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Title: Chickens?
Post by: Plynkes on May 24, 2011, 12:44:54 PM
I got me a chicken coop. Not much point in having a chicken coop if you ain't got no chickens.


Suggestions?  :)
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Malamute on May 24, 2011, 12:48:29 PM
Architects of War available in the UK from Warlord Games (I think?)

They have a set of chickens. No idea what they are like mind you, but they look ok in the picture.

http://www.architectsofwar.com/animals.aspx
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Plynkes on May 24, 2011, 12:57:59 PM
Perfect!* I'm putting in an order to Warlord this week as it is. Never spotted them fellas.

Thanks, mate.






*Well, almost. A honey badger is what I'd really like, got no use for a fox. 28mm Honey badgers? I guess that's a whole other thread.
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Malamute on May 24, 2011, 01:05:07 PM
Or alternatively you have Hovels where they have a variety of farmyard animals inc various chickens, but no photos....

http://www.hovelsltd.co.uk/animals_25mm.htm
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Lowtardog on May 24, 2011, 01:10:29 PM
Perfect!* I'm putting in an order to Warlord this week as it is. Never spotted them fellas.

Thanks, mate.

Hovels definately is a viable alternative for the chix for honey badger not too sure but know Ral Partha have european/ aftrican animals might be something there






*Well, almost. A honey badger is what I'd really like, got no use for a fox. 28mm Honey badgers? I guess that's a whole other thread.
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Lowtardog on May 24, 2011, 01:12:39 PM
The wolverine here would do as a honey badger

http://www.ralparthaeurope.co.uk/31025-lesser-animals-p-1713.html
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Col.Stone on May 24, 2011, 01:20:00 PM
pegasus hobbies plastic farm animals has chickens
deja vu..:)
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=25813.msg313814#msg313814
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: meninobesta on May 24, 2011, 01:42:45 PM
Hello, I have some chikens for magister millitum, they're part of their 25/28mm range

not the most big or bright chickens around, but they fare ok as chickens!
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Hammers on May 24, 2011, 01:52:07 PM
pegasus hobbies plastic farm animals has chickens
deja vu..:)
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=25813.msg313814#msg313814

Those are just fucking impossible to get hold of. i've been trying to buy them from at least ten merchants, including Pegasus Hobbies itself in the US.
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Plynkes on May 24, 2011, 01:53:11 PM
deja vu..:)


Oops, should've ran a LAF search. Sorry 'bout that. And thanks, guys.

Nice idea to use a wolverine as a honey badger. I wouldn't have thought of that. They are both just vicious, delinquent weasels when it comes down to it.
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Operator5 on May 24, 2011, 01:57:40 PM
If you want some honey badgers...

http://www.darkswordminiatures.com/mainwebsite_html/gallery/V_7801_honeybadgers.htm (http://www.darkswordminiatures.com/mainwebsite_html/gallery/V_7801_honeybadgers.htm)
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Hammers on May 24, 2011, 02:39:16 PM
See the creature in the upper row in this Reaper set, Dylan? I have one with your name on it, if you want it.

(http://www.reapermini.com/graphics/gallery/4/02593_G.jpg)
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Hammers on May 24, 2011, 02:41:48 PM
Quite educational and funny, this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81bcjyfn6U (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81bcjyfn6U)

Tough little bastards, aren't they?
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Plynkes on May 24, 2011, 02:57:18 PM
Honey badgers are the reason that the famous Tanga beehives, rather than looking like this:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/beehive.gif)

...instead looked like this:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/tangabees.jpg)

...because the former would last about two seconds against them.
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Operator5 on May 24, 2011, 02:58:11 PM
Tough little bastards, aren't they?

Geez! I guess with a name like Honey Badger you gotta be tough.  lol
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Froggy the Great on May 24, 2011, 03:12:56 PM
Reaper has a townsfolk pack with chickens in it, which you can buy by the sprue:
http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/chicken/latest/03233
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Remington on May 24, 2011, 03:35:30 PM
Matakishi had mentioned the Amazon chickens at Frother's. He had even posted a picture.

(http://www.matakishi.com/Livestock%20chickens%20600.jpg)

And then there is Mirliton, which I've seen in the flesh and quite like. They look a bit rough on the picture but painted they looked great.

(http://www.mirliton.it/images/catalog/AC024.jpg)
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Hammers on May 24, 2011, 03:45:57 PM
Matakishi had mentioned the Amazon chickens at Frother's. He had even posted a picture.

(http://www.matakishi.com/Livestock%20chickens%20600.jpg)

And then there is Mirliton, which I've seen in the flesh and quite like. They look a bit rough on the picture but painted they looked great.

