Author Topic: Madame, would you kindly show me your Quatermain? (Read 5667 times)

Plynkes · « **on:** November 23, 2009, 11:22:57 AM »

There seems to have been quite a lot of talk about Allan Quatermain lately. He keeps cropping up in discussions (no doubt due to his appearance in some silly comic and film), and this has led me to feel it's time I had a Quatermain of my very own.

So what figures have you VSF/Alan Moore types been using to represent old Macumazahn? I've seen the Ironclad one (not too keen, but I'm liking the face). Are there other 'officially not' Allans out there?

Personally, I'm holding out for one that looks exactly like this...

...But I would dearly love to see other members' Quatermains, if it's not too much of an imposition.

argsilverson · « **Reply #1 on:** November 23, 2009, 11:29:48 AM »

I just know the Parroom Station mini:
http://www.brigadegames.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=BGAHSL&Category_Code=PRSVEP

he has his hat one.

Prof.Witchheimer · « **Reply #2 on:** November 23, 2009, 11:32:03 AM »

Hammers · « **Reply #3 on:** November 23, 2009, 12:29:41 PM »

Quote from: Prof.Witchheimer on November 23, 2009, 11:32:03 AM

That's the 32mm special ed. one, isn't it, Prof?

I very much like those undead baluchs. I shall one day, despite whatever I have said before about zombie inflation, weave them into a game.

Prof.Witchheimer · « **Reply #4 on:** November 23, 2009, 12:46:48 PM »

Quote from: Hammers on November 23, 2009, 12:29:41 PM

That's the 32mm special ed. one, isn't it, Prof?

yes, quite big that guy.

Malamute · « **Reply #5 on:** November 23, 2009, 12:51:10 PM »

Here's mine (the Parroom Station one) He's a pretty good copy of the front cover version from the LOEG comic, complete with Van Dyke beard as described in King Soloman's Mine.

I think this chap from Foundry has the look too.

Plynkes · « **Reply #6 on:** November 23, 2009, 01:00:28 PM »

Prof's Quatermain is the fellow who used to grace the mastehead of the old LAF website, isn't it? Lovely figure, beautifully painted. Pity he's so damn big.

Most of the depictions seem to say early 20th Century rather more than 1880s to me. Or am I bring an abominable fuss-pot again?

(He should be noticeably scrawny and gaunt, too).

Malamute · « **Reply #7 on:** November 23, 2009, 01:08:03 PM »

Quote from: Plynkes on November 23, 2009, 01:00:28 PM

(He should be noticeably scrawny and gaunt, too).

I think the Parroom version does a good job of making him look gaunt, trouble is nobody wants to see him as described in miniature.
He doesn't resemble Stewart Grainger to me or Sean Connery either, let alone Patrick Swaysee

Hammers · « **Reply #8 on:** November 23, 2009, 01:12:40 PM »

Ignoring Richard Chamberlains portrayal of him, I only know AQ by Alan Moores version from LEG. How much does that deviate from Haggard's novel?

Malamute · « **Reply #9 on:** November 23, 2009, 01:16:42 PM »

Quote from: Hammers on November 23, 2009, 01:12:40 PM

Ignoring Richard Chamberlains portrayal of him, I only know AQ by Alan Moores version from LEG. How much does that deviate from Haggard's novel?

Ihave read King Solomans Mines and also LOEG but not any of the other Quatermain stories So I can only comment on those.

The image in LOEG is pretty close, he is gaunt, skinny has the beard and cloe cropped hair. The drug addiction is a bit fanciful though

I think he is also older than the original stories.

Plynkes · « **Reply #10 on:** November 23, 2009, 01:46:24 PM »

Quote from: Hammers on November 23, 2009, 01:12:40 PM

I only know AQ by Alan Moores version from LEG. How much does that deviate from Haggard's novel?

The main (and rather important, I would have thought) deviation would be that Quatermain should be a bit dead by the time the adventures of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen occur. Don't know how he differs in the details. Never seen the comic.

Rider Haggard killed him off in the second book (1887 at the latest, as that's when it was written - I don't think RH set any of his books in the future). The millions of other stories he wrote later all had to be George Lucas-esque prequels because of this.

Gluteus Maximus · « **Reply #11 on:** November 23, 2009, 07:24:34 PM »

The main problem with the film version (and most of the figures) for me, is that they are too big and muscular. I'm sure he is described in King Solomon's Mines as being quite small and wiry. This is from memory, mind, which is not good at the best of times, so I'm probably wrong about this. Must read the book again!

The pic Plynkes posted looks much more how I'd imagine him, rather than the too large, but otherwise splendid Mr Connery and his Mini-Mes.

I'd love to see a more "realistic" version in miniature. Until then, I also have the Ironclad version.

Schweizer · « **Reply #12 on:** December 02, 2009, 04:45:30 PM »

Haggard based the Quatermain character pretty heavily on Frederick Selous, who in reality looked a lot like a more wiry Ian Holm, with really piercing blue eyes.

Tomsche · « **Reply #13 on:** December 02, 2009, 07:38:05 PM »

Mine is the Ironclad fella, though I must admit he looks more like the Connery portrayal imho, might be Mathilda`s fault

Yes, the name fault on the base is long corrected

The_Wisecrack · « **Reply #14 on:** December 02, 2009, 11:53:22 PM »

i started writing up rules for the LOEG in my pulp rule set, i will try to fig them up.

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