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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Condottiere on June 15, 2022, 05:09:28 PM
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Didn't see any threads mentioning this KS... :-I
Ral Partha's Chaos Wars Wave 4 Thunderbolt Mountain: 30mm pewter miniatures sculpted by Tom Meier, and the 4th campaign book for the Chaos Wars setting. (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ralparthalegacy/ral-parthas-chaos-wars-wave-4-thunderbolt-mountain?ref=user_menu)
I pledged for the 30mm Tom Meier "Humans"...
(https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/037/451/763/025793aa878952a9f172b90ec7f0f033_original.JPG?ixlib=rb-4.0.2&w=680&fit=max&v=1653623887&gif-q=50&q=92&s=81e403405306dc09353fe901032a61af) (https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/037/480/939/42cf0a8e801cdae3aae9b39d4a450ba5_original.JPG?ixlib=rb-4.0.2&w=680&fit=max&v=1653918883&gif-q=50&q=92&s=1f537894cb3190b9c09e25f8000fc38c)(https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/037/480/943/fcc7685cb1e71389bd7278d0e284af20_original.JPG?ixlib=rb-4.0.2&w=680&fit=max&v=1653918918&gif-q=50&q=92&s=2b334e5dd08e981053f434fbc43f0748)(https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/037/480/951/3dd7fa8ef4595c19a13c12be607bbd3f_original.JPG?ixlib=rb-4.0.2&w=680&fit=max&v=1653918981&gif-q=50&q=92&s=4b435f02bdd4f6448374131fd93cc0fb)(https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/037/600/232/71d27570da87ea99806a5a4fecbdda35_original.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.0.2&w=680&fit=max&v=1654828897&gif-q=50&q=92&s=e0ceab99486901e5322df8f61b5ab4df)(https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/037/600/252/2f81329e6b59476c1d88f8cb56c4749d_original.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.0.2&w=680&fit=max&v=1654829167&gif-q=50&q=92&s=0ad58d4175fe170ba27090a15cd51210)
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The caricature style really does not work for me.
The OTT muscles on the barbarian, stupidly thin (with odd thigh gap) female, super tall dwarves and a direct rip-off from LOTR surprises me for Tom Meier.
Even the goblins are lack lustre and nothing new...
Strange commission TBH.
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Bare metal and greens of the human figures: Realms of Men New Sculpts (https://www.dropbox.com/s/ajmngywwb0jywl0/CWKS4-08-401%20-%20Humans%20-%20New%20Releases%20-%20PDF.pdf?dl=0)
The female barbarian looks better in bare metal and comparable to Wargames Foundry, while the male barbarian looks barely human. The wizard looks LotR inspired, but it's a magic user with a staff and there's only so much variation on this type - I've seen many Gandalf lookalikes.
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Really like the top two knights as I am much more into Thunderbolt Mt's Arthur line.
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Like the new Elves. The style of the new Dwarfs doesn't work for me.
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Even the goblins are lack lustre and nothing new
There seemed quite a lot of new goblin sculps, just too big for me at 30mm scale.
The new troll sculps are welcome as being for me book faithful.
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The new troll sculps are welcome as being for me book faithful.
Toes on the feet, though! :o
They do look great - a modern take on some of the late-70s Meier classics.
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Toes on the feet, though! :o
I think I can live with that! ;)
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I'm a raging TM fanboy so I'm biting my proverbial tongue re: some comments :)
Even so I agree with some posters on the dwarves - not my style. I prefer the Conquest and Vendel look. The goblins though, 1979 or 2010s, are sweet as honey IMO. I hope the elf range expands. I don't like my the GW LotR poses and the Oathmark figs are a bit average. I'd pay a premium for these if there were some cavalry as well.
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I realize we're in the early days of the campaign, but compared to the Firelock KS, Ral Partha Legacy has been rather good with communication and hype. I hope it gets to $20k, so I could add the mounted warlord...
(https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/037/704/233/80145d7a224a864d594220bc12734a90_original.JPG?ixlib=rb-4.0.2&w=700&fit=max&v=1655740026&gif-q=50&q=92&s=e51347a571c992f9071180a9d8fd4bc3)(https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/037/704/241/a60d7eae1de8867512b3957039f8032b_original.JPG?ixlib=rb-4.0.2&w=700&fit=max&v=1655740057&gif-q=50&q=92&s=174f082adf1a75f956349af12570fe27)