(http://www.mirliton.it/images/catalog/AC024.jpg)

I used those for my LPL5 Smut Valley Cattle Market. I am not very keen on them, a tad to crude and mono-pose. The Pegasus Hobbies set look like the shit, IMO.
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Black Cat Bases on May 24, 2011, 04:23:13 PM
We sell chickens: http://blackcatbases.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=437_438&sort=20a&page=3

Jo:)
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Plynkes on May 24, 2011, 04:27:51 PM
Now my problem is too many chickens. I have no idea which ones to get.  lol
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Remington on May 24, 2011, 06:27:59 PM
I can hear the manufacturers:

"All of them!"
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Hammers on May 24, 2011, 07:19:12 PM
Geez! I guess with a name like Honey Badger you gotta be tough.  lol

"Fuck you, bee! I want that honey! Give it up or I'll rip you a new asshole!"  lol

There's a clip on youtube of a honey badger going head to head with a leopard. It behaves like it's from the worst parts of New Jersey.
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Operator5 on May 24, 2011, 07:29:43 PM
It behaves like it's from the worst parts of New Jersey.

It must have some Piney blood in it then. You don't mess with residents of the Pine Barrens.  >:D
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Col.Stone on May 24, 2011, 07:35:15 PM
The Pegasus Hobbies set look like the shit, IMO.

I got mine from caliver books if that helps:)
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: FifteensAway on May 25, 2011, 04:58:34 AM
Damn it!  There are not TOO many chickens.  These are all 25-28 mm.  Where the hell are the ones in 15 mm?  >:(

Okay, well, Museum Miniatures does have some and I did get some but you Big Boy boys are spoiled for choice - even for chickens!   lol

Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Hammers on May 25, 2011, 06:03:17 AM
I got mine from caliver books if that helps:)

Caliver books, eh...? They are on my shitlist.  >:D
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: carlos marighela on May 25, 2011, 07:55:15 AM
I hate to say it but the average chicken in your average developing world country looks nothing like the average plump egg layer found  elsewhere and thus not a lot like the Architects of War versions. At least the ones I've seen haven't. They tend to a rather lean rangy look. Wiry looking racing chickens. But as these are toys or tokens I suppose anything is cool.

Dunno whether they are widespread across Africa but there's a rather peculiar but not unattractive breed found in Angola. They have these in Brazil too where they are called galinha d'Angola, literally Angolan Chickens.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GALINHA-D'ANGOLA_(Numida_meleagris).jpg
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Plynkes on May 25, 2011, 08:10:15 AM
You know, I think you can take the search for accuracy a little too far. I'm not really all that bothered if my chickens are too fat, as long as they look like chickens.  ;)

Besides, apart from the red robes and war paint this Masai chicken here looks no different to me to the Welsh ones that I remember growing up on a farm in my youth.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/img_3209-large.jpg)


Their coops are a little different, though...

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/maasai-4140.jpg)

Masai walker for VSF, anyone? :)
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: meninobesta on May 25, 2011, 09:07:24 AM
Take it Plynkes! my daughter caught a chicken for you! :D

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_oObns3UosHo/TdzGegLZvRI/AAAAAAAAC4Q/VZbRwUXegg0/s800/113_8404.JPG)
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Hammers on May 25, 2011, 09:12:42 AM
She already knows how to wring a chickens neck?! Awww, you brought her up well!

On a serious note, you have a darling daughter, sir.
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on May 25, 2011, 09:13:34 AM
We sell chickens: http://blackcatbases.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=437_438&sort=20a&page=3

Jo:)

Thanks for posting that Jo. I didn't realise you had such a great ramge of animals.

Very useful!  :D
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Plynkes on May 25, 2011, 09:13:53 AM
That's a great photo.  :)


When I was her age me and the chickens were sworn enemies. They would chase and peck me. I would retaliate by throwing stones at them, cackling like a maniac as they scattered about the farmyard in a cloud of feathers.
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: carlos marighela on May 25, 2011, 09:44:54 AM
It is indeed and congratulations on such fine looking offspring.
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: carlos marighela on May 25, 2011, 10:32:49 AM
Don't count yer chickens afore they 'atch.

@plynkes: bloody middle class chickens! :)
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: meninobesta on May 25, 2011, 08:48:18 PM
you are too kind sirs!  :)
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on May 26, 2011, 07:55:21 AM
Considering the amount of interest displayed I was wondering if we need a separate Chicken Board?



(ova and out ;))

That's eggsactly the sort of thing we don't need here. It would be a fowl thing!
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Plynkes on May 26, 2011, 08:00:12 AM
Any more of this and I'm locking the thread. Two pages of curry-related puns might pass for discussion in Byklabad, but I'm damned if I'll have it here on my thread.  :)
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on May 26, 2011, 08:07:19 AM
Any more of this and I'm locking the thread. Two pages of curry-related puns might pass for discussion in Byklabad, but I'm damned if I'll have it here on one my thread.  :)

He started it  :P

 lol

Fair enough  :)
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: carlos marighela on May 26, 2011, 08:14:53 AM
He started it  :P

So which came first? The chicken or the egg?
Title: Re: Chickens?
Post by: Plynkes on May 26, 2011, 08:24:42 AM
Why, I oughta...