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Author Topic: WF Skellies  (Read 1730 times)

Offline Ragnar

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WF Skellies
« on: March 24, 2012, 10:01:14 PM »
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Re: WF Skellies
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2012, 06:32:58 AM »
I wanted to get some of these for some Greek Myth gaming... what's your overall impression?

Offline Ragnar

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Re: WF Skellies
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2012, 07:59:42 AM »
I wanted to get some of these for some Greek Myth gaming... what's your overall impression?

Damned fiddly to put together but I think quite good when they are done. 

One of the things I liked about them is that they didn't have clothing or armour so are very easy to paint.

Offline Braxandur

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Re: WF Skellies
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2012, 09:59:01 AM »
I must admit that I actually do like these a lot. You also painted them very nicely, which certainly helps. How do you like the details on the skulls? It looks a bit like the teeth are not that visible.

I'm actually also wondering a bit about the scale. Do you know how these scale up to old GW plastic (the bob naismith), the newest GW plastics and the ones from mantic.
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Re: WF Skellies
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2012, 10:02:19 AM »
Good bronze on those shields.

Offline WuZhuiQiu

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Re: WF Skellies
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2012, 04:04:55 PM »
Nice work! Were the weapons and shields from another set?

Offline TheShadow

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Re: WF Skellies
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2012, 04:44:15 PM »
they are very reminiscent of the old gw plastic skellies from many moons ago !
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Re: WF Skellies
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2012, 12:19:43 AM »
Thanks all for the comments. :)

@Braxandur; I think overall, the detail is fine, at least for my standards.  The teeth: possibly, I could have washed them a bit more carefully so that they stood out more.  Sorry, I don't have any other skellingtons to compare with.  I will be getting some old GW skelly armour from a mate so that I can pimp out a leader though!

@WuZhuiQiu; no, everything you see in these photos is from the WF set.  So if you wanted some armour you would need to pinch from elsewhere.

 

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