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Offline General Roos

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Tropical islanders?
« on: July 06, 2010, 05:09:14 PM »
Anyone know where to find tropical islanders as maoris, hawaiians. polynesians etc? Both warriors and civilians?
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Offline Svennn

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Re: Tropical islanders?
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2010, 05:10:58 PM »
Pulp and Eureka should be your firsts ports of call.
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Offline Lowtardog

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Re: Tropical islanders?
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2010, 05:14:30 PM »
Pulp and Eureka should be your firsts ports of call.

Seconded also the Arawaks firom Eureka and Schetlrum would be a nice alternative

Offline General Roos

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Re: Tropical islanders?
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2010, 05:17:49 PM »
I think Pulp natives are more of a rainforest kind than islanders. I'll check the other websites. Thanks guys!  :)

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Re: Tropical islanders?
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2010, 05:19:40 PM »
No, the Pulp ones are Melanesians. Definitely islanders. Solomons, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, etc.
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Offline General Roos

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Re: Tropical islanders?
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2010, 05:29:33 PM »
No, the Pulp ones are Melanesians. Definitely islanders. Solomons, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, etc.

My mistake. I was thinking of Copplestones Botocudos and Tupis. (Have been awake all night with my newborn son, so all Indians are not on board the canoeo_o
The Pulp Melanesians looks fierce!  :)

Offline General Roos

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Re: Tropical islanders?
« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2010, 05:41:59 PM »
Found both maoris and hawaiians at Eureka. Unfortunately, they looked a bit, I donīt know... "80īs".  :?

I think I'm going for the ones from Pulp! Thanks for your help!

Offline Aaron

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Re: Tropical islanders?
« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2010, 05:44:13 PM »
I have the Eureka Hawaiians and they are great figures (the war canoe is fantastic!), but you can never go wrong with Pulp Figures!

Offline General Roos

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Re: Tropical islanders?
« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2010, 05:48:41 PM »
I have the Eureka Hawaiians and they are great figures

They looked a bit "clumsy" and short on the pictures.  :? Do you have any painted Eureka Hawaiian to show me?  :)

Offline Aaron

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Re: Tropical islanders?
« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2010, 06:00:34 PM »
My Hawaiians are still in my unpainted lead pile, sorry! Honestly I think they are not quite up to the "usual" Eureka standards, although better than they look in the photos on their site. Unless you really need war canoes you are probably better off with the Pulp offerings as I don't doubt they are the better figures. 

Offline Cory

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Re: Tropical islanders?
« Reply #10 on: July 06, 2010, 06:16:32 PM »
Crunchwaffle also did a couple. Their Hula dancer is the only one I have and it was fairly nice.
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Re: Tropical islanders?
« Reply #11 on: July 06, 2010, 06:46:02 PM »
i guess you meant 28 mm, but if you like 15mm you can have some wonderful Khurasan headcutter amazons!


Offline fastolfrus

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Re: Tropical islanders?
« Reply #12 on: July 06, 2010, 09:26:07 PM »
East Riding Miniatures have some in 15mm :

http://shop.eastridingminiatures.co.uk/index.asp
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Offline cdm

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Re: Tropical islanders?
« Reply #13 on: July 07, 2010, 10:14:04 AM »
Eureka have the Malay Dayaks, very fine pieces.



The Hawaiians and Maoris are by Mike Broadbent, they are an acquired taste I agree. They paint decently, they just look rough bare. They are also about 22mm eye height, so not so tall.
The Tupi are more cleanly sculpted and have 3 or 4 hairstyle variants and are abit taller at 24mm eye hieght. Here's a couple images of them bare




Some of the unarmoured Mayans may also be suitable





 

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