Jungle natives

[Sinewgrab]

I am getting ready to run a miniatures heavy Mutants and Masterminds Pulp game, and I was looking recommendations on either South American natives or African natives. So far, I seem to be stuck with either the Darkest Africa from Foundry, or Copplestone's amazon tribes. Are there any other good ones out there?

[Rhoderic]

Brigade Games makes some Javaro Headhunters under their Caribbean Empires range. These are cool especially because they have blowpipes, which I haven't seen in any of the other ranges.

Old Glory has some nice-looking African natives with masks, and some Caribbean ones as well under their pirate range. Being Old Glory they're probably quite small.

Personally I find the Copplestone ones very good. Don't forget Copplestone also makes African natives.

[Hammers]

I agree with Rhoderic. I wouldn't consider my self "stuck with" Copplestone if I had those Indians.

[Lowtardog]

Copplestone produce 3 Tribe variants all are Brazilian indians

Tupi - these fought both and aginst the French, Dutch and Portuguese

Botocudo or Aimore - theres were nomadic cannicals who fought everybody

and generic indians - only 1 pack which is a shame.


Eureak also produce Tupi but you have to order "under the counter" The London War room also produce Tupi but they are smaller and not as well defined - cheap though.

If you want more exotic you could go for Aztecs, Incas etc. Here you have a wealth of choice Foudnry, Outpost Wargames services, Eureka and The Assault group.


Not mentioned abover are the Foundry Natives which are a very nice African range (see the Prof paint a mini a day project for examples)

[Tsune]

I have the Copplestone Bocotudo natives and they are really nice. The Brigade games are nice too, but I don't like them as much as the copplestone ones. The are a good complement if you need blowpipes, as Rhoderic said.

For the African natives, I will go with Foundry and Copplestone. It depends of the tribe you like most and match perfectly. The natives in the post "Return to the Valley that time forgot" are from copplestone.

Another option is obelisk if you want amazons, and Conquest for their pygmy zombies.

[pierrebi]

what about Dixon DAHOMEY WARRIORS http://dixonminiatures.co.uk/dixoncatalogue.asp?maintype=19

[Lowtardog]

Forgot about those, they are very nice, may have to get some for my Dino hunting ::

thanks for the link

[Lowtardog]

Forgot about those, they are very nice, may have to get some for my Dino hunting ::

thanks for the link

Yep just ordered a few (ahem :oops: ) to try out ::

[warrenpeace]

I am getting ready to run a miniatures heavy Mutants and Masterminds Pulp game, and I was looking recommendations on either South American natives or African natives. So far, I seem to be stuck with either the Darkest Africa from Foundry, or Copplestone's amazon tribes. Are there any other good ones out there?

I agree with the recommendations made by the others, except for Rhoderic's comment about the Old Glory possibly being to small.  I bought a few of the Old Glory figures and they are close enough, size-wise.  I think the issue with Old Glory is whether or not you like the style and relative crudeness of the castings for the cheap price (especially with the "Old Glory Army" membership).  The masked figures are quite interesting.

The Old Glory figures are often highly animated, with odd poses that make one wonder if the figure is supposed to have stepped into a hornets nest.  The sculpting on the arms and legs of the African figures is inferior to to that of Foundry and Copplestone.  However, the point of ordering the Old Glory is to get a cheap mass of figures that look good in mass.  The over-animation of the figures makes them look active and alive in mass.

I recommend the cannibals from the Old Glory pirate line.  I don't have any myself yet, but I played in a pirate game that featured these at Enfilade in Olympia, Washington, last June.  They are more bulky, so look fine along with Foundry figures.  The guy putting on the pirate game had done a very attractive paint job on them featuring mud packed hair.  The poses are varied and made several mean looking groups of cannibals.

By the way, Sinewgrab, we are neighbors.  I'm in Hillsboro.

[Rhoderic]

I never said "too small", just "small". This could be a good thing as easily as a bad one.

[The Hooded Claw]

Blatent shout out ot the Northwesterners mentioned here, but any of you going to be at Game Storm in March?

As for the Old Glory cannibal natives.  I like these guys.  They look better than a lot of OG's oher stuff (I tend to be okay with OG, as they paint up pretty easily).  They seem to have a nice variety of gear, including some crude clubs that look like they could be bone or knobby wood.

[Sinewgrab]

Hmm. I'll have to take a look at the Old Glory ones.

The reason I said "stuck with" the Copplestone, is I have never been fond of his facial sculpting style - or his Future Wars line would have killed me financially. (heh). More to the point, I find him hard to get a hold of, and I dislike ordering from overseas. I have always had poor luck with it - with the exception of Hasslefree Miniatures. I just wanted to know if I had statside option for a 'native savages' faction in my Pulp Campaigns. Maybe someone has ones they want to trade? I'll have to put an ad in the Bazaar.

[The Hooded Claw]

If youdon't want to order from him directly, try the Thewarstore.com.  US online retailer that carries Copplestone.

[wellender]

Here are a couple from Reaper.  The king is pretty cool.


http://www.reapermini.com/gallery/3100s/3145_G

http://www.reapermini.com/gallery/3100s/3153_G

[area23]

But shouldn't south american natives be at least a head smaller than Europeans/Caucasians anyway? I know all the indigos in Mexico were way smaller than I am, and all photos of Amazonian tribals I've seen show them smaller than western anthropologists/scientists/aid-workers/travellers.

Copplestone figs are bigger than Foundry or Brigade and I believe Pulp Figs too. I don't think he made new dollies for the natives range.