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Miniatures Adventure => Other Adventures => Topic started by: walktapus on October 21, 2006, 11:55:27 PM
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I have not seen anything about lost worlds. No fur clad minis ?
I have got a cave war project ongoing. I painted only one clan and a half yet.
The Copplestones :
(http://psilete.free.fr/xmedia/aventure/akita/akita5.jpg)
(http://psilete.free.fr/xmedia/aventure/akita/akita3.jpg)
and the Fenrylls
(http://psilete.free.fr/xmedia/aventure/akita/fenr/fenryll0.jpg)
And I have some Pulp, Eureka and Shadoforge clans to paint. (as usual more unpainted minis than painted).
See also http://psilete.free.fr/?/Aventure/Le-mythe-de-la-caverne
I have also put here a short summary of some movies. It's in french but the photos speak by themselves !
http://psilete.free.fr/?/Aventure/inspis-prehistoriques2
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Cool minis, I like the bears. I see a lot of these movies involve half naked girls - cool. What rules do you use? Or are your minis for display purposes?
TT.
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like the fenryll ones a lot, got them too some months ago
I have not seen anything about lost worlds. No fur clad minis ?
sure:
http://forum.backofbeyond.de/viewtopic.php?t=346
http://forum.backofbeyond.de/viewtopic.php?t=328
http://forum.backofbeyond.de/viewtopic.php?t=353
:-)
my cavemen:
http://www.witchhunter.net/gallery_cavemen.html
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I think you are a pretty good painter.
Thanks for the pictures and your webpage.
Björn
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yes all of your stuff are very cool .
grimm
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Cool minis, I like the bears. I see a lot of these movies involve half naked girls - cool. What rules do you use? Or are your minis for display purposes?
TT.
The Hammer studios movies were much about half naked girls saved from pterosaurs by heavily bearded grunting men :P But they are still worth watching ! I am sure they are the primary source of inspiration for Mark Copplestone's figures.
As for the rules, I don't know yet. I will certainly use a simplified and streamlined version Lord of the Rings/LotOW.
My goal is to set up a participative game. Participants would first choose a clan, each one having strengths and weaknesses. I take from Rosny Aine (excellent book Quest for Fire and sequels) that there were a great variety of coexisting clans with a diversity of shapes and sizes, which allows the use of every manufacturer's models on the same table. There could be different types of Cromagons, Neanderthals, Australopithecans, Amazons, even a group of half intelligent baboons, and possibly abominable snowmen types !
Then a goal would be randomly chosen for each clan : hunting, rapt women or children, steal a fire source, take control of a mammoth dead body or a fruit area, or a cavern. Wild animals would be added for variety, and their moves determined randomly (or maybe moved by kids if some players come with their children).
Communication regarding the game (including alliances and war plans) would be limited to grunts, gestures and a limited lexicon of words taken from the Hammer films (Akeeta = this way ; Nahot = dead, ...). Of course today language would be allowed for discussing the rules or talking to the game master !
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In fact I used them once in a dinosaur hunt using the Saurian Safari rules.
http://amdba.over-blog.com/categorie-648685.html
Miss Clanton, a member of the expedition exploring the dinosaurs' valley, had mysteriously disapeared during the night and the expedition sent to the rescue found here captive of a cavemen clan.
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I think LOTR of LOTW would work in well with this type of game. Good luck, it sounds like fun.
TT.
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Third prehistoric clan. These ones are a little less evolved. They are from Eureka.
http://psilete.free.fr/?/prehistoria/Eureka
(http://psilete.free.fr/xmedia/aventure/akita/eureka/eureka_cm0.jpg)
(http://psilete.free.fr/xmedia/aventure/akita/eureka/eureka_cm5.jpg)
(Sorry : the pictures are a bit blurred)
I wish they had some females. They will have to rapt them from other clans :wink:
Still have at least 5 other manufacturer's clans to paint...
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Savages! Lovely!
Still have at least 5 other manufacturer's clans to paint...
great idea to make the clans, I shan't forget that :mrgreen:
Pulp figures too?
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Have you checked out the Pulp Neanderthals? they are beauts
http://www.pulpfigures.com/cat.php?range=Lost%20Tribes%20and%20Lost%20Worlds&catalog=PLT&custID=1959321381163550545
also the Jeff valent ones
http://www.jeffvalentstudios.com/pnuke/index.php?module=PayPalCart&cid=8
and for a bit of fantasy - Trogs
http://www.esair.baueda.com/index.html
I put together some lists on the Cave_wars site for a bastardisation of Necromunda but you could easily convert them to LOTR :D
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I had forgotten about the Pulp figs, thanks for the link Lowtardog.
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Here is a great link for all things Prehistoric
http://www.stevepugh.net/VTT/?page_id=203
also for some inspiration check out Matakishis Settlement page on his site
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Yes, I have got the Pulp Neanderthalian of course, unpainted yet. I have also some Shadowforge girls, Amazon cavemen, and should receive soon (I hope) both HLBS clans. Plan to get the Steve Barber and Jeff Valent too (though the Jeff Valent range is still expanding, I think).
I also got some baboons from Obelisk at Crisis, and they should make a clan. In Quest for Fire (the best prehistoric pulp book ever imho) there is a clan of "blue men" who turn out to be gorillas.
I also got also some abominable snowmen from Pulp. Since they are a very ancient species of wise big men (see the Hammer studios film) they were already around at prehistoric times :mrgreen:
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Painted my first 10 Pulp Neanderthalians. These are wonderful minis ! The next ten should not be long.
