Author Topic: Tropical islanders? (Read 4279 times)

General Roos · « **on:** 06 July 2010, 06:09:14 PM »

Anyone know where to find tropical islanders as maoris, hawaiians. polynesians etc? Both warriors and civilians?

Svennn · « **Reply #1 on:** 06 July 2010, 06:10:58 PM »

Pulp and Eureka should be your firsts ports of call.

Lowtardog · « **Reply #2 on:** 06 July 2010, 06:14:30 PM »

Quote from: Svennn on 06 July 2010, 06:10:58 PM

Pulp and Eureka should be your firsts ports of call.

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

General Roos · « **Reply #3 on:** 06 July 2010, 06:17:49 PM »

I think Pulp natives are more of a rainforest kind than islanders. I'll check the other websites. Thanks guys!

Plynkes · « **Reply #4 on:** 06 July 2010, 06:19:40 PM »

No, the Pulp ones are Melanesians. Definitely islanders. Solomons, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, etc.

General Roos · « **Reply #5 on:** 06 July 2010, 06:29:33 PM »

Quote from: Plynkes on 06 July 2010, 06:19:40 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 canoe)

The Pulp Melanesians looks fierce!

General Roos · « **Reply #6 on:** 06 July 2010, 06:41:59 PM »

Found both maoris and hawaiians at Eureka. Unfortunately, they looked a bit, I don´t know... "80´s".

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

Aaron · « **Reply #7 on:** 06 July 2010, 06:44:13 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!

General Roos · « **Reply #8 on:** 06 July 2010, 06:48:41 PM »

Quote from: Aaron on 06 July 2010, 06:44:13 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?

Aaron · « **Reply #9 on:** 06 July 2010, 07:00:34 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.

Cory · « **Reply #10 on:** 06 July 2010, 07:16:32 PM »

Crunchwaffle also did a couple. Their Hula dancer is the only one I have and it was fairly nice.

Sangennaru · « **Reply #11 on:** 06 July 2010, 07:46:02 PM »

i guess you meant 28 mm, but if you like 15mm you can have some wonderful Khurasan headcutter amazons!

fastolfrus · « **Reply #12 on:** 06 July 2010, 10:26:07 PM »

East Riding Miniatures have some in 15mm :

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

cdm · « **Reply #13 on:** 07 July 2010, 11:14:04 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