Definately inspired, as the review over at PSR says, from the LotR films.
First up the swordsmen. Three grunts and the boss. The archers. The two on the right of the top pic are females. All the bods in the set are pretty heavily armed, most have at least a dagger and a sword, even the archers and most carry bags, sacks and two thier cloaks rolled up on thier backs.Some of them wear a layer of gambeson, leather jerkin and chainmail and presumably a cloth shirt underneath as well!!
TBH, a nice set and it even allows for conversion possibilities.
Heads swopped, shields removed and replaced with card ones. Not exactly 100% medieval, they are dressed more like the types who inhabit medieval fairs, but could be used in a loose medieval setting or as members of the Esgarothym common soldiery.Now there´s an idea for those at Dark Alliance... Esgarothym guard and a town militia. Call them Water folk or something similar. Another one would be for them to create a set (or maybe two) of halflings. One set of Halfling travellers / adventurers and another of town guard.....maybe two sets of town guard..one with lots of archers and slingers, another with pitchforks, flails, a couple with swords (large knives) and clubs.
............and a set of halfling civvies...which would give me an excuse to create a couple of hobbit holes.
And a set of Mûmakils (they could call them "Mamoth riders"), another one of Ents (could be called "Tree Folk" or "Tree Monsters" or "Tree Giants"). Also a set of Gondor and Rohan Civilians (would be nice to get more medieval peasants!)
ReplyDeleteAaaand an idea for Strelets: release a Landsknecht set (would love to see Landsknechts made in the Strelets style!!)
Great ideas :-)
DeleteFor me this box is the best so far. Those minis are great and may have many uses, for example to play Rangers of the Shadow Deep, which I did. BTW, I admire your skill and patience to string those bows! Cheers
ReplyDeleteThey are good..I like that they have tons of extra weapons and baggage.
DeleteAdding strings is not as difficult as it seems. I did a "how to a long while back...here;
https://paulsbods.blogspot.com/2010/10/bowstrings-in-172nd.html
The only problem with adding Bowstrings....once one has done it to the first..those after dont look right without them
DeleteExactly! ;-)
DeleteGreat figures, Paul!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ray :-) 1/72nd and 28mm Figure makers (except the "pay a fortune for the printfiles" ones) are missing a part of the market. They should offer thier ranges in both of the main wargaming scales. ...and 15mm as well. I´d definately get most of the dark Alliance bods in 28mm.
ReplyDeleteDark/Light Alliance figs are great aren't they? As you said, plenty of character and detail and unique topics.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes, James