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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Plynkes on May 24, 2011, 12:44:54 PM
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I got me a chicken coop. Not much point in having a chicken coop if you ain't got no chickens.
Suggestions? :)
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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The wolverine here would do as a honey badger
http://www.ralparthaeurope.co.uk/31025-lesser-animals-p-1713.html
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pegasus hobbies plastic farm animals has chickens
deja vu..:)
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=25813.msg313814#msg313814
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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)
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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?
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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.
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Tough little bastards, aren't they?
Geez! I guess with a name like Honey Badger you gotta be tough. lol
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Reaper has a townsfolk pack with chickens in it, which you can buy by the sprue:
http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/chicken/latest/03233
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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)
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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.
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We sell chickens: http://blackcatbases.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=437_438&sort=20a&page=3
Jo:)
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Now my problem is too many chickens. I have no idea which ones to get. lol
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I can hear the manufacturers:
"All of them!"
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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.
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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
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The Pegasus Hobbies set look like the shit, IMO.
I got mine from caliver books if that helps:)
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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
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I got mine from caliver books if that helps:)
Caliver books, eh...? They are on my shitlist. >:D
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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
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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? :)
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Take it Plynkes! my daughter caught a chicken for you! :D
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_oObns3UosHo/TdzGegLZvRI/AAAAAAAAC4Q/VZbRwUXegg0/s800/113_8404.JPG)
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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.
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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
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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.
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It is indeed and congratulations on such fine looking offspring.
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Don't count yer chickens afore they 'atch.
@plynkes: bloody middle class chickens! :)
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you are too kind sirs! :)
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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!
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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. :)
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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 :)
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He started it :P
So which came first? The chicken or the egg?
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Why, I oughta...