Celtic Myth reference photos

[LeadAsbestos]

Kind of a niche alert, but I'm taking pics as I collect, as there seem to be no good reference photos of this line from Alternative Armies. So here they are, bare metal (for the most part):
http://displacedminiatures.com/LeadAsbestos2010/gallery/3164/

I'll probably link to the Lost Minis Wiki when I get a few more done.

Hope it helps someone!

[former user]

Hey, cool someone is using these
I remember them very well from the 90ies. I am not even sure if at some time I did not buy a few.

[Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye]

Gotta get one of those "Conann" figures! 

[axabrax]

Love this range except for the "sidhe." I even have the 1st edition of the rules somewhere. A real niche game!

[aiteal]

Love this range except for the "sidhe."

Goes to show how one man's meat is another man's poison.
I've always thought the Celtic Myth line as a text book example of a miniatures range going downhill.
Bob Olley's sidhe and fomor as well as being the first releases were also the best imo, I can remember my disappointment opening Games master international mag and seeing the milesians, and thinking mehhh, and being even more disappointed with the casting quality, too many lopsided faces. The chariot just about reprieved the sons of mil. The Finn and ArdRi minis were a little bit better, but the follow up releases, like those horrible celtic undead, gahhhhh, woeful sculpts. Checking back on the range a few years ago I discovered they had done even worse minis, those nemidians!

 

[nicknorthstar]

By co-incidence, I found some of these figures from 'back in the day' and we re-photographed them. Ignore the Horned dude in the background, he's something completely different.



Nick
http://northstarfigures.com/

[aiteal]

Wow, beautiful paint job, even if does make me now reconsider that my problem with the milesians back then was probably down to my lack of painting ability
I suppose not being Bob Olley sculpts the milesians did at least allow painters to paint suitably celtic patterns on the trousers without pulling their hair out in frustration.

[LeadAsbestos]

I've been nothing but pleased with the quality of the castings I've gotten, and I'm a fan of a quirky sculpt. Lots of character in the Milesians! That photo from nick is what got me to drag them out of the lead pile!

[aiteal]

I've been nothing but pleased with the quality of the castings I've gotten

I remember the first two times I ordered the milesians back in the early 90's the faces were deformed because the moulds seemed to be misaligned on specific figures. I ordered them again about 3 years ago and they had the same problem on the same figures.

Alternative Armies had a lot of really nice Olley sculpts back then which seem to have vanished from their web site. Outside of his Sidhe, I was always a big fan of the sculpts he did for fantasy warriors game.

[eilif]

Thanks for those pics.  Definitely a niche set, but they're nice figs and deserve a wider audience.

Here's my modest attempt at painting a batch of 5 Sidhe that I got in a huge random bin-o-lead that a friend and I bought at this year's Little Wars Convention.  Not bad for base colors + Minwax. The rock basing is bits of pine bark (sold as "pine chips" for mulch) pressed into fireplace mortar/cement.



They're serving as Elf Barbarians in my slowly growing Chaos Army. If any one's got 5 more gathering dust, I'd like to bulk this out to a full unit.
With their amigos.

[eilif]

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[nicknorthstar]

Here is a Sidhe figure I painted around the same time (1991 I think).



It is a std bearer conversion of the spearman shown in an earlier photo.

I did have a 'Hordes of the Things' Sidhe army, no idea where it is now.

Nick

[LeadAsbestos]

updated w/ a few more codes.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

By co-incidence, I found some of these figures from 'back in the day' and we re-photographed them. Ignore the Horned dude in the background, he's something completely different.



Nick
http://northstarfigures.com/

What a paint job. I've got one of the guys but never thought of painting it. Who is the painter, Dallimore?

[LeadAsbestos]

He is, and this pic was the inspiration to get all my CM minis collected and painted. They had gotten tossed in the "To sell" pile, and then I saw this...

Now if only I could convince Mr Dallimore to paint a Salute Arthur for me...