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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Pil on May 17, 2012, 09:51:57 AM
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Hi adventurers, I've had the pleasure to paint up a number of muster troops and retained knights (and three barons) of the Firefight game by Alternative armies. I took lots of pics of individual models but I won't bore you with those and just give you the overview shots. I hope you like them!
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd516/arjenpilon/Pil-03_Firefight.jpg)
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd516/arjenpilon/mustertroops01.jpg)
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd516/arjenpilon/retainedknightsgroup04.jpg)
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd516/arjenpilon/retainedknightsgroup02.jpg)
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Lovely, saved for reference, I have a good few retained knights and have been collecting from e-bay etc for a future WOTR plan...one day ;D :D
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Love the colour schemes, great work all round. I keep meaning to buy a few Ion Age knights but other stuff always seems to distract me!
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Thanks! My client had a pretty simple briefing: red for the muster troops, green for the knights and the barons in yellow, white and blue. The rest was at my own discretion, I like how the colours turned out as well 8)
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Very nice indeed. The Ion Age line has always had appeal to me, even though I cannot name why. Maybe it's because I like the look of Sallet helmets... ::)
Lovely, saved for reference, I have a good few retained knights and have been collecting from e-bay etc for a future WOTR plan...one day ;D :D
Save your money and go directly to the source! :D
http://www.alternative-armies.com/Retained_Knights.htm (http://www.alternative-armies.com/Retained_Knights.htm)
They've been brought back some time last year I believe. I have one of the retained knights, which I got from a friend who had no use for it. We didn't even know what it was, but I painted it up anyway. I've been meaning to assemble a small squad some day, if it were only so he's not that lonely in the display cabinet ;)
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Very good.
Thank you for sharing.
Tony
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Very nice, the paintwork is very nice indeed!
Lovely, saved for reference, I have a good few retained knights and have been collecting from e-bay etc for a future WOTR plan...one day ;D :D
I have four of them, plus another four with a different suit... do you like them? =)
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Very nice, the paintwork is very nice indeed!
I have four of them, plus another four with a different suit... do you like them? =)
Yeah, I think the retro feel and as said the almost medieval armour makes a nice change I did a body count and have around 17 of them so far :D
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I still have a couple of packs of the muster troops sitting in my tin bin. I acquired them in my youth, sometime in the mid-90s, painted them atrociously, and later stripped them. You make me want to give them a try again ... lovely work. I like the realistically dull but still vibrant off-white on the helmets and shoulder pads.
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I used to have some of these miniatures.My son has a few now too.Also got some of the 10mm or 6mm one's I think some place.
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Thanks all! There aren't a lot of painted examples around of these models so it's always good to hear of other people who are going to paint them 8)
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Here's mine, if you're after more painted pics... :)
(http://www.fierylions.nl/Pictures/ForumPictures/K17Presentation700.jpg)
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Very cool, and the colour scheme contrasts nicely with the base, well painted! 8)
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Great paint jobs on those figures. :-*
The figures have a great old school feel to them.
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I disliked them back in the 90's for some reason. I think I bought a Shia Kahn Battlemaster with a gatling gun. Now I love them because they almost look like something Vaugn Bode or Richard Corben would have drawn in Heavy Metal/Metal Hurlant. They almost embody the 70's and early to mid 80's Sci-fi poster look. Pipes, vents, hoses, cables, nurnies, connectors, rivets, cowlings, bearings, plates, etc. are all nested tightly together everywhere and the troops have these weirdly expressive poses that you'd normally only see in cartoon illustrations. And it's not the old " holding a sword up and shouting YAAAAGHHHH! to Crom" pose either. It's more of a tired, vaguely paranoid, "slogging on to find more alien heads to crack so I can finally go home" look. The Quar have the same sort of look to them. The weight of the long war is on them and they don't have time or the energy to pose on no heap of beached skulls for some portrait painter. Those huge techno backpack reactor things they carry are just awesome. Loads of relief to them. Fun to paint I'l bet.
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I disliked them back in the 90's for some reason. I think I bought a Shia Kahn Battlemaster with a gatling gun. Now I love them because they almost look like something Vaugn Bode or Richard Corben would have drawn in Heavy Metal/Metal Hurlant. They almost embody the 70's and early to mid 80's Sci-fi poster look. Pipes, vents, hoses, cables, nurnies, connectors, rivets, cowlings, bearings, plates, etc. are all nested tightly together everywhere and the troops have these weirdly expressive poses that you'd normally only see in cartoon illustrations. And it's not the old " holding a sword up and shouting YAAAAGHHHH! to Crom" pose either. It's more of a tired, vaguely paranoid, "slogging on to find more alien heads to crack so I can finally go home" look. The Quar have the same sort of look to them. The weight of the long war is on them and they don't have time or the energy to pose on no heap of beached skulls for some portrait painter. Those huge techno backpack reactor things they carry are just awesome. Loads of relief to them. Fun to paint I'll bet.
This.
Slowly assembling my own forces.
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Great! I have some of them in my paint queue right now. Hopefully I will get them ready for gaming this summer.
I alway loved those miniatures, from the first time I saw them and I am very happy that the line is back.
I think I have about 30 of the knights and as soon as my economy allows me I will buy some of the muster.
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I disliked them back in the 90's for some reason. I think I bought a Shia Kahn Battlemaster with a gatling gun. Now I love them because they almost look like something Vaugn Bode or Richard Corben would have drawn in Heavy Metal/Metal Hurlant. They almost embody the 70's and early to mid 80's Sci-fi poster look. Pipes, vents, hoses, cables, nurnies, connectors, rivets, cowlings, bearings, plates, etc. are all nested tightly together everywhere and the troops have these weirdly expressive poses that you'd normally only see in cartoon illustrations. And it's not the old " holding a sword up and shouting YAAAAGHHHH! to Crom" pose either. It's more of a tired, vaguely paranoid, "slogging on to find more alien heads to crack so I can finally go home" look. The Quar have the same sort of look to them. The weight of the long war is on them and they don't have time or the energy to pose on no heap of beached skulls for some portrait painter. Those huge techno backpack reactor things they carry are just awesome. Loads of relief to them. Fun to paint I'l bet.
I couldnt have put it better myself but wish I had, very well written and emotes exactly how I see them :D
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Seriously nice stuff!
I just bought a bit from AA and their firefight line... Nox troopers and goblins though. Looking forward to painting them,.
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I agree with you, but your brushwork does an exemplary job highlighting all the old-school character embodied in those figs. Genuinely well done.
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Thanks! I really love paleomerus' description of these models as he really pinpoints what I like about these models too. What he said also goes for the first GW space maringe though, which these models also reminded me of:
(http://www.solegends.com/citle/citle1990/numbered/_MG_2150.jpg)
Painted by Phil Lewis:
http://www.solegends.com/citle/citle1990/numbered/le02SpaceMarine.htm
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I have started an Ion Age project up for this years Horisont convention.
My thread is in the workbench: HERE (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=42558.0)
For anyone interested.
There is not so much there yet, but I will hopefully update on a regular basis.
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This is the most eloquent thread about a line of I've ever read. I agree there is something much more characterful in them compared to the very standardized "I AM HEROIC" poses favored in most figure lines today.