What's your favorite Palanquin model?

[Alxbates]

I'm thinking about adding a palanquin to my range of figures, but planning out the construction is proving to be complex!

I'd like to see what's out there already, maybe I can take some cues from what works (and what doesn't work!) about currently extant models on the market.

So... what's your favorite/least favorite palanquin model?  What do you like (or dislike!) about it?

-Alex in Alaska

[JollyBob]

The old Citadel Realms of Chaos Nurgle Palanquin.
A lovely hefty bit of lead, a characterful sculpt with a choice of riders, and of course held aloft by swarms of Nurglings when they were still mischievous imps.

EDIT For picture lifted off Google Images...



I will paint mine one day..  

Other than that, there was a great Aztec or Inca one whose manufacturer eludes me for the moment - Outpost maybe? It was really nicely sculpted but the it basically looked like four big lads taking an old guy for a walk in his bath. Made me laugh, anyway.

[LeadAsbestos]

The Outpost one is a dead ancestor, isn't it? Thus the old guy!

Personally, I like the old Ral Partha wizard palanquin with the monster bearers.

[Pangolino]

Yeah, "Evil Lord on Litter with Bearers". I wish I still had that one; it was great. The thing that must have been a corpse with its arms tied to the bat-wings on the chair back was extremely creepy, and the pose of the lord was perfect. The monsters reminded me of the muppet "Sweetums".

The most recent palanquin miniature I have is the Mirliton version of the Grenadier "U.L. Skeleton Master", with the pot-bellied skeleton and four of two different bearers. Those Andrew Chernak Fantasy-Lords-era skeletons are favourites of mine, except this palanquin has a big skull chair-back on it, which I think is pretty silly. I always imagined skeletons would just use the same implements they would have used when they were alive, not that they would ever spend time making new ones, especially putting skeleton-designs on them to show off how skeletony they are.

[Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye]

The Dozing Dragon painted this from my Tekumel range...



Here are the parts...



One has to drill out the base to hold the 100mm wire spears I supply as poles.

The Dark Fable Senet players make good palanquin riders.

http://heroesoftheage.blogspot.ca/2015/06/girls-und-palanquin.html

I did have a scheme to get some palanquins made but am currently too low on funds to pursue it. :-(

[Cacique Caribe]

Other than that, there was a great Aztec or Inca one whose manufacturer eludes me for the moment - Outpost maybe? It was really nicely sculpted but the it basically looked like four big lads taking an old guy for a walk in his bath. Made me laugh, anyway.

Did it look something like this Incan mummy litter?



http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/258/en/text/

There was also the Incan Pillcu Ranpa ("Scarlet Litter" - it was for battle so it didn't have a canopy):

http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/335/en/text/

And the Incan Quispu Ranpa ("Crystal Litter"):

http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/333/en/text/
http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/379/en/text/

Other Andean and Meso-American cultures had litters for their great leaders, both living and dead.  The Chimu/Sican people of the Peruvian coast took their kings to their final resting place in this fashion:



I started making one for Agueybana (a Cacique from Puerto Rico - in the Caribbean) a long time ago.  I have no idea which of my countless bins in the attic has that unfinished project:



PS.  I did find the link to the Outpost Pillcu Ranpa litters again, among others:


http://www.outpostwargameservices.co.uk/inca.html
http://ironwindmetals.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=3658
http://grapevine.com.au/~platypus01/safant/figures/sa_figures.html

[Alxbates]

Lots of good stuff here folks - thank you!  Keep it coming!

The old Necromancer being carried by beast men (demons, maybe?) is one that I just picked up off of Ebay.  It was nicely painted, but sadly arrived a bit beat up.  I'm gonna have to repaint parts of it:



But I love it.  It's exactly the sort of thing I'm thinking of having made.

[Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye]

Naismith...care of Dear Tony Blair... ;-)

[Dolmot]

Eureka, of course. 



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[Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye]

from...

http://gutenberg.readingroo.ms/3/9/3/4/39347/39347-h/39347-h.htm

[Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye]

Sanderson Greenwood & Ball...

[Hobby Services]

I'll admit to a weakness for the Slann Mage Priest models, whether carried by Suarus Temple Guards:



Or the more recent levitating version (which is maybe not a palanquin technically - do they need bearers?)



I even like the mummified Lord Kroak sculpt:



There's also these monstrosities from GW, again only sort of a palanquin:

[Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye]

Garrison Swords and Sorcery



As seen on this thread...

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=34030.0

[Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye]

[Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye]