Looking for very cheap humans similar to the em4 plastic aesthetic...

[Ozreth]

Looking to add some humans to an orc army for Oathmark. The orcs cost 30 cents a pop and I'm painting these up extremely quickly, definitely quantity over quality for this project.

https://em4miniatures.com/en-us/collections/plastic-fantasy-miniatures

Bandit/Thief/Pirate/Barbarian types preferred.

Thanks in advance!

[Luigi]

These might be painfully generic but they are indeed pretty cheap.

[lord marcus]

If you can stomach historicals and working on them to do conversions, I can get you most historical ranges at a discount. Not what I sell the EM4 plastics at, but decent cost per mini

[Ozreth]

These might be painfully generic but they are indeed pretty cheap.

Oof. I realized a little after posting this that the em4 plastics are probably in a rather sweet spot and it would be a tall order to find something comparable. They have enough character to be charming and have a cohesive aesthetic, and one that I like. The low cost is allowing me to paint these very quickly with little regard for imperfections as I hastily put an army together to try out Oathmark with a friend. I’m doing orcs and will throw some humans into the mix.

The above cross my threshold of generic, but thank you for the link and effort!

[Hobgoblin]

It might be stretching your definition of 'barbarian', but the Norman infantry from Conquest Games are pretty cheap (not quite EM4 levels, but not far away). Here in the UK, you can get 44 of them for £20, or even £18 from some online sellers.

The sprue shows you what you get (a mix of spearmen and axemen with a sword option):



Conquest also does generic medieval archers (slightly more expensive at 28 for around £20):



The Gripping Beast Viking Hirdmen arepretty cheap too (44 for £21), and they're suitably barbaric.

Gripping Beast's Anglo-Saxon Thegns and Dark Age Warriors offer a bit of variation here at a similar price point.

[Cubs]

Hat Miniatures do some 28mm El Cid single pose mins. They're not always easy to get hold of, but a quick look at eBay found someone selling 32 mins for £13.95.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185904758576?epid=648392129&hash=item2b48c97f30:g:v6wAAOSwa~BYeLAN&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwEr40v4BLtotF6oiw%2FdkHOQ9Fe0N3lHaCne7KQKaHFNtnRsSza3hZESi3dlYruPz9jd%2BsMa96dSosedS9y4NEcf%2B0qZWDszqTaZEL9LMLt%2BsOtZY6M2rVnGfFlItvuYKvp3goOvE%2BRbjS9sTiy%2Fopyywx4y1%2FGBIRPhV7bzfsIPq6lZMdYiz3iRTcyttwX8dHHgCnqqU8raRlmj8ZWmGaTDO%2B2Rw%2B%2FAoqIEwwSQa3OryDO%2Bo1pUwVfKRRb3TnM%2B7wA%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR6LciZq7Yg

This is what they look like -
http://hat.com/Curr28/Bx28005ANH/Bx28005ANHa.html

[GuyD]

Tehnolog's Castlecraft line has a few humans, including barbarians. And they should be pretty cheap.

[lord marcus]

Tehnolog's Castlecraft line has a few humans, including barbarians. And they should be pretty cheap.

Those are going to be huge for his purposes though

[GuyD]

Those are going to be huge for his purposes though

CastleCraft is 28mm. Their dwarfs line up quite well with em4 ones.

[Luigi]

how/where do you get them?
I'd love to get my hands on some.

[lord marcus]

CastleCraft is 28mm. Their dwarfs line up quite well with em4 ones.

That's news to me. Any humanoids I've ever gotten from technolog have been ogre sized

[GuyD]

how/where do you get them?
I'd love to get my hands on some.

https://souldark.ru/category/tehnolog-fantasy-battles/

Make sure to check the size comparison photos first. Some of the Castlecraft minis are actually 1/72. Also the Russian version of the site (https://tehnolog.souldark.ru/category/castlecraft/) has a way wider selection of minis so you might want to email them and ask if the stuff from there is available as well.

[Ozreth]

Tehnolog's Castlecraft line has a few humans, including barbarians. And they should be pretty cheap.

These might just do it, and thank you! And thanks to everyone else who offered assistance.