Author Topic: Some Thunderbolt Mountain Woodland Indians... (Read 7675 times)

Trooper · « **Reply #15 on:** May 10, 2011, 01:50:11 PM »

Yeah I suppose they are ok, not bad for a beginner anyway.

Captain Blood · « **Reply #16 on:** May 10, 2011, 03:31:11 PM »

Thank you gentlemen und herren

You are too kind, truthfully.

Quote from: gamer Mac on May 10, 2011, 12:50:34 PM

Its weird I know but I don't like the sculpts
They look too skinny.
I know they are probably more realistic than our normal figures, in proportions, but I guess I have just got used to 28 mm.
Sorry

No need to apologise Colin. You're not alone in that view... Tom Meier is on record as saying how much he dislikes the orthodoxy that has led to most wargames figures looking like munchkins. As an artist (most definitely how he sees himself) he clearly believes that the natural shape of human beings is tall and skinny, not short and dumpy (he clearly hasn't been to many British wargames shows

)

In correcting what he sees as the munchkin-aberration tendency, I suspect he's swung the pendulum just a bit too far the other way. These figures really are uber-skinny and tall beyond willowy... Kind of anorexic-chic...
Then again, maybe that's what people are like in their natural, unfattened state in the wild...

Plus, he usually sculpts elves - and we all know what they're supposed to look like stature-wise, in the received kultur...

So I totally appreciate these aren't to everybody's taste

By the way, they're not actuall very different from 28mm, as this photo demonstrates:
L to R: Front Rank, Galloping Major, Thunderbolt Mountain, and Redoubt...

traveller · « **Reply #17 on:** May 10, 2011, 03:46:41 PM »

Funghy-Fipps · « **Reply #18 on:** May 10, 2011, 05:24:21 PM »

X-rated material that surely violates the terms and conditions of this forum. Very, very, very naughty...

Galland · « **Reply #19 on:** May 10, 2011, 06:37:59 PM »

I find my self coming back to this thread all the time, the miniatures are really impressive. Thank you very much for sharing this

dodge · « **Reply #20 on:** May 10, 2011, 09:36:24 PM »

Great stuff, you paint brilliantly,

what I just can't believe is that they took an early bath from that competition, what did they lose against, still can't believe it

you was robbed

dodge

geronimo · « **Reply #21 on:** May 11, 2011, 09:10:40 AM »

Lovely paint on lovely minis....size compo shot with the other manufacturers is very useful

Juan · « **Reply #22 on:** May 11, 2011, 08:11:49 PM »

Well, they are not the models we are used to see, but they are very good ones; I think not all the indians were muscle men with plumes, and I like specially the french soldier; I expect to see more models in this series.

Cheers,

Juan

gamer Mac · « **Reply #23 on:** May 12, 2011, 01:14:36 PM »

Still love the socks on my favourite (suicidal, if I am playing him

) Highlander

Gluteus Maximus · « **Reply #24 on:** May 13, 2011, 08:29:00 AM »

Seeing the comparison pic of the various ranges is very surprising. The TM figures by themselves look very slender, but the French soldier seems to fit in very well with the 28s. Maybe it's just his coat makes him look bigger, but I'd like to see some comparisons of just the various Indians as I suspect the TMs would look not fit in so well.

Seeing these gorgeous pics and browsing through the Galloping Major's range makes me want to get enough for a small skirmish or two. Recently watching Last Of The Mohicans again hasn't helped me to talk myself out of it