Queen Victoria and the Royal Expedition to The Lost World

[revford]

A few pictures and notes on how we plan to get started on our Lost World games.

The plan is to use the Legends of the Old West game, as it covers all the weapons we want and games are nice and "Heroic", adding in Dinos based on either the LOTOW Dinos rules from Wargames Journal or making things up based on the Lord of The Rings rules.

The Royal Expedition is headed up by Queen Victoria, a keen big game hunter and renowned explorer:




Supporting Queenie will be her Ladies in Waiting, armed and ready to provide both Tea and Covering Fire:




Some of the Great Hunters and Gentlemen Explorers of the age have joined the party, ready to bag a big one for the British Museum’s natural history collection:





I've already started collecting together Dinos for the Hunt, the plan is to have the first ones painted up this week for a trial run of the game next Wednesday.

Should all go well we plan to add some Copplestone Cavemen as Natives and to build a Howdah on the back of a huge dinosaur to create a traveling tea room.

[Hammers]

I know Eureka makes a Queenie Vic but where do you get hold of the Foundry one?

[revford]

I know Eureka makes a Queenie Vic but where do you get hold of the Foundry one?

It was a freebie when I ordered something year or so back, maybe longer.

I've got a few of these models that came as freebie of the month from Foundry over the years.  Queen Victoria, The Ratcatcher, The Mummy, A Combat Vicar and Vampire Slayer Girl, not sure what else.

[Buzgob]

I believe the Queen Vic with gun miniature was part of a set of 3 mini's you got with a Wargames Illustrated subscription. Either the first or second year they did this. It's the Queen with 2 of her ladies, all 3 of them with guns (if I remember correctly, got all the info at home, not here at work  :wink: ).

[revford]

I've never subscribed to Wargames Illustrated, so I only have the Queen and not her Ladies.  The Ladies I have with the Queen are from the Foundry Darkest Africa range.

I think it was when I ordered some Foundry WWII packs.

[Captain Blood]

Here in the UK, the Foundry special edition Queen Victoria (in fact, most of the Foundry special edition models for that matter) pop up fairly regularly on eBay, and tend to go for 2 or 3 GBP each. I'm sure if you put a search in for her, you'd pick one up within a couple of weeks.

For some reason (can't remember how) I ended up with about 4 Ratcatchers as freebies from Foundry. Really must sell them on eBay!  :wink:

[Deathwing]

Is the combat vicar the same as Father McSweeney?  Does someone have a picture?  Thanks.

Joey

[revford]

Here he is leading my Church of England Zombie Reinhumers.  I've chopped the massive scope and suppressor off his machine pistol as it was just too big.

[Deathwing]

Lovely, thanks.  Sorry for the thread jack by the way.  The queen and her compatriots look the bees knees.

Joey

[revford]

Lovely, thanks.  Sorry for the thread jack by the way.  The queen and her compatriots look the bees knees.

Don't worry about it, conversations wander where they will.  Is that the chap you were thinking of?  I didn't know the model had a name, if my memory serves me he arrived alongside some frustratingly tall Roman Legionaries.

[Deathwing]

Technically no, but I have added another miniature to my want list.  Now I need to get one.  I actually thought it was another model, but I'll start another post in Future Wars to cover that.  Thanks.

Joey

[Malamute]

There is another armed Vicar figure that was given away as a freebie. He is armed with a revolver and a stake and is wearinga tail coat, so more suitable for the Victorian era. He is not the father Mc sweeney figure or the modern one shown above.
Unfortunaley my digital camera is broken so I cannot photograph him for you.

[revford]

Sounds good, is there a page where someone has compiled all these Foundry freebie models?

[Buzgob]

Not to my knowledge. I've only made a list in xl with a lot of them, but without pictures.

[revford]

Not to my knowledge. I've only made a list in xl with a lot of them, but without pictures.

If you could send me your xls file I'll see about turning it into a web page, I'm sure between the Lead Adventurers here we most of the collection we can take pictures of.  

Lost World update time!  I've got the small dinos painted up, not really sure what manner of beast they are so for now I'm just calling them "Small Dinos".