(http://psilete.free.fr/xmedia/aventure/akita/pulp/pulp2.jpg)
More on http://psilete.free.fr/?/prehistoria/Clan-Pulp
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very cool ,I must also have these figures :P
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the good old Bob Mucrh ones, nice to see them painted, mine aren't :oops:
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The next ten Pulp Neanderthalians.
(http://psilete.free.fr/xmedia/aventure/akita/pulp/pulp4.jpg)
(http://psilete.free.fr/xmedia/aventure/akita/pulp/pulp5.jpg)
(http://psilete.free.fr/xmedia/aventure/akita/pulp/pulp6.jpg)
This adds yet another clan to my collection :)
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nice :love: how manny clans do you have now ?
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very nice, I will had this as a link to the Cave_wars group if I may
another Neanderthal figure range is the Jeff Valent oes, a bit more cartoon like in sculpts and poses but nice :)
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nice how manny clans do you have now ?
Finished :
Copplestone
Eureka
Pulp x2
a few Fenryll
Primed :
HLBS
Shadowforge (amazon clan)
To come after :
HLBS homo erectus
Baueda Trogs (following Lowtardog's suggestion) : I should receive them soon
Obelisk baboons :)
+ a few Reaper, Amazon, Pulp and Copplestone yetis
another Neanderthal figure range is the Jeff Valent ones, a bit more cartoon like in sculpts and poses but nice
I would love to get them. I sent an enquiry for the special offer but got no response yet.
Should consider Steve Barber and Maidenhead too.
very nice, I will had this as a link to the Cave_wars group if I may
Of course you may. I am a long time sleeping member of this group myself. :lipps:
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what are HLBS homo erectus and Baueda Trogs ?
Can you post a picture ?
:?:
Grimm
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The Honourable Lead Boiler Suit Company (http://www.hlbs.co.uk/type.php?id=44)
Baueda Trogs (http://www.esair.baueda.com/index.html)
:)
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I picked them Valent minis up last year when they had an offer on. I think he has some problems with the site if I remember from a post on TMP
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The prehistoric clans project progresses slowly but it does progress !
Here is the Shadowforge clan, only female.
(http://psilete.free.fr/xmedia/aventure/akita/shado/clan-shado.jpg)
(http://psilete.free.fr/xmedia/aventure/akita/shado/shado2.jpg)
More on http://psilete.free.fr/?/prehistoria/Clan-Shadowforge
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Very nice,
but risky in the testosterone rich environment of prehistory :lol:
have you seen the new VCopplstone figures?
http://www.frothersunite.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10166
more lead for the pile :oops:
and I havent seen his coppers yet :D
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diden´t know that Shadowforge figures can look good :love: nice work :)
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New clan. These are from HLBS. Very hairy and furry.
(http://psilete.free.fr/xmedia/aventure/akita/hlbs/hlbs1.jpg)
(http://psilete.free.fr/xmedia/aventure/akita/hlbs/hlbs2.jpg)
(http://psilete.free.fr/xmedia/aventure/akita/hlbs/hlbs3.jpg)
http://psilete.free.fr/?/prehistoria/Clan-HLBS
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We ran a participation game several years ago using a heavily modified set of rules called "Tusk". Players were only allowed to communicate by sign language.
All players had the same basic objective, they had a hunting party and needed to fetch meat (any kind, including human) back to their camp (off table, they just had to get back to the starting position). Not all players were from different tribes (I seem to remember running the game where all were from the same tribe but competing to see who would become the new chief).
There was a limited amount of large scenery on the table at the start, tall trees, big hills, a lake in the middle of the table, etc. plus a mammoth (near the lake).
At the start of each turn the players rolled for initiative, lowest roll was given an event card, and had to go last. Any tied roll also got an event card.
Event cards varied but gave a hint about what was about to happen - and included some false clues, all were deliberately vague.
Cards included things like "Ground is very stony" (enterprising players picked up flints to use as weapons) or "Large skeleton" (again a chance to pick up useful tools), "Grass is very dry" (two of these cards and a small fire breaks out, but quickly spreads), "Animal tracks ahead of you" (just to be mean the tracks were identified by the Latin names of the animal, might not be a problem on the continent, but causes confusion & panic for UK players who don't know if they are following a rabbit or a wolf).
False alarm cards included birds suddenly flying out behind you, strange noises, fallen trees (rotten & no use), ant hills, etc. Hazards included a tar pit, holes in the ground (traps left by another tribe), wild animals (wolves, tigers, rhino, crocodile, snakes, hornets, boars, mammoths), lightning, but the main problem for most players was paranoia. Every game saw them convinced they were about to be eaten (or destroyed by a volcano).
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Forgot to say that quite a few of the false alarm cards actually deployed more terrain, eg long grass, bushes, rocky outcrops, swampy ground, so the players had to explore their way across table with some care, until fire broke out and then they stampeded as fast as the animals.
Sorry to look as though I'm hijacking the thread.
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Sorry to look as though I'm hijacking the thread.
I love what you wrote. I wil lcertainly remember it for my future games. First I want to finish my project. Still two clans and some fauna to paint.
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funny models :) are they 28mm?
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Thank you. Glad to be of some assistance.
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funny models Smile are they 28mm?
They lie on the taller side of 28mm.
From left to right : Copplestone, HLBS, Pulp, Eureka, Shadowforge.
(http://walktapus.free.fr/div/cavemen_comparison.jpg)
How do you call a specialist who studies ancient mankind ? I think I am becoming one :mrgreen: