Eureka 28mm randomness November Part 1

[cdm]

I'm just about out of internet quota, which means my tap gets shut off instead of throttled, so I'm uploading some new items I received today and the rest in about a week's time.

All items are the usual Eureka 28mm to eye height figures with generally slim builds.

George Formby George Formby in classic pose playing a Ukulele. He leans on a separate gas lamp post which plugs into his base. The top of the post is detailed with a regular old style square gas lamp


Frog Princess A slightly short and dumpy frog princess bearing an umbrella over her shoulder


Revolutionary Wars France
Cantiniere A lovely uniform attired lady with her mule and covered cart. The cart is in 4 pieces - base, 2 wheels, and a cover. To dress up the cart there is a victuals pack released with little bits and pieces. I may photo it for next session, it's very fiddly to get the bits in focus properly - loaves of bread, bottles, rabbit, buckets, etc





Representative of the Revolution on a Mission An ambassadory looking officer type, no doubt based on some real thing I have no inkling of



Field Bakery A nice set composed of a small resin field oven, a baker with a pole to place loaves in the oven, a small stack of grain bags, a small stack of firewood, a large table on which goes a separate large dough lump with has 4 fine holes in it. There is a lady baker who walks over the dough and has 2 small pins to fix to the dough and through it to the table below. It may not be clear, but she' pulled the back of her skirt up through her legs to prevent it dragging in the dough. There are also 2 labourers which attached to the fine holes on the outside of the dough to align them a little as they kneed the dough as well.





The Duelists 2 camp followers who have slipped into a short skirt and uniform jacket for a bit of distraction causing pillow fighting. A nice bit of whimsy to liven up your cossack raiding party vignette or whatever may tickle your fancy




Sword Sharpeners 2 labourers working on a grinding wheel. The turn crank for the wheel is cast attached to the base and slots into a fine hole in the wheel axle. This then fits to one guys hands while the sword guys rests his weapon fairly neatly on the wheel



Wheelwright A labourer seated on a separate one piece cast bench. He works shaping a lump of timber




Officer Personalities Four foot and 1 mounted officer with a bit of flair and variation over the standard officers. There is a separate bicorne for the officer without hat, so you can put it on him if you so desire, or place it in his hand.




Revolutionary Zombies I finally received the full set of Revolutionary French Zombies. We have the original Napoleon at Arcola resin bridge with metal handrails all zombiefied up, but I reckon it would fit pretty well in a ruined jungle setting. The rails don't fir the bridge 'out of the box' and need a bit of rebending/aligning to make them sit a little better. There are also 8 figures for the bridge. Napoleon in typical Boney pose in long coat and tricorne, Napoleon in his Arcola bridge crossing pose( shown in a much earlier post), a standard bearer with a half a body impaled on the top of the banner, the legs walking separately, a zombie catching a fleeing soldier and eating his brains and 2 charging

[The Dozing Dragon]

Wow. Just wow. Top notch sculpting and great ideas.

[Big Martin]

Glad to see that George Formby "turned out nice again".

Got to get me one of those.

[Mancha]

Thanks for posting the pics.  Interesting collection of minis.  I have to admit to being surprised by the George Formby mini; I wonder what would make a sculptor decide to do such a thing?  Will doubtless be fun for pulp players though.  Great likeness, although I generally don't like minis that require that something be added to their base, as is the case with his lamp post.

[Steve F]

George Formby ... with his lamp post.

We need a matching Mussolini: "I'm hanging from a lamp post at the corner of the street ..."

[Steve F]

The Duelists 2 camp followers who have slipped into a short skirt and uniform jacket for a bit of distraction causing pillow fighting. A nice bit of whimsy to liven up your cossack raiding party vignette or whatever may tickle your fancy

By strange coincidence, I just found this on TGN ( http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2011/11/04/52033/ )

Fiendish Fabrications release a new game

    Pillow-A-Go-Go is a game of pillow wielding combat where scantily clad young beauties engage in frenzied action for dominance of the Supra-Kingsize Comfy Divan. It is available as a free PDF download at Fiendish Fabrications. Just go to the website and follow the links.

    Players take control of teams of 2 or 3 girls and attempt to knock the stuffing out of their rivals using their pillow fighting skills and a few dirty tricks along the way...

[Doomsdave]

That uniformed girl and her kit looks like she could serve as a supply train or camp base for those lovely Hinterland Girls.

[Elprez]

That uniformed girl and her kit looks like she could serve as a supply train or camp base for those lovely Hinterland Girls.

My thoughts exactly,  .
I'll keep an eye out for that turning up at Fighting 15s.

[Dr Mathias]

Really, really interesting.

[archangel1]

I really don't need any more reasons to look at Eureka's minis! I've already got a mental shopping list that's far too long! Thanks for reminding me about George.  The first time he was mentioned, I went and downloaded some of his more well-known video clips from YouTube.  Must see if I've still got his record album.  Must be in the 'archives' down the basement somewhere.

[traveller]

Wow 

Any release schedule?

[Old Goat]

I have to say I met with them down at the recent Sandwich show, what a lovely chap and what an incredible selection of beautiful sculpts...

[Hammers]

Lovely, lovely, lovely... Although the yet another foray into epoch weirdness feels a bit unnecessary to me.

But George Fornby...Cool!

Now there's a famous talkie queen
She looks a flapper on the screen
She's more like eightie than eighteen
When I'm cleanin' windows

She pulls her hair all down behind
Then pulls down her... never mind
And after that pulls down the blind
When I'm cleanin' windows

[cdm]

My good guessage is that most have actually been available for a few months from the shop as my shipment has been delayed a long time. I expect the Revolutionary French items will get a speedy formal release. If there's stuff you'd like now, I'd suggest sending an email and asking for pricing and availability.

Considering their latest release has just shown off Lady Godiva whom I've had since 2005 (though on a different horse which was resculpted in 2008), for George or the Frog Princess I'd definitely inquire about purchasing rather than wait for a formal release.

Wow 

Any release schedule?

[Christian]

A great selection of stuff there. I actually went to the Eureka shop + factory (even got the guided tour!) but I didn't see all these. Probably a good thing, as it is very easy to spend money there. Walked out with the entire set of new US moderns and lots of other goodies, though.

A word on the Frog Princess:

That's by me! I took the conversion to a show here and showed Nic, the rest is history. As you can imagine, I'm really chuffed to see it in production.