New Goodies to Play with....

[gauntman]

I was purusing Web Pages wondering how to spend my monthly miniature allowance when I discovered new figures had been added to the Nightmares line (A recently revived line of old Grenadier Cthulhu/Horror figs).

Thought you'd all like to check them out...

http://www.mirliton.it/index.php?page=5&sort=1a&cName=nightmares-28mm




















There are more...with a few old D&D monsters as well, ghosts, strange hounds and unknown winged things.

I have a more than a few mini from these revived range and have been needing an excuse to make a new order...

[Dolmot]

Ooh, more guys from the adventurers box too! No more desperate bidding and frustration on eBay.

[gauntman]

I kinda feel bad for the folks who paid big bucks for the antique originals.

[jnr]

When I bought mine many years ago in the UK they were cheap at a guess I think £2 a packets so that be around $5 then, I havent got the zombies in the picture but have the rest, some I will be repainting up for Strange Aion.

[chicklewis]

Nice to see those old friends available again. 

The policeman with dwarvish legs and the beautiful pump shotgun was the trigger which started my entire collection of CoC useful-figures.  I had a collection of western figures for use in shootout games, and saw that shotgun-armed cop and decided to add him to my western figures, not because he fit, but just because I liked him.  Then I needed more figures to keep him company.  Then more - - - you get the picture. 

[ZenWired]

I kinda feel bad for the folks who paid big bucks for the antique originals.

That's a joke, right?  Have you looked at Mirliton's rates to ship to the US? It would cost almost as much to ship here as the price of the models themselves.

As for the "antique" (vintage, maybe?  ) originals: in the last two weeks alone, I've picked up the Dauntless Dames, the Intrepid Investigators, and the CoC Adventurers box set on eBay - all for far less than it would cost me to buy them new and have them shipped here from Mirliton.

Don't get me wrong: I would love to have a source to get new casts of these (especially the deep ones!) but I find Mirliton's shipping rates to be exorbitant. Until something changes, I think I'll just keep trawling eBay on a regular basis...

[fairoaks024]

i have to agree with zenwired, i saw the post, thought 'must buy those' went to mirliton site, put them all in the cart, saw the total with shipping and tax and abandoned the purchase.

i'll be buying them from miniature ehroes here in the UK instead.

regards

jim

[Bossco101]

I've only just found out about the extended line myself, and I stock Mirliton!  

Anyway I hope to be expanding my listing for them in the shop next week, and then I'll be in a position to take pre-orders if anyone is interested.

Also my shipping rates to the US are less than Mirlitons so if there are things you would like I'm happy to quote you for them before you spend.

Regards

Tim
www.miniature-heroes.co.uk

[fairoaks024]

placed mine with tim already

regards

jim

[dreamingleopard]

I was purusing Web Pages wondering how to spend my monthly miniature allowance when I discovered new figures had been added to the Nightmares line (A recently revived line of old Grenadier Cthulhu/Horror figs).

Yeah... I'm sure I had a small part in it.  At the end of February, I sent a rather long, but organized list of all the figs they were missing from the Nightmare and original Call of Cthulhu lines along with links to pictures for easy reference.  Apparently the job of sorting through the molds was a task.  People are looking for these figs on eBay and the Arkham Horror crowd is now thinking minis, too.  I also asked Mirliton to put the old names with their new ones for search engine ease, and to cross-reference the site some more.  This came in my email last night:

"Hi,
We are putting on the site a lot of Nightmares miniatures ex Grenadier (Call
of Cthulhu range)
http://www.mirliton.it/index.php?page=4&cName=nightmares-28mm&sort=1a.
Tomorrow I will complete the range.
Step by step we are re - producing all the old Grenadier series.
Best regards
Stefano Grazzini"

It helps to write requests!
Woohoo! 

[fairoaks024]

good work then fella!

regards

jim

[Svennn]

"New Goodies to Play with...."

I wanted to see figures of 3 blokes on a 3 seater bicycle 

Back on topic these are some of my favourite figs and its not just nostalgia. I still have most of them from their original release and am very tempted to get some more to paint up.

[dreamingleopard]

Here's the list of missing figs I sent them, so watch for these  (those in bold I saw on the site already):

Ghouls (4 from the Call of Cthulhu line alone)  
Mirliton has repackaged the Grenadier Ghouls:
NM034 Ghouls 1  contains:
8501 Chill's Ghoul (http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:G-cn-8501z.jpg)
209/611 Ghoul (http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:G-nm-611.jpg)
6502 Creature boxed set's Ghoul (http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:G-coc-6502h.jpg)

NM035 Ghouls 2  contains:
The first I haven't identified yet that must be from an old Fantasy line; to hazard a guess without a pic, I'd suspect it's from Wizzards & Warriors' W31
Mummies & Ghouls pack.  Can anyone supply a proof?
2014 Folklore Creatures of the Night's M15 Ghoul (http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:G-dlfbs-2014z.jpg)
209/611 Crypt Creatures' other Ghoul (http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:G-coc-209a.jpg)

The coffin fig from Grenadier's 209 Ghouls pack seems to be in Mirliton's Zombies 1
[NM033] pack, since the Vampire's Vault pack (613 now NM018) has been left intact.
    
