"Ye Olde School Miniatures" --Lord of Darkness posted (9/4/09)

[Hydra]

Hi Everyone:

In between projects at Hydra Miniatures I've been collecting and painting old school fantasy figures with the intention of using them for some sort of mass combat game.  I've created a blog to document my project on my new blog Ye Olde School Miniatures at http://yeoldeschoolminiatures.wordpress.com/

My first post shows painted figures are old Ral Partha goblin archers sculpted by Tom Meier in 1979.  Here they are:

I'll be posting more new painted figures in a few days. Enjoy!

Matt Beauchamp
Hydra Miniatures
www.hydraminiatures.com

[Operator5]

Awesome! I used to have a bunch of those along with some orcs, trolls, and a war machine.

Man I am so sad I sold them.

[Gluteus Maximus]

Those are great! I much prefer them to those abominations sold by The Evil Empire 

you've done a lovely job on the skin tones and the sculpts wouldn't be disgraced next to modern stuff.

More pics, please 

[The Dozing Dragon]

They are still comparable to most in today's market I reckon.

[Will Bailie]

Those goblins (along with the Ral Partha orcs) are still my favourite sculpts for fantasy.  Looking forward to seeing the rest!

[Bossco101]

Your painting is wonderful! 

Its so nice to see some classic and usually forgotten oldies being given time by a talented artist. They were superb sculpts which portrayed a realistic fantasy creature and your painting has really done them justice.

Seeing them has made my day!

Thanks

[fairoaks024]

great painting and excellent camera work, top marks.

I'm another fan of old school minis,

keep up the good work

regards

jim

[blackstone]

me too... I love those vintage d&d minis. I have nearly all of the Grenadier AD&D box sets. Lots of rare minifigs too  

d&d goblins should be orange though 

[Doomhippie]

Those are great! I much prefer them to those abominations sold by The Evil Empire 

Didn't Tom work for said Evil Empire in years gone by? Well, maybe there weren't evil at that time... 

[Gluteus Maximus]

Didn't Tom work for said Evil Empire in years gone by? Well, maybe there weren't evil at that time... 

As they've evolved they have constantly "improved"  their figures. I used to quite like their fantasy stuff, now I dislike most of the range. Maybe it was Tom's stuff I used to like years ago? 

[Bossco101]

Tom did indeed work for them but only for a short spell, 83-84 I think. They had a close relationship with Ral Partha in those days and so Ral minis used to appear in the citadel ranges. Generally it was bigger stuff like the dragons, though he did do a specific range of elves, and a boxed set of troglodytes and Lizardmen.

[Doc Twilight]

Absolutely stunning work on those Gobbos, Matt. I wish fantasy sculpts still had that kind of character.

-Doc

[Hydra]

Hi Guys:

I uploaded a painted example of a Ral Partha True Troll onto my Ye Olde School Miniatures blog http://yeoldeschoolminiatures.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/truly-awesome-true-troll/

If anyone is interested, the blog posting also lists the colors I used for the troll skin.

Matt Beauchamp
Hydra Miniatures
www.hydraminiatures.com

[manic _miner]

 Great to see these old miniatures with new paint jobs.

[Operator5]

I had that Troll I think, but I thought mine had a club.