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Miniatures Adventure => Pikes, Muskets and Flouncy Shirts => Topic started by: Malamute on November 28, 2009, 11:22:40 AM
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I am looking for some livestock to flesh out my games, goats, donkeys maybe some pigs, you know the kind of thing you will see in a village or small town.
Any suggestions as to where to get them from?
( I am not keen to pay £10.75 plus postage from the Foundry, although they have exactly what I am looking for. ::) )
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Have you had a look at Caliver Books.
Normal P&P is cheaper.
But they have an offer of spend £16.50 and get world wide free postage.
They have some Foundry animals.
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I think the current rate is 'your daughter'.
(Was that too naughty?) :)
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Amazon Miniatures and Irregular Miniatures both do reasonable livestock at good prices. Might have to email Amazon about them as they're changing casters or something.
Amazon goats, £6.00 for this lot:
(http://www.matakishi.com/Livestock%20goats%20600.jpg)
Mega Minis do some too but there seem to be less UK suppliers now so postage becomes a factor again.
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Well you have a 20% off code and either a book or £70.00 worth of goats get you free postage.
Or
http://www.megaminis.com/ http://www.irregularminiatures.co.uk/
I know what I would do and I think you agree :)
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Amazon goats are my recomendation too, hocels do a few too I think
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http://www.megaminis.com/
these guys have every animal you could think of even odd stuff like koalas and flamingos. I've picked up his poultry and a few goats and stuff to add to my town (not that I've gotten around to painting any of them)
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But aren't megaminis notoriously smallish - more true 25mm?
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Pegasus have plastic goats in their 1/48 farm animals set, however, it's not worth it just for goats. If you're interested in a broader range of animals as well as goats, the set doesn't work out so bad. It has chickens, pigeons, turkeys, goats, sheep, oxen, donkeys and cattle plus 2 farm dogs. The box they ship in is much larger than the contents, it would have been nicer if they lumped a few more of the smaller animal sprues in it.
One box doesn't give you much of anything with any of the animals in it.
Here's a view of the goats/sheep against a 28mm Eureka 7YW
(http://www.chronofus.net/wargames/frames/screens/7006b.jpg)
I imaged the rest of the set here: http://chronofus.net/php/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=251
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But aren't megaminis notoriously smallish - more true 25mm?
They are, but for animals, does it really matter? Big goat, small goat, still just a goat.
Unless you're a certain regular over on a frothier forum than this; he's rumoured to have more interest than is polite to mention in LAF's rarified and civilized halls. lol
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Steders!
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lol
Seriously though - i'd probably for for the foundry goats (using the discount, but only if you had other stuff you wanted to make the postage worthwhile), or the Amazon ones.
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But aren't megaminis notoriously smallish - more true 25mm?
Not to bad. But it is a pity you get a bag of 10 all in the same pose.
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there are also a couple of farm animals from the old grenadier colection (if I'm not mistaken)
http://www.mirliton.it/index.php?page=1&cName=medieval-accessories&sort=1a
sheep can play the roll of goats from the light side :D
NOTE: there are some other distributors from this minis in the UK
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Those Pegasus sets are very good value. Two or three of those would give most of the domestic animals you'd need for a variety of periods. Probably not good value to buy just for a large herd of goats, though :?
I'll definitely find good use for them, so thanks for posting, cdm :D
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I got most of my livestock from Gripping Beast. Their horses are horrible, but the rest are pretty good. http://www.grippingbeast.com/shop.php?CatID=23 (http://www.grippingbeast.com/shop.php?CatID=23) they do sheep and pigs, but I do not see any goats. I could swear my chickens and ducks also came from them, but I don't see them listed.
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Not to bad. But it is a pity you get a bag of 10 all in the same pose.
I think they are sculpted by Bob Olley you kow (useless fact 73)
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With apologies for the necromancy but this has proved a most useful thread, as I too need goats albeit for my F&IW colonial settlement.
As I'm having a go at a bit of sculpting at the mo I thought I'd try and produce my own small herd. One thing I'm stuck on is the type of goat. For example:
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g22/imagebucket_2006/wargaming/goats.jpg)
Does anyone have a view on which might be the most representative for 18thC north east America?
From a wiki site:
The history of goats in North America began with the arrival of Spanish explorers and settlers in the 1500s. English settlers brought a few goats to New England beginning in the 1600s. These two types accounted for most of the goats found in North America until the time of the Civil War. These goats had little market value and were never recognized as distinct breeds.
And then looking at the historical European images here
http://www.georgeglazer.com/archives/prints/animals/alessandri.html (http://www.georgeglazer.com/archives/prints/animals/alessandri.html)
kinda suggests top left to me, but with horns.
Thoughts, please, anyone?
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I buy bags of cheap plastic farm animals at the dollar store. They clean up easily with an X-acto knife & look fine after an undercoat of primer and a good paint job. Usually get plenty of goats along with sheep, chickens, pigs, and cows.
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I buy bags of cheap plastic farm animals at the dollar store. They clean up easily with an X-acto knife & look fine after an undercoat of primer and a good paint job. Usually get plenty of goats along with sheep, chickens, pigs, and cows.
That's a great tip Herby but despite many (and sometimes arduous!) searches through £1 stores and toy shops in the UK, I have yet to find anything that will scale right. :'(
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I buy bags of cheap plastic farm animals at the dollar store. They clean up easily with an X-acto knife & look fine after an undercoat of primer and a good paint job. Usually get plenty of goats along with sheep, chickens, pigs, and cows.
Have you got any pics Herby F?
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Some interesting farm animals here:
http://www.diorama-dreamland.at/nikolai/index.htm
they are 1/72 in scale made of resin.
They are very beautiful, maybe small, but worth looking at.
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That website is an inspiration - lovely images. Personally, having previously looked at 00 scale (Hornby) farm animals I think 1/72 would be too small for me. Thanks for flagging the site tho. :)