Weekender XLBS: Bespoke Miniatures Vs Masses Of Plastic?
April 16, 2017 by lloyd
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Happy Sunday! As Justin suggests I’m sat in bed drinking and drinking tea, it’s a damn fine start to a Sunday 🙂
Happy Sunday! I’ve stayed up and am watching as a fine way to end Saturday. 😀
How frustrating for @dignity , the skeletons are running around without pants and at the same time there is nothing there to be snipped! o_0 The worst of both worlds! 😉
Happy Easter Sunday!
Great show. If you want not cheap undead I would look at mierce miniatures and their jute range
Happy Sunday
Yep, in bed with brew and a bacon butty. Looking forward to the hobby night live.
@lloyd some nice zombie wolves with a lot more skeleton showing and pretty evil looking too.
http://www.gamezoneminiatures.com/tienda/en/vampires/311-lobos-zombis-iii.html
Justin, you’re wrong about the kanji. Or at least your partly wrong. Yes that is a Japanese character, but it’s also Chinese. Japanese has three different alphabets; hiragana, katakana and kanji. Kanji is characters borrowed from the Chinese writing system. They’re not much different to the Chinese originals, although sometimes theyll be slightly simplified and more boxy than the Chinese counterpart. The slightly more curved and flowing characters are hiragana, while katakana, used for foreign words, are more harsh and angular.
As a rabid fan of Bushido, I approve this message!
you beat me to it 😉 was just starting to write a similar explanation and luckyly i had the idea to look if someone was faster than me 😉
Happy Sunday! How much to pay for minis? Very much depends on the game and how much ‘character’ I need. For any mass rank / grouped unit game then as little as possible for the majority (as long as there’s some variety) but it’s always been nice to have a few characters worth investing a bit in; and by that I mean painting time as much as money. Nowadays I’m mostly into skirmish games (Malifaux, Infinity, GB) where every model is unique and usually has a specific role so well worth investing in. I used to get annoyed by pricing… Read more »
Also waiting for Rougarou, but Malifaux already has a bony (zombie) Chihuahua!
For 28mm historical I probably wouldn’t pay more than £1.50 for an infantry figure and that would be pushing the envelope.
@lloyd You might find something here that floats your boat especially if your on the Styx
Link might help. http://www.mirliton.it/index.php?cName=fantasy-2528mm-undead
@torros cool link, that’s full of models going to get a tea and a browse while stuffing my face with chocolate egg 🙂
@lloyd
Glad you found more choccy eggs after your naughty per Easter binge the other day
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When I buy troops, as in rank and file, I prefer to pay a reasonable price for a box of nice looking troops in plastic. Yet when it comes to commanders and individual pieces I’m prepared to pay more for a metal or resin miniature.
Having seen Lloyd’s skellies painted up, I’m tempted to make a small undead skellie army. Though I’d take skellies from various ranges. This is mainly because when I envisage a skeleton army I imagine undead troops from different periods and different armies. I already have some of the Mantic Skeletons.
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They are cool, i think there might be sprue or two kicking around the studio 🙂
Necromancer magic removes trousers precisely to stop them tripping over the kecks-round-the-ankles. It’s the second spell you learn.
Lesson 1: raise dead, lesson 2: debag skellies.
Bespoke every time, also because it’s less to assemble and paint! Lol. I’d rather my cabinet with lots of individual models than just full of what is basically the same model.
But @deaddave how do you get time to paint them with your Hollywood commitments 😉 Also did you get a chance to paint your own model?
between takes obviously.
So says Mr. Hollywood ;-p
Happy Easter / Holidays Dave
Happy Easter Sunday all!
Good show all thank you.
@Lloyd Those Skeletons you are painting really look amazing!! Great job!
Bespoke all the time only because I lack the will power to paint the same thing over and over, can count the number of finished squads/units (@28 mm) on one hand I have managed in 20 odd years..
I’m putting my Saga war band together V&V Miniatures… pricey but very nice.
http://vminiatures.com/28-mm/vikings/
@cousins286 I’ve seen these pop up a few times but didn’t realise how well rounded out the range had got. Thanks for the link, your bands going to look amazing.
Happy sunday
@lloyd beautiful painted minis, I like the frosted look it feels fitting and I get the white walker theme.
For sci-fi skeletons use space marines with skulls instead of helmets, you can’t see the rest because of the armour. Or any other really armoured model.
Yeah I think a custom conversion set would be the way to go.
Happy Sunday! Great video guys thanks. I have to admit that while I sometimes look at prices and think that they are ridiculous, I tend to buy the models I really want regardless of cost. What usually happens for me is I buy cheap stuff to fill out an army, the expensive ones I take a shine to, I just buy less of those and spend more time painting them, creating a focal point for the army itself. A good example would be using perry miniatures for the majority of my old empire army, and a mix of GW, forgeworld… Read more »
Bring out yer dead
Happy Easter Time / Holidays to team Beasts and all the Backstage crew.
Peace out. Y’all
bring out the dead that is a bloody good name 🙂
Lloyd…”Skellies and Trains and Vikings, oh my!”
at least he’s diversifying
Looking forward to your hobby night live. What about game demos or army building and the methods used to achieve a successful build. How to customize your army to take on the different army types you may face. Scratch building and how to make them fit into your armies theme.
when you were talking skeletons I was thinking about was Mierce, best skeletons on the market. while your at it their wraiths are amazing and Warren need look no further than mierce for his Vikings too. definitely malifaux for the dogs, they’re zombie dogs but they’re the nicest out there and there are more than the ones you showed. all about quality over quantity for me. a display cabinet with stunning characterful sculpts, beautifully based amongst themed terrain is so much sexier than a discordant mass of cheap miniatures you’ve blasted through. you’re a good enough painter to go that… Read more »