Favorite Minotaur miniatures?

[Cait Sidhe]

I think the Zealot minotaurs are still the best looking i've come across. You can also get the STLs through Bestiarum if you have a 3D printer.

[beefcake]

I echo the above. I've got a bunch of the Zealot Minis, amazing sculpts and a wide variety to choose from. Might look for that Matriarch I've been wanting to add to my collection.

[Hobgoblin]

The Mirliton (ex Grenadier) minotaurs are rather nice - and there are a lot of them (these are just two of the sets):




As an aside, it's rather odd that most minotaur miniatures are shown with hooves (not a feature of the original Asterion).




I think the last minotaur miniatures I saw with feet were from Citadel in the 80s. I'd like to see more!

[Hobgoblin]

This shows how Citadel minotaurs were largely footed in 1985 and much more heavily hooved by 1988!

[Battle Brush Sigur]

Oh, I love a good minotaur. Heresy, Reaper (well, certain ones), Mirliton will do nicely, thank you. For monsters, one of my go-to adresses is Mierce Miniatures, but I'm not a fan of the up-armoured minotaur and the big axe with the tiny thin handle.

Scibor offer a pretty impressive set of three minotaurs (at a pretty impressive price, granted).

[tikitang]

I like the Warmonger Miniatures "Beastmen" range:

[Battle Brush Sigur]

Oh, those look nice.


Just because I happened across it and it reminded me of this thread - meet Ribeye, the undead minotaur, by Fenris Games:

[tikitang]

I think the last minotaur miniatures I saw with feet were from Citadel in the 80s. I'd like to see more!

Have you seen Foundry's Minoan Minotaurs?



As well as being significantly closer to the Classical look (even going as far as the double-headed Minoan axe), these are, I understand (I've never seen them in person), man-sized, rather than the monstrous giants that the contemporary fantasy Minotaur has become.

[Hobgoblin]

Aha - I hadn't! Good for them. They're a little coy around the nether regions for the full vase-painting effect, but they're refreshing nonetheless.

Oddly enough, I have some of the really old Citadel minotaurs (from the Fiend Factory range) on the painting table at the moment. They're also the size of a (large and burly) man, so are going in with the broos and other assorted beastmen on 25mm bases.

I recently read Madeline Miller's Circe, which has a memorable description of the minotaur's birth.

[tikitang]

I recently read Madeline Miller's Circe, which has a memorable description of the minotaur's birth.

I bet that's rather gruesome! I'll have to check that out. I just heard that HBO are turning it into a TV series too!

By the way, those Minoan Minotaurs are not my absolute favourite (that's still probably the Warmonger ones I posted above), though I am somewhat nostalgic about them as they were featured heavily (photographically) in Jake Thornton's Tribes of Legends rulebook, still sold through Casting Room Miniatures, which was one of the first wargaming rulesets I ever bought, though never actually played.

[snitcythedog]

This one is still my all time favorite.  Old AD&D licensed to Citadel from the 80s. 

It is one of the few real old minis that I have kept. 

[Bearwoodman]

Wow those Zealot Minotaurs are impressive! Normally I prefer my humanoid figures to be less steroidal but those are properly intimidating (to paint as well as to fight, I imagine, given their size and detail). One thing is for sure, a single bloke on his own wouldn't last 30 seconds against one of those monsters, even if he had brought a ball of string.

[Elbows]

My favourite is easily the one from Mythic's game about Ancient Greece (not sure what the game was actually called!).  It was a big board game based on the Conan game they'd previously released I believe.

I'm very picky about Minotaurs and I wanted a far more simple one.  This one is dead simple and good looking (despite appearing he's having a bit of a wank).

I struggled to find a modern Minotaur without tons of GW-esque armour, weapons, etc.  This looks like a Minotaur that lives in a maze or a deep dungeon.

[beefcake]

(despite appearing he's having a bit of a wank).

Can't unsee that now,

[tikitang]

Well, this thread has pushed me to buy a minotaur I've had my eye on now for a while:



This is from the old Harlequin Miniatures range (late 90s era).

Found this for £15 at https://www.spiritgames.co.uk -- the last one they had in stock. Considering the price the same model is going for on eBay, I think I got myself a bargain.

This is probably my favourite minotaur other than those Warmonger ones I mentioned earlier.