Round 1 - The first to land vs. Pig tickling

[Overlord]

[Ray Rivers]

Those are great minis, Doc!

Surprised I haven't added them to my VSF collection. Maybe I should.

[Elk101]

Great figures Dr M. Good job on those bases too Black Crane.

[Andym]

That's a mental scene Doc!

[Stu]

First time I've seen them anywhere than the Eureka site, and now I'm thinking I need  a unit of them.

[mikedemana]

Pig tickling? 

Oh, so happy one of my favorite painters of all time is in this season's LPL...! 

Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com
http://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/

[Hammers]

I have seen the minis but never seen a full game lineup of Pig Tickling before. They look great. Love the wackiness.

[Moriarty]

Pig Tickling won it for me - but I'm a steampunk fan :-)

[Hammers]

I don't quite recognize the two wallahs in the background? Who makes them?

[Dr Mathias]

Thanks all- I've had them for years, if not for the LPL 'British' theme they'd still be bare metal.

I don't quite recognize the two wallahs in the background? Who makes them?

There are two versions of Pig Tickler miniatures (two different referees, stokers, different lancer types, I think one version of pig had separate legs). Sculpting style is pretty different on the two versions. When I was inquiring about buying through Eureka USA, I seem to recall that they had some old versions on hand so I asked if I could get the old stokers along with the new ones (I mean, why not?). I always assumed the ones in back are the new versions, but I may be wrong because the USA and AU websites show the closer two. It's been a long time since I bought them

EDIT: Looks like I still have the emails I sent to Eureka. I bought them from the AU site in 2012. When they arrived the set was different sculpts from the website pictures (I think they still haven't updated the photos). I asked about it because I needed a couple more lancers and they offered to send me the old versions of the minis if they had them, since that was what I was expecting. Long story short I wanted a few other things too and since I wasn't really griping about the switch anyway I bought the old versions along with some other stuff. It's a funny shopping list (includes "Hussar girls pillow fighting"  ).

[Hammers]

includes "Hussar girls pillow fighting"

Phwoaaar! I want to see *them* in the LPL!

I did not recognize the ref either. Now I know why.

[TheBlackCrane]

Whilst admittedly I've taken a shellacking here - entirely justified, no arguments there!  - I should take the opportunity to mention that the Blue Moon Boxer Rebellion range, of which mine here are Royal Marines - are really, really, nice figures, lovely to paint.

In case anyone was on the fence about getting any, I probably haven't done them justice, but they are well worth it. I shall be acquiring more once the lead pile is done.


Stands nothing on the gorgeous painting of my competitor here though - terrific job, one of the reasons why I enter is to get that sort of inspiration to improve my painting.

[Dr Mathias]

I should take the opportunity to mention that the Blue Moon Boxer Rebellion range, of which mine here are Royal Marines - are really, really, nice figures, lovely to paint.

I was wondering what manufacturers those were from! Nice terrain too, I could use some rough irregular escarpment type stuff like that.

[TheBlackCrane]

The Terrain bits are from Red Dragon Gaming

http://www.reddragongaming.co.uk/

Really good pieces - those in this photo I painted myself, but I've got some others pre-painted from them which are great, lovely space fillers on the table (I'm not on commission from Red Dragon or Blue Moon!  )

[Mancha]

Dr. Matthias: I swear, you and I have the same preferences in miniatures!