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Offline hendybadger

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Super miniature line?
« on: December 17, 2011, 11:12:01 PM »
I know of Pulp City, Chronoscope, Superfigs, Crossover and Heroclix ranges.
But are there any other Superhero mini ranges out there?

Thanks in advance
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Offline mrgrigson

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Re: Super miniature line?
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2011, 05:02:02 AM »
Lance and Laser used to do the Villains & Vigilantes series. While Armorcast has picked up the fantasy stuff from L&L, I don't know if they have the superheroes yet.

If you want some key phrases for some ebay searches, Champions minis were made by three different companies over the years: Heritage, Grenadier, and (I believe) Soldiers & Swords.  Other out of print options include GW's Golden Heroes (2 box sets, I believe), TSR's Marvel Super Heroes (3 sets), and Grenadier's DC Heroes minis (5 sets).

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Re: Super miniature line?
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2011, 08:58:39 AM »
There was a Silver Age Sentinels range 5-7 years back. I still have several of them sealed in blister in the "for trade" pile, should perhaps list them one of these days.

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Re: Super miniature line?
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2011, 03:21:29 PM »
Black Hat miniatures has a few Superheroes in their Mutants and Madmen SF line:

http://www.blackhat.co.uk/online_shop/index.php?cPath=121_122_141&osCsid=39ea151b39ab2deeb923f7dce052cdc1

The Citadel Golden Heroes line included blisters as well as the two boxed sets, and there were many variant sculpts of the various figures (alternate heads/costumes/etc.):

http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Golden_Heroes
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Re: Super miniature line?
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2011, 09:41:06 PM »
Cheers for the links all. Found some nice minis through them.
Even found a Super MMO!

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Re: Super miniature line?
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2011, 10:51:04 PM »
I know of Pulp City, Chronoscope, Superfigs, Crossover and Heroclix ranges.
But are there any other Superhero mini ranges out there?

Thanks in advance

With the ranges you 're speaking about you've got enough super minis for massive battles...and years of painting ;)

Mention to Heroclix, their figures (style and sculpture) are often underestimated in my opinion. Especially the old marvel sets (Infinity challenge set, Cloberrin time, etc...) wich I like a lot.

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Re: Super miniature line?
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2011, 02:43:43 PM »
Im just not keen on the Heroclix models myself. And they arnt easy to get hold of in my corner of the world.
Not too impressed by the Superfigs either.
I have 75% of the Pulp City models and all the Chronoscope ones I like.
Thats why Im looking for other options.

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Re: Super miniature line?
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2011, 04:52:51 PM »
Lance and Laser used to do the Villains & Vigilantes series. While Armorcast has picked up the fantasy stuff from L&L, I don't know if they have the superheroes yet.

If you want some key phrases for some ebay searches, Champions minis were made by three different companies over the years: Heritage, Grenadier, and (I believe) Soldiers & Swords.  Other out of print options include GW's Golden Heroes (2 box sets, I believe), TSR's Marvel Super Heroes (3 sets), and Grenadier's DC Heroes minis (5 sets).

That line was picked up by Team Frog.  I have them all and they tend to be kind of small.  Maybe closer to 25mm.

http://www.teamfrog.com/fig-ll.htm

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Re: Super miniature line?
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2011, 05:47:55 PM »
That line was picked up by Team Frog.  I have them all and they tend to be kind of small.  Maybe closer to 25mm.

http://www.teamfrog.com/fig-ll.htm

There were two eras of V&V/Living Legends minis. The first era were definitely 25mm at most, but the latter ones are pretty finely sculpted 28 mm minis (by Sandra Garrity, who also sculpted the Silver Age Sentinels minis BTW, so they match well).
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Re: Super miniature line?
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2011, 05:52:21 PM »
This might be a mix.  There are some that scale up with 28mm ok, but most seem a bit small. I know Sandra Garrity sculpted some of them.  Off the top of my head, the InterCrime Agents scaled up pretty good.

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Re: Super miniature line?
« Reply #10 on: December 20, 2011, 12:50:05 AM »
Im just not keen on the Heroclix models myself. And they arnt easy to get hold of in my corner of the world.
Not too impressed by the Superfigs either.
I have 75% of the Pulp City models and all the Chronoscope ones I like.
Thats why Im looking for other options.

While some of the Superfigs line of sculpts aren't of the highest quality, most are really nice, dynamic sculpts. Bob Naismith sculpted a lot of the line, and they are excellent. I think that you should take another look at the line - the figs possess lots of character and paint up very nicely.

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Re: Super miniature line?
« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2011, 01:22:32 PM »
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Re: Super miniature line?
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2011, 02:54:48 PM »
Oh yes. First post.
I will take another look at the Superfigs

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Re: Super miniature line?
« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2011, 04:42:44 PM »
Some of the Superfigs look a lot better in hand than they do in pictures too.

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Re: Super miniature line?
« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2011, 11:05:32 PM »
I have found that with afew ranges.
Might have to order 1 or 2 and see.

Is there a UK stockist for Superfigs?

 

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