: Diablo Jon on December 13, 2016, 06:23:13 PM
Bob Murch took those cavemen out of production and sort-of announced he would be making a new line of cavemen.

Not sure when or if he really will but I would be really happy to see them!

Ahhh probably explains why I couldn't find them going through the main website but could find them via bing images. Interesting to see what the new ones will look like.
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: pacarat on December 13, 2016, 09:55:57 PM
Ahhh probably explains why I couldn't find them going through the main website but could find them via bing images. Interesting to see what the new ones will look like.

cruciblecrush carries them, but they have mold line issues (which is why I suspect Bob pulled them...molds don't last forever.)
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: orc on December 14, 2016, 02:27:13 AM
Diablo Jon: Thanks for your sugestion, I like specially the civilians! ;)

Great to know a new line of caveman is coming! :-*
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: barbaric splendor on December 14, 2016, 03:59:49 AM
It just so happens that I might...

(http://i.imgur.com/rLTt9bg.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/88Ee94a.jpg)

Although mine is tiny - under 20mm tall.  It's meant to be a treasure item or terrain accent.  Only $1!

I must have missed that you had this! Would be great for inclusion in a Conan scenario involving Picts or maybe Ligureans.
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: Alxbates on December 14, 2016, 07:46:08 AM
Well, it's pretty tiny.  Easy to miss ;)
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis? Scenery to use with Neanderthals minis?
Post by: orc on December 14, 2016, 12:58:14 PM
Now time to find some scenery and compatible terrain useful with my neanderthal and caveman minis.... I'm looking for a Henge stonene or Stone circle.

I find this one...but not very happy....any other idea?


Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: LeadAsbestos on December 14, 2016, 01:18:16 PM
Make one! I always thought commercial rocks were the height of madness... :)
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: orc on December 14, 2016, 02:04:57 PM
 ;D I already did one last year LeadAsbestos (to use with my mithril miniatures) but moving the scenery I broke some pieces >:(... so I prefer find something more durable in resin... :P


Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis? Scenery to use with Neanderthals minis?
Post by: Diablo Jon on December 14, 2016, 07:19:39 PM
Now time to find some scenery and compatible terrain useful with my neanderthal and caveman minis.... I'm looking for a Henge stonene or Stone circle.

I find this one...but not very happy....any other idea?




Mirliton do a Stonehenge temple

(http://www.mirliton.it/images/catalog/ston-1.jpg)

http://mirliton.it/product_info.php?pName=the-stonehenge-temple (http://mirliton.it/product_info.php?pName=the-stonehenge-temple)

Scotia Grendel do these

(http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Products/images/Grendel%20Fantasy/10018_standing_stones.gif)

http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Products/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=227_41&products_id=2701 (http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Products/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=227_41&products_id=2701)
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: ErikB on December 14, 2016, 07:32:28 PM
Simple ones can't be too hard to make.  You could use legos to start and file to shape, then cover with stucco, putty, or something.  Or coffee stirring sticks, layered together, covered with putty.  That would be a lot of fun to make.

Getting those etchings in the surface is a bigger deal.  Could look really cool if they light up with some kind of mystic energy, paint with light blue, red, or green.   :)
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis?
Post by: mweaver on December 19, 2016, 04:13:32 AM
The old Ral Partha hillmen seem to have that look, to me:

(https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.M28a52d1414da25729d5b831b962ce76do0&pid=15.1)

(http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/7b/cf/4e/7bcf4e70f17f07cefb9915c98c87fe3c.jpg)

There were I think three poses.  I don't know if anyone has the rights to them now.

-Michael
Title: Re: Neanderhtal frazetta style minis? Scenery to use with Neanderthals minis?
Post by: SotF on December 20, 2016, 02:03:42 AM
Now time to find some scenery and compatible terrain useful with my neanderthal and caveman minis.... I'm looking for a Henge stonene or Stone circle.

I find this one...but not very happy....any other idea?
Reaper made one for one of their Bones kickstarters that will, hopefully, show up on their store sometime soon...