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Offline ErikB

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Which are your all-time favorite individual minis?
« on: September 27, 2017, 07:53:26 PM »
Which are your all-time favorite individual minis?

I was thinking about this (during a meeting) and came up with this list to start with.  Strangely, I am not into cowboys, pirates, or samurai, but these are some fantastic individual character minis that somehow speak to me artistically.

• Black Scorpion Undead Sailor 2 swords, I love this mini, you can almost hear an unearthly howl coming from him:


• Black Scorpion Jack a Roe Jones:


• ‎Black Scorpion Two Sword Sailor


• ‎Black Scorpion Admiral Dylan Lloyd


• ‎Black Scorpion women pirate characters:



• Black Scorpion Billy the Kid - this little punk has so much attitude that I want to slap him myself:


• ‎Kensei two sword duelist samurai - very simple but somehow just right for a character:


• Kensei mounted samurai general - he looks like he is actually moving to me:


• ‎Black Scorpion Townsfolk 1 Cowboy duelist with the big hat and long jacket blowing in the wind, front row, camera right


• ‎Flames of War Oberst Rettemeier in PzKfw III - not a crisp model but I like their selection of stuff on the vehicle and the position of the Oberst:


• ‎Gripping Beast mounted Alexander Nevsky:


• ‎Undead Samurai from Darkhammer (to me, one of the best minis ever created):


• ‎Obelisk Undead Baluchis (okay, not an individual but a set):


• Footsore's King Arthur mounted:


• ‎Special Limited Edition Viking - I finally found a link!  There were 500 of these guys released with the Age of Ravens book.


Does ANYONE know where I can find one?  :-)

How about the rest of you?

What are your favorite individual minis?

Links appreciated (I'll come back and add them after the next few meetings....)
« Last Edit: September 28, 2017, 05:07:41 PM by ErikB »

Offline whiskey priest

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Re: Which are your all-time favorite individual minis?
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2017, 08:01:51 PM »
Hrothyog



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Re: Which are your all-time favorite individual minis?
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2017, 08:48:48 PM »
Hrothyog is a very special min. GW did some great 'stood with attitude' guys in the 80's. Being an orc collector back then, I loved the orcy versions along a similar theme.

But this one is my all time fave, for sentimental reasons - Ral Partha's 'Giant on War Elephant' (it has been labelled under various titles along the same lines).

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Offline AndrewBeasley

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Re: Which are your all-time favorite individual minis?
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2017, 09:51:16 PM »
For happy memories I would go back to the pig faced orcs from minfigs (now back in production):



Followed by any of the Valley of the Four Winds and old old LOTR lines.

Now I'm leaning towards the GW Skaven in fantasy and Genestealer Cults in SciFi but there are so many many figures that I drool over :-*

To be honest about it, I think my fave model is the last I have seen that I like :D ;D :D

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Re: Which are your all-time favorite individual minis?
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2017, 10:15:26 PM »

The old citadel balrog. I managed to get hold of one a while ago and it's still waiting to be finished. The one I got is pretty beat up, most of the detail in the face has been rubbed away.



And more recently...this little guy is just great.

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Offline Elbows

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Re: Which are your all-time favorite individual minis?
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2017, 10:19:42 PM »
One of my all-time favourite miniatures is the Don Quixote-esque "Freelancer Knight" from the Mordheim range --- sold in a blister on foot and mounted.  I mentioned this, and guess what my best friend gave me for my birthday!? (long out-of-print so this wasn't easy or cheap I'd imagine).

I'm almost afraid to open him and try to paint him.



I will say that on the whole I'm a sucker for older Jes Goodwin metal minis from the 40K range, and I'm a big Tre Manor whore (would be doubly so if his basic ranges weren't too small to be compatible with everything else I own).

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Offline ErikB

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Re: Which are your all-time favorite individual minis?
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2017, 03:58:21 PM »
I love that fish-knight model, too.  Wish I could find another one.  I have been collecting "old" Mordheim minis recently.

One more favorite that I should have mentioned is this cro-magnon from Lucid Eye (Warlord):


Lots of character.  He resembles an old wrestling coach of mine from high school....

Offline ErikB

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Re: Which are your all-time favorite individual minis?
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2017, 03:59:05 PM »




For you, Hrothyog:

Offline Cubs

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Re: Which are your all-time favorite individual minis?
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2017, 04:15:58 PM »
Actually, now I think of it, this special edition Para by Paul Hicks must be my favourite historical model.


Offline FramFramson

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Re: Which are your all-time favorite individual minis?
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2017, 06:08:27 PM »
Hm... let's do this kinda-sorta-chronologically I guess?

The first minis I ever fell in love with was the GW Games Day Elf Hero and the same-era Shadow Warriors:





A classic Mage Knight dragon Sorcerer (I have since touched up the paint on this one a bit but can't find a good photo)



There was this Tre Manor redbox figure whose name escapes me at the moment



This Reaper mini



This CMON limited edition figure (sadly, a charity figure issued in memoriam of a very little girl)



Another CMON figure



Another vote for Hrothyogg. If I were doing these in order of favourites, he'd be near the top for sure.



Then I fell massively in love with Sergio at Tercio Creativo's sculpting, my favourite by far being William, the English pistol duellist (I have yet to assemble or paint my Tercio stuff, since Fantasy has taken a backseat to pulp the last couple years)



Andrew Rae has produced more than a few figures I love, but so far my favourite are probably his Corto Maltese



and his Red Queen





Another Tre Manor red box figure



Antediluvian's Shug McClure



And both of these strange buggers ;)



Oddly enough, I'm also a huge fan of Mark Copplestone's sculpting, but couldn't think of a single individual mini for this list. Maybe this Soviet Officer? Always loved his attitude and stance



Or this random gunman



Probably some other figures I'm forgetting among the ones I haven't painted, but that'll do, I think!


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Re: Which are your all-time favorite individual minis?
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2017, 06:11:41 PM »


Luna from hasslefree was one of the miniatures that got me back into painting during uni. I saw the mini and loved it, it's such a delicate, characterful sculpt.

I bought one ,was afraid to start on it and then lost it during my move from uni halls to my house, so i need to buy a new one.

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Re: Which are your all-time favorite individual minis?
« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2017, 06:18:40 PM »
So many to choose from...

Demonworld 15mm - perfect sculpts and a joy to paint.


Offline ErikB

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Re: Which are your all-time favorite individual minis?
« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2017, 07:05:00 PM »
Oddly enough, I'm also a huge fan of Mark Copplestone's sculpting, but couldn't think of a single individual mini for this list.
Me too.  He's one of my favorites.  I could not think of a single mini, though. 

I find that he does fantastic sets that look good together.  I think his flavor of genius is making a theme as opposed to an individual sculpt, if that makes sense.

Offline FramFramson

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Re: Which are your all-time favorite individual minis?
« Reply #13 on: September 28, 2017, 08:08:07 PM »
One thing I love beyond just how Mark's figures look is that his sculpts are probably the easiest sculpts to paint in the industry.

Offline ErikB

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Re: Which are your all-time favorite individual minis?
« Reply #14 on: September 28, 2017, 08:56:44 PM »
That's my 2nd favorite aspect of his minis.

The 1st is the amount of character and the theme he packs in there.

 

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