Minis for Chainmail Bikini and Broadsword Adventures

[cwchmc]

Since Howard has released the rough draft of Chainmail Bikini and I know Rich is getting Broadsword Adventures ready, I've been thinking about minis for these games. I have a few random figs that will work well but of course I will need more. :mrgreen:
So far i've been looking at Reaper, Darksword, Crunch Waffle. also I will take a look at Foundry Historicals for some usable figs. Does anyone have any other manufacturers that have good figures for this genre?

Edit: i should probably add that I plan to do mostly REH-esque games with these rules. So I'm mainly looking for humans and a few weird monster types. No ogres, trolls, elves, etc.

Chuck

[Operator5]

We'll have quite a few of our own released at the end of the year. All very Conan-esque. I may even do a boxed set version of Broadsword Adventures: Savage Tales of Fantasy with two small starter forces.

 

[cwchmc]

i remember seeing that with the announcement about the Shaolin Monks. Are there any pics of these figs available? I don't remember seeing them before. They were previously offered by Iron Mammoth?
The box set will be great. I hope it works out.

Chuck

[Howard Whitehouse]

Boxed sets. The man's got boxed sets --- (grumble grumble  :x )

Me, I have the discount 'everything's a dollar' box at the comic store ----  

Rich, I swear you'll be bigger than GW in ten years time. And you'll still be a great guy --

I'm usuing a pretty wide variety of stuff. A lot of Reaper, who are strong on barbarians of both genders, sorcerers who don't look like Gandalf impersonators, and some nice monsters. Em4 sell Mark Copplestone's splendid old Grenadier barbarians. Heresy have a few nice barbarians, and some terrific monsters.

Sword and Sorcery is essentially human-oriented, often in a universe where nations that have oddly different levels of technology live side by side. I especially like using bronze age historicals - especially things like Sea peoples, Mycenaeans and Libyans -  since they actually appear quite bizarre by most people's sense of what-to-wear.

[zbyshko]

as a preface, while Conan-esque or RHL-inspired, i get the impression - that is my mind's eye sees the games as a old serial or low-budget movie production - i.e. an iguana with plastic horns or a gecko with a fake sail fin for dragons and/or dinosaurs; Atlantean palace guards in Greco-Roman uniforms, etc.  if that is not the case, i apologize, but that is what influenced my reference for figures below.

and now...

how about selections of Black Orc Games' Hundred Kingdoms?  i say selection since some of them are..."off"  and some are "on": their Great Gor (huge Gorilla) i use for Kong/Mighty Joe  - though the sculptor did the huge ape for Reaper as well [edit Jason Wiebe].  but one of two of the Dino's and Insect "men" may work.  and a few of the other intelligent simians.  just an idea there.

i had also been looking at West Winds webpage and perusing the Lucifer Wars stuph - some Demons look interesting - crawled off a cover of a Conan novel sort of way.

and perhaps some of the Celtos stuph - whomever owns the rights to that this week.  i have a druid type from them i use as an Apothocary for a Norse Blood Bowl team - or for something other than Celtos anyway.

how many other folks buy fiigures for multiple uses - i mean for real and not just to convince the loving wife of the "value" of the purchase?

enjoy

ralph

[KeyanSark]

We'll have quite a few of our own released at the end of the year. All very Conan-esque. I may even do a boxed set version of Broadsword Adventures: Savage Tales of Fantasy with two small starter forces.

 

Rich... You are going to lead (pun, pun) me to bankrupcy...  

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Can I inform of that in our e-zine??

[Operator5]

Rich... You are going to lead (pun, pun) me to bankrupcy...  

 ::  ::

Can I inform of that in our e-zine??

--->My goal is to sominate the world by getting ALL it's money.  :mrgreen:

And absolutely you can post it to the e-zine. Figures won't be out until later in the year, but it's no secret that I have them.  

[WitchfinderGeneral]

If there is one kind of figures, you shouldn't have problems finding some, then it's ordinary "fantasy" humans.
Alone Ral Partha have probably produced more than you can ever paint!
And then Grenadier and Harlequin... and all the wonderfull small new companies like Hasslefree or Heresy...

[KeyanSark]

--->My goal is to sominate the world by getting ALL it's money.  :mrgreen:

So... You are the guy under the Jade Hood, aren't you??

[Phil Robinson]

Also try here

http://www.mirliton.it/index.php?cName=fantasy-2528mm-barbarians

and here

http://www.companionminiatures.com/prodtype.asp?PT_ID=137&strPageHistory=cat

[Yankeepedlar01]

Nice figures available from

http://www.orcsnest.com/miniaturespage.asp?maker=Orcs%20Nest%20Miniatures

and sculpted by someone I know very well!

David

[Howard Whitehouse]

The Mirliton and Companion examples that Phil gave are Copplestone's Grenadier barbarians, which EM4 also sell (although, alas, not all of them).
I think there may be some issues of ownership rights involved, but I don't know the details. Or, I could have got that part wrong.

I'd love some of the barbarians mounted on tigers but, alas, between a weak US dollar and the shipping costs, they tempt me but my wallet remains shut.

I've suggested to Mark C that he redo the barbarians as his own line, as he did with Future Wars, but he's indicated a reticence to revisit old work. Maybe we can all prod him along -- H

[Phil Robinson]

I've suggested to Mark C that he redo the barbarians as his own line, as he did with Future Wars, but he's indicated a reticence to revisit old work. Maybe we can all prod him along -- H

Yes this would be good, was a little disappointed to find that the superb Barbarian Queen was only a one off. Lets get prodding.