Identification request

[Daeothar]

Can anyone tell me what these are? Their bases say 'hhg 95'...

[Westfalia Chris]

I'd say those are barbarians from the "Leviathan" game, back when Heartbreaker Hobbies and Games (i.e. HHG) made the figures for it (nowadays Scotia Grendel does the metal figures too, not just the resin beasties).

[Daeothar]

Cheers Chris: that's them alright!

Saw them on a Dutch auction/for sale site. Now to determine what to offer for them. Hmm... the banner top seems to be missing...

[Westfalia Chris]

Cheers Chris: that's them alright!

Saw them on a Dutch auction/for sale site. Now to determine what to offer for them. Hmm... the banner top seems to be missing...

As said, the figures are back in production (AFAIK) with Scotia Grendel, so it's not exactly as if they had a high collectors value.

Link:

http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Products/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=221_222_46_49

[Daeothar]

I know, but I kind of like the way they're sculpted. I saw they're basically 25mm, so on the small side. But I'm sure that they could be pressed into service as some sort of beardless dwarven kin, perhaps some youngsters...

[Westfalia Chris]

I'm sorry, what I meant to say was don't pay too much since you can still get new castings. Sometimes I'm amazed by people paying more than retail in auctions, occasionally because they're unaware the figures are not OOP.

That said, the figures weren't too bad back in the day. Not quite as good as the resin beasts (some of which I'll add to my goblin army at some point, but decent enough, if a bit chunky and stiffly-posed. Still, your suggestion of beardless dwarves (pitiful fellows!) sounds eminently reasonable.

[Daeothar]

Cheers.

I was thinking somewhere around the €10,- mark myself.

Yeah; clan Wilkinsson ventured far into the deep south many generations ago and was presumed lost by their kin. Until a small adventuring party, led by Thane Hyr Sutnomor was encountered on the Kingsroad West of the Middle Mountains near a small town called Gillette... 

[tin shed gamer]

They look to be sculpted by  Naismith.(The two in the bottom right corner are very similar to the figures he. sculpted for Citadel/GW in the early nineties)It might help you track them down.
He did some 40k and I think some lotr for them. Its either Ted or Bob Naismith one sculpts the others an illistrator,I'm not sure which is which as I've had the odd sleep since then.

[fastolfrus]

Bob isn't it?

Also sculpted for Grenadier (25mm) and Roundway (15mm)?

Now sculpting for Mantic I think.