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Title: Rider of Rohan - old school style.........
Post by: The Dozing Dragon on July 10, 2012, 04:39:08 PM
Dragontooth from the 70s......

(http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/15112422/sn/1877194188/name/DSC00180.jpg)

(http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/15112422/sn/528806716/name/DSC00181.jpg)
Title: Re: Rider of Rohan - old school style.........
Post by: Quendil on July 10, 2012, 05:57:59 PM
Love it  :D
Title: Re: Rider of Rohan - old school style.........
Post by: Heldrak on July 10, 2012, 05:58:19 PM
Chunky!  lol
Title: Re: Rider of Rohan - old school style.........
Post by: clam on July 10, 2012, 09:41:39 PM
Never seen that one before - but beautiful nonetheless :D

Who's Dragontooth by the way? Don't really ring any bells :)
Title: Re: Rider of Rohan - old school style.........
Post by: Commander Vyper on July 10, 2012, 10:35:16 PM
Unfortunately lost in that base gravel mate. Much too big and unpainted it detracts from the piece and removes the suspension of disbelief, (ie the gravel looks out of scale).

Nice old mini though, (gandalf with pigtails), just needs a base rethink ;)

Cheers
Title: Re: Rider of Rohan - old school style.........
Post by: The Dozing Dragon on July 10, 2012, 11:00:00 PM
Unfortunately lost in that base gravel mate. Much too big and unpainted it detracts from the piece and removes the suspension of disbelief, (ie the gravel looks out of scale)

On that base because it is a one off - if I had more it would be a 'normal' cavalry base but I haven't seen another one of these  :(  I like the base but appreciate the c&c.
Title: Re: Rider of Rohan - old school style.........
Post by: Commander Vyper on July 12, 2012, 06:27:07 PM
No issue with base size mate, just the size of the gravel and the fact its unpainted. Also, be one sore set of pony hooves walking over that ;).

Title: Re: Rider of Rohan - old school style.........
Post by: The Dozing Dragon on July 12, 2012, 10:16:33 PM
No issue with base size mate, just the size of the gravel and the fact its unpainted. Also, be one sore set of pony hooves walking over that ;).



 :D Good point, I will be 'revisiting' the base - maybe washes etc? 
Title: Re: Rider of Rohan - old school style.........
Post by: Andrew May on July 13, 2012, 11:17:11 PM
Thanks for posting DD. It's really inspiring looking at these old pieces, although this one in particular I think is a little conservative there were some really "far out" ideas back then, I'd love to remake a few of the bigger/madder sculpts from Dragon tooth, archive, Etc.
Title: Re: Rider of Rohan - old school style.........
Post by: Andrew May on July 15, 2012, 06:13:30 PM
Thinking about it DD, who owns the rights to these ancient minis?
Title: Re: Rider of Rohan - old school style.........
Post by: The Dozing Dragon on July 15, 2012, 07:26:02 PM
Tom Loback ran Dragontooth and sculpted many of the miniatures - I think everything sticks with him but from all counts he is not interested in re-releasing things. Steven Tofano did a number of pieces for him and some have been re-released by Perth Pewter.
Title: Re: Rider of Rohan - old school style.........
Post by: Andrew May on July 15, 2012, 08:47:34 PM
Thanks, if he's not interested in rereleasing them then it'd be interesting if somehow he'd give rights to resculpt them as "modern standard" minis.

....I'll put on my mile long maybe to do one day list!
Title: Re: Rider of Rohan - old school style.........
Post by: CyberAlien312 on July 29, 2012, 06:00:04 PM
To be honest, the sculpt isn't that good, but the painting and the atmosphere of the figure make it look great!