Help IDing some old and some very old miniatures

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

Hi all! Have a couple of figures and I'm trying to figure out who made them, and if there's an outside chance that they're still available anywhere.







Hoping to use the goblinoid guys as mewlips for Lord of the Rings, and the elves as Mirkwood rangers.  Any help is much appreciated!

[MikeLance]

They are Ral Partha figures first produced in 1979 and sculptured by Tom Meier.
No longer in production with arguments about ownership.

http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/?title=Fantasy_Collector_Series

Very lovely in their own way and alas expensive when some come up on eBay 

Tom has his own miniatures company http://www.thunderboltmountain.com/ and produces a 30mm fantasy range which continues the tradition of these figures.

[BlackWidowPilot]

First photo are Goblin Imps with javelins.  Second photo are Goblins, among the very first of Tom Meier's work for Ral Partha IIRC. The two Elves are two out of a three figure set of Three Staged Character: Elf Fighter if my Jurassic age memory recalls correctly. I know them all well as I painted enough of them back in the day for my FLGS... lots of fun those goblins and goblin imps...

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

Thanks!  Well, off to see if I can't track some down...

[Onebigriver]

The Elf fighter on the right came with the limited edition version of:

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17533/new-easy-master-dungeons-dragons




TBH I don't think they were that limited - I found the dwarf I was missing from my secondhand set quite easily and cheaply on ebay.

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

I think those sculpts must have been repackaged in smaller blisters for role players or something, because my brother has two in pewter, plus the other one pictured above, and we had the game dungeon, but with the purple plastic minis rather than pewter, so he had to have acquired them elsewhere at some point.

[Grimmnar]

Those are all part of the 3 stage Minis.

Grimm

[Tactalvanic]

Those are all part of the 3 stage Minis.

Grimm

The Elf fighter on the right came with the limited edition version of:

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17533/new-easy-master-dungeons-dragons




TBH I don't think they were that limited - I found the dwarf I was missing from my secondhand set quite easily and cheaply on ebay.

Both mostly

3rd  - he's a ringer, as not 3 stage character - out of a pack of thieves -01-114

1st and 4th - 01-326 Cleric 3 stage character - missing middle stage

2nd - 0-323 - Dwarf Fighter first stage.

5th - 01-324 - Elf Fighter middle stage of 3 stage character

mind you thats according to the numbering in the ral partha catalogue from 1993 that I just happen to have lying around as I am having a new year tidy up...

However, as always, they also get re-packaged/used and all of them were in the

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17533/new-easy-master-dungeons-dragons

I justed looked at it on the shelf, and the blister pack in the box...

 Sad I know but there it is. Have to clean sometimes, keeps my better half happy 

they might be available from http://www.ralparthaeurope.co.uk/

But I am supposed to be working right now so not looked

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

Well, thanks for the detailed rundown! Having a look at the Ral Partha site now...

[Tactalvanic]

Seems they  only have the first two on the website

Be curious to know if they have the molds for those and a lot of other ones still.

[Garanhir]

I bought all three clerics (and the druids) from them last year, but I'm still waiting for one of the rangers to be re-moulded.

[Maccwar]

Those Ral Partha adventurers make regular appearances on my D&D games. I remember picking up the game set very cheaply back in the 90s and then selling it on minus the metal minis after playing through everything in the box. I finally got around to painting them in 2010.

I also have the other elf but he still has his original paint job and is in a far worse state than those above.

I really like these adventurers but they look quite delicately proportioned compared to today's minis.

[Tactalvanic]

More Human scaled 28mm (25mm?) rather than HEROIC scaled.

Still delicate or not looking, I like 'em.

They are nice. I did the same in the 90's got the box cheep, er, but the minis are still in the blister...

One day, maybe soon, maybe not.

Lots of lead in the queue to get through.

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

The slim proportions are great! It's what makes them a great match for GW's LOTR line, IMO, which is exactly who I planned to use them alongside.

[Onebigriver]

The Elf fighter on the right came with the limited edition version of:

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17533/new-easy-master-dungeons-dragons

Had a D'oh! moment there. The minis actually came with Dragon Quest:

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1543/dragon-quest