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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Barks on May 02, 2012, 04:37:35 AM
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Pics of my old Doom figures. A great gun-crawl game.
http://wargamingwithbarks.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/doom-boardgame-figures.html (http://wargamingwithbarks.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/doom-boardgame-figures.html)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5PSM-LQ1jUI/T6CjA-wk0DI/AAAAAAAABDE/FZZ-Hx4vr20/s400/Doom+Marines.JPG)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vK4dJ27x0pQ/T6CjBn8dfxI/AAAAAAAABDI/qdokWCdoS_c/s400/Cyberdemon.JPG)
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Thats nice! I keep getting impressed by how good such an ugly plastic mini can look like when painted.
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Lovely, lovely, lovely! :-*
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Funny, I'd been getting all nostalgic about Doom recently!
Nice work, re-paints of pre-paints can be quite a task!
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Funny, I'd been getting all nostalgic about Doom recently!
Nice work, re-paints of pre-paints can be quite a task!
:? The Doom models aren't prepaints are they?
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Nope, red and blue plastic IIRC.
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Red, green and blue to be precise. They couldn't have chosen any more psychedelic colors o_o
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Red, green and blue to be precise. They couldn't have chosen any more psychedelic colors o_o
yellow and pink perhaps ? lol
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Great painting on these miniatures.
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Not keen on the marines (though you've painted them really well) but the daemons/zombies etc. look amazing. Time to scour ebay me thinks. :D
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You did a really great paint job on those marines.
And all the invaders turned out very scary too.
I have both sets too and I'm currently painting them. Hope they turn out as good as yours.
Thanks for sharing.
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That's pretty cool. I'm also in the same mood, painting and detailing board games plastic figures. I recently painted (about 50figures in 20days, including full time job :lol: ) Wrath of Ashardalon box, and I'm currently working on a 3d dungeon set for it.
I also bought Castle Ravenloft...And started to paint, but I'm a way slower.
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Did you guys know that Reaper did a near-complete set (Spider Mastermind is missing) of 28mm miniatures for the original Doom games? Some Cyberdemons were later included in collector's editions of Doom 3.
(http://img247.echo.cx/img247/7264/doom1va.jpg)
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Yes I did ;)
If I recall correctly, it's one of the earliest things they did. Nice models, never got around to ordering them though and now I have the Doom Boardgame I'll probably never order them either...
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Nice! Are they 28mm?
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If you mean the Reaper stuff, yes. But they are long OOP and go for very high prices on ebay etc. Complete sets wil probably cost 150 EUR+.
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If you mean the Reaper stuff, yes. But they are long OOP and go for very high prices on ebay etc.
Yep. You'll be bidding against miniature collectors (who are quite crazy) AND Doom collectors (who are outright crazy). There's one guy who basically bid on every such item all through the 00s. The last figure I heard was from 2009. By that time he had over 500 Doom minis, including...
- several rejected cyberdemon prototypes from the studio
- the only arachnotron prototype cast in the world
- a full set of unopened blisters signed by the appropriate sculptors
- Ed Pugh's private collection, painted by Ed himself :o
...and so on, you get the idea. So...happy bidding? Even loose minis can go for $100 or something like that, unopened for more. Maybe not all of them. I just don't dare to look.
If only they could renew the licence and cast a new batch for us silly gits who just want some simple toys for gaming...
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Interesting... How about the new plastic Doom Figures?
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I have some of those Reaper Doom miniatures. I've even painted up a couple. They look great, but suffer from the "Chorus Line of Doom" effect, since there's only one pose per monster type. On the other hand it's not like I'll ever have a complete collection. I've got an Arachnotron on card that may never see paint. It's kinda daunting to put an irreplaceable $100 + miniature under a can of $5 can of primer.
As for the plastic minis from the board game, they look great. Unfortunately I'm more interested in the pre-Doom 3 stuff. Doom 3 takes the game too seriously for me.
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The plastic minis from the boardgame are 28mm scale.
I don't have them at hand, but if I remember correctly the marines are exactly 28mm to eyeline. Some monsters (fat zombies, for example) are the same height, but most are taller (the more powerful the bigger). So they should work a treat with 30mm minis, and most with 32mm too. Using them with 35mm, except for the bigger guys, would make the monsters (imps, for example) look too small to be menacing.
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I'd say the Marines will look a little smallish compared to heroic 28mm miniatures. With the monsters it's not much of a problem apart from the fat zombies which would have the same problem. The more realistic and classic sculpting is in line with FFG's other games like Descent and Gears of War :)