Re: 1/72 Fantasy figures (Magic users)

[M.P.]

Fantastic , I especially like your rangers  .

[Little Odo]

Wonderful work on all of those figures - my eyes just got wider in appreciation the more I scrolled down the thread. 1/72nd seems to be a decent scale now - plenty of eye-candy on this forum shows what can be done with these versatile, and now numerous sets of, figures.

[102-year-old-man]

incredible painting!

Are you playing DnD with those little chaps?

[Philotep]

Hi MysteryMachine!

Thanks to the link you left on my blog, I could have a look at your 1/72 figures, and I love them! Great painting, great bases (a skill I should really improve myself), nice pictures (though a bit too dark sometimes, as already spotted) and excellent result! I particularly like your Dark Alliance barbarians

PS: I'm now a member of this forum thanks to you Some of the people here look familiar...

[tikitang]

Very nice work!

[Sunjester]

It's threads like this that make me wish I was just starting to collect fantasy figures now, because 1/72 plastics would make it a lot cheaper and still have some fantastic minis. Unfortunatly my 25/28mm collection dates back over 40 years so I would never catch up with the painting to start again now!

Mind you some 1/72 fit in quite nicely as monsters for the larger scale, Troll and Cyclops (Cyclopi?) still look OK to me, goblins as imps, orcs as small goblins and I recently picked up a box of anubis headed warriors that I will do something with at some point.

[MysteryMachine]

Thanks for all the kind words, everyone. Philotep, it is an honour to see you on these boards!

102-year-old-man, you were asking whether I had plans to play D&D with the collection. It was certainly an inspiration, and I'm trying to work up a set of miniatures to cover all the basic classes. Clerics have proven a bit of a challenge, but I have some ideas for conversions. Who knows? Maybe, eventually, I will even have enough of a selection to be able to run WFRP with minis for the encounters.

Otherwise, the plan is to try Song of Blades and Heroes, Rangers of Shadow Deep, Nightwatch and Sellswords and Spellslingers. Sunjester, I have a copy of your "Last Stand at Mistham" and it is driving my current interest in goblinoids, although they should also make a good first selection of baddies/mooks for Nightwatch.

In the meantime, I thought it is important for adventurers to start at the bottom, so clearly they will need to have some rats to stomp. These rodents are a selection of Alternative Armies (slightly miscast, and needed quite a lot of cleaning up/fixing whilst still remaining a bit wonky), Northstar (came with a boar) and Ral Partha (from RPE).

[DivisMal]

Those rats look pretty cool!
Over the last weeks, painting 15mm, I have been more than tempted to try a couple of 1/72 as humans. They would work pretty good with most of my monsters, orcs &c.

[blacksmith]

Those rats are lovely. I'd love to see them next to a 1/72 figure 

[MysteryMachine]

Those rats are lovely. I'd love to see them next to a 1/72 figure 

Your wish is my command, blacksmith!
Actually, this is a good idea in relation to 1/72 - I will try to remember to do this going forward.

From left to right, the first rat is one of the Alternative Armies models, the next is the larges of the Ral Partha rodents, then one of the Northstar models (which are larger than the others) and finally the two smallest Ral Partha rats on the same 1p coin base. Of the three sets, I think the Ral Partha rats are probably the most versatile.

http://www.ralparthaeurope.co.uk/shop/dsa-the-dark-eye-28mm-fantasy-c-30/creatures-17000-c-30_34/17025-pack-of-giant-rats-8-p-1021.html

[blacksmith]

Indeed, the Ral Partha are the most appropriate. Thank you very much for the picture, the rats look really good next to 1/72 men as giant rats.
That viking shield is very sexy 

[DivisMal]

That is a pretty cool scale shot. Those 1/72 humans do look pretty good. And they come through all periods and styles for relatively few bucks…

[Cat]

Those be great giant rats!

[MysteryMachine]

It's been a while since I've been able to post any new figures - an unfortunate arm injury earlier in the year resulted in a bit of a pause on the painting front. Still, the fracture is all healed up, and I've been able to finish a batch of twelve Battle Valor Orcians.

These guys are massive for the 15mm scale that they were created for, but fit in really well with 20mm / 1:72. I have included a comparison picture with a Dark Alliance Cimmerian and a Dark Alliance orc that should illustrate this.

Hopefully there will be much less of a gap before the posting of the next set of figures!

[blacksmith]

It's so good to see more works from you again. Your hand painted  shields are excellent and those Battle Valor Orcs fit quite well with 1/72.
BTW, this new post reminds me that I need those Ral Partha rats