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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: katie on July 23, 2014, 08:30:39 PM
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So I'm currently painting the box set... and I was wondering -- who are the halflings supposed to be? The name "Boche" suggests the German tribes, but I also get the impression in various places that they're supposed to be English hooligans...
Also; Does anyone know what the pack consist is of the figures being sold by Caliver? The pictures appear to show a lot of variants (eg; there seem to be 8 poses Roman orcs, but there are only 4 in the base set). Are they a random pick of the available poses?
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I have always imagined the Boche as a cross between ancient Germanic Celts and skin-head football hooligans.
I think anything else might be a little too stereotypical!
I have tried seeing the packs on the Caliver site, but was not able to get an image. Sorry
You are better off going to the Minifigs site - they have images.
http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/Catalogue.aspx?ScaleID=19&CategoryID=56&SubCategoryID=287
I hope that this helps
Tony
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Ah, it was those images I was looking at....
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OK. Then in that case the Orc Legionaries are different versions of the same four models, painted differently some with shields and some without, some with spears and some with swords - simple conversions.
The Halflings are the same - just different versions of the base Boche.
Cut away the spears or swords and you have most of these. Add shields ad you have a whole posse of variation.
There was plans for some more archers, but I'm not sure we will ever see them.
I hope that this helps.
Tony
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Threadomancy!!
OK, So I ordered a bunch of the figures. And from http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/images/catalogue/PAX03.jpg (http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/images/catalogue/PAX03.jpg) I got #2 (x2), #6 (x2) and #8 (x2). There were also two figures with pila -- #9 (which I also got in the base set) and also #5!!.
Which I suspect means there are actually more than just the four poses. #4 and #7 are clearly repeats of #1. But I think #1 and #3 will turn out to be available as original metals as well... There's definitely 5 different poses out of that row so I would think the other two are extant as well.
Even more of a surprise are the Boche. I ordered 4 packs of the 5 figure warband, which I suspected would be a random pick from the figures in http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/images/catalogue/PAX14.jpg (http://www.miniaturefigurines.co.uk/images/catalogue/PAX14.jpg) which includes figures from the basic box and some others... and so they seem to be. But some of them are open-handed and they come with weapons sprues!! There's a bundle of swords, spears and axes to glue on to get more variety. And I have a suspicion that the chap at the far right in green trousers has the possibility of a fairly easy conversion to be an archer.
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Yup I have the orcs, there are in the 24 I have excluding 2 charactors, 7 variants
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This is an image of the ful box set;
(http://theminiaturespage.com/news/pics/2013/jan/1308549881b.jpg)
It might help.
Tony
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I really should get around to painting them.....
Tony