What will I do with these?

[Spinal Tap]

So I foolishly clicked on a 'suggested for you' email from Ebay whilst a little tipsy, and ended up buying a box of 54mm miniatures as they were only £2.99.

Hopefully, I'll get some use out of them as donors in my bits box or, if they are OK quality, will paint a few up as giants/trolls/monsters.

I supposed a few could be mounted on plinths as statues.

Will post up the results on my workbench thread as (if) things develop.

Anyone ever used them and, if so, what for?



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[Daeothar]

Interestingly, I have bought two sets from this box a couple of years ago; the minotaurs and the centaurs. Those were of a suitable size to work as actual minotaurs and dragon ogres (with some conversion work). The plastic is of a good, hard quality too, but obviously not as crisp or easy to work with as actual polystyrene.

Like this set, they were dirt cheap (but not as cheap as yours ) and quite nice figures overall, especially for the price. I also bought a set of orks, which I intend to use as trolls eventually.

For the money spent, I'd not fret too much; even if you only use one as a terain piece, you'll already have recovered the cost of the entire box

[has.been]

I too purchased some boxes.
My plan is to use the Orcs as large bad beasties with my 28mm Fantasy.
Some of the others as damaged/weather-worn statues in some ruined temple/castle.

[Khusru2]

Good for skirmish games surely.

[Sunjester]

I have picked up the Orcs, Minotaurs and Barbarians in the past to use a ogres/trolls, giants and monsters and they work out quite well with 28mm fantasy,

[Spinal Tap]

Glad to know they're actually useful in 28mm; will post up what I do with them in my workbench thread.

[anevilgiraffe]

the chaps on ebay charging £10 for the same set are on a hiding to nothing...

[Sunjester]

Glad to know they're actually useful in 28mm; will post up what I do with them in my workbench thread.

Here is a photo of the orcs in that range in a 28mm Sellswords game, you can see they make great big beasties.

[Daeothar]

Yup; those are my future trolls

[Spinal Tap]

Well they've arrived and I'm quite impressed, the 4 minotaurs and 4 centaurs are perfect for my beastman force.

The paladins are a similar size and style to my small number of Custodes and would make a force for One Page Rules which we play at the club.

Not sure what to do with the dark warriors yet but sure they'll come in useful.

[Onebigriver]

Your post inspired me to look at these for a new primary school wargames club I'm starting. Picked up the Patrol set from the same seller and the Dark Attack box set from another seller. Gives me 38 figures of 8 different types and as it happens I've set a limit of 8 members for the club. I think these will make nice little warbands for SBH before we consider 28mm figures.

[Spinal Tap]

Your post inspired me to look at these for a new primary school wargames club I'm starting. Picked up the Patrol set from the same seller and the Dark Attack box set from another seller. Gives me 38 figures of 8 different types and as it happens I've set a limit of 8 members for the club. I think these will make nice little warbands for SBH before we consider 28mm figures.

Wonderful. Love this.

[voltan]

So I foolishly clicked on a 'suggested for you' email from Ebay whilst a little tipsy, and ended up buying a box of 54mm miniatures as they were only £2.99.

Do we class this as a Jollybob? 

[Luigi]

They look really nice!
They make a perfect trolls, ogres and similarly large brutes.
They could also  work as a particularly large orc warboss

[eilif]

These patrol look like they are probably the nice HIPS versions.  Good Score and great price for a box of giants, ogres and monsters!

I unfortunately bought the toy versions when I picked up my minotaurs a few years ago. Same sculpts, but in polyurethane army-men style plastic.  Still haven't decided whether to keep them or not.