NM036 Zombies 2  contains:
8501 Chill's Black Tamanous (http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:G-cn-8501f.jpg)
8501 Chill's Zombie (http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:G-cn-8501z.jpg)
611 Crypt Creatures' MM31 Female Ghoul (http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:G-nm-611.jpg)

Mi-gos (2 plus the special Comedy fig special with fork and bib!)

Serpent men (3)

Sand Dwellers (3)

Cthonians (Grenadier later named them Tentacled Terrors)

Dimensional Shambler (see the lone fig in colour on the NM044 Horror Monsters II page)

Great Race of Yith

Old One (Elder Thing)

Dark Young of Shib-Niggurath

Shoggoth

Hunting Horror

For the original Wendigos, you need the NM015 Werewolves duo.

These former Call of Cthulhu Nightmares were put in non-Nightmare sections, so if you didn't see them before, you should be able to find them now:

CH015 Bloodsniffers of Chaos (Hounds of Tindalos)  The Hounds of Chaos given in the Nightmares section are not the original CoC Hounds of Tindalos.  For that fig, you need the Bloodsniffers.

UD030 Bloodthirsty Bats

KITF001 Mad Doctors (contains the three figs from NM019 Mad Scientists)

Grenadier's 629 Demon and Magic Circle (http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:G-nm-629.jpg) can be found split up between Mirliton's NM011 Demons (1) (Ragroona Beast of the Pit) and  NM012  Demons 2 (the circle). Together, these two packs, along with the Flying Polyp/Floating Death figure (NM013  Floating Death) made up the original 6006 Grenadier Demons boxed set (http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:G-flbs-6006-ins.jpg).

UD037 Ghosts (Apparitions)  NOTE: a couple of these seem to be Copplestone's "BT1 Bad Things 1," as listed on his site at http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/range.php?range=CC.  Wonder if Mirliton's got the two old people to go with them, too?  Since I have the old CoC Grenadier Apparitions pack, I'll be buying from Copplestone to get the ones I'm missing.  (Already picked up from eBay the Monster Manuscript Ghost that's the oddball out)  There are altogether six Apparitions/Ghosts from the CoC and Nightmare Grenadier lines.

Only two of the Black Monks (3) pack are available - in ME020 Wizards and Priests, which you will find in the Human Fantasy section.  The fat one is also the Friar Tuck figure of the Robin Hood line.

For the newbies to CoC, here are the original names of the Grenadier figs with their Mirliton new names:
Flying Polyp is now NM013  Floating Death.
Tsuthoggua is NM014  Cursed One.
Nyarlathotep NM001  Spawn Horror  
Deep Ones NM003       Creatures From Deep  
Spawn of Cthulhu NM004       Hell Beast      
Nightgaunts  NM005       Night Terrors      
Byakhee NM007       Bijecki  

Still waiting for these:

208 Undead's Buccaneer (last in the pic: http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:G-coc-208.jpg)

6501 Adventurers boxed set's Female Writer  (second in this pic: http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:G-coc-6501-cat.jpg)

212's Deep One with trident (second in this pic: http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:G-coc-212.jpg)

223's two Ghasts (http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/images/thumb/5/54/G-coc-223.jpg/111px-G-coc-223.jpg)

223's Gug (http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/images/thumb/e/e5/G-coc-224.jpg/98px-G-coc-224.jpg)

612 Crypt Collection (http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/images/thumb/b/b8/G-nm-612.jpg/120px-G-nm-612.jpg)

219's three London Bobbies (http://www.primigenios.com/bobbies.htm)

220's three Cultists (http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:G-coc-220.jpg)

221's three Domestics (http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:G-coc-221.jpg)

222's Yig (http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/images/thumb/e/e7/G-coc-222a.jpg/112px-G-coc-222a.jpg)

222's Moonbeast (http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:G-coc-222b.jpg)

One of the Black Monks (sorry, no pic yet)

According to a sold item on eBay, which of course isn't a reliable source, there was apparently a Society Couples pack from Grenadier.  They look like Grenadiers, and one definitely is the dandy fig from the 6501 box, but I haven't been able to verify the others.  The buyer had no complaints, so I surmise the bottoms were at least stamped with the brand.  You can still see the four figs at the bottom of this page: http://cgi.ebay.at/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350314545375  Anyone know of a Grenadier code for this supposed pack?  I love the figs...

Trivia:   The NM017  Psycho Killers are Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and the Boston Strangler.  

More Trivia: The NM025  Vile Villains are Fu Manchu, the Maltese Falcon, and the Shadow (or hypothesized by some as Van Helsing).  This guy wasn't in the original Sinister Gentlemen pack; instead, the old crypt caretaker (minus his lantern) was in this pack.  Compare: http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:G-coc-204.jpg with http://recipesrealm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:G-nm-612.jpg

When I get some more time, I'll try to see if all the Grenadier CoC humans are all available other than those I've already noticed as missing from the Mirliton lineup.

[ZenWired]

Wow... Thanks for this, dreamingleopard!

[dreamingleopard]

Errata:
Copplestone's second nightmarish fig in Bad Things I could be this mummy: UD038       Mummy (http://www.mirliton.it/product_info.php?pName=mummy); hard to tell without the hi-res popup.