Ral Partha Fund Their Veteran Dwarf Warband On Kickstarter
February 29, 2016 by brennon
Ral Partha have managed to fund a new set of Dwarves for you to use on the tabletop with their Veteran Warband Kickstarter. Five new sculpts are now available along with some stretch goals which have already been unlocked...
The idea is that this will give you a few more heroes to choose from when you're looking at making leaders for your warbands or indeed role-playing characters for other games. Each of them has a very different character to them (see more of the sculpts on the Kickstarter page) and they also have some nice additional models on the way.
The Dwarf Assassin is a pretty fun addition to their collection and it's nice to see them going a bit out there with the look of their Dwarves as well as keeping with the traditional designs. I don't really know in what context I'd use him but he does look good.
Last but not least we also have the Dwarf Wizard's Apprentice who is fishing around in his bag for ingredients to cast his spells. I think he looks great and could be a nice alternative if you're looking to build up a Dwarf warband for games like Frostgrave for example.
What do you think of these heroes?
"I think he looks great and could be a nice alternative if you're looking to build up a Dwarf warband for games like Frostgrave for example..."
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Those look rather nice.
Definitely love the frostgrave idea, the dwarf wizard is brilliant!
Why does an established company like Ral Partha need to resort to a Kickstarter? They’re not exactly a fledgling company looking to get heir foot in the door. What have they been doing for the last 30+ years to come up with new mini’s? Laziness as far as I’m concerned.
I backed my last Kickstarter last year, mostly on principle. I’d rather pay more for a finished model that is guaranteed to show up.
@cpauls1: you know nothing, jon snow. The name and assets of ral partha, who was the big american miniatures company before Gw and popular in the 70s and 80s, got sold and split up on several occations durin the 90s and 00s, and have done a merry dance as a dead unused name owned by several companies not primarily interested in the minis, such as fasa, topps and some equity fund. The production bits were in the 00s sold to former owners and established as iron wind metals. Only In recent years have they been able to reaquire the ral… Read more »
Very very tempting… You can’t have enough dwarves can you?
some very nice sculpts here … I’m getting lots of dwarves in the near future (Song of Blades: Hammer and Forge and Reaper Bones 3), but I’m still tempted by some of those.
Miniatures from the misty land of memory seem so much sweeter. These aren’t especially good sculpts (although they’re decent and full of character) but from that name and that enchanted pile of lead, nostalgia beckons…
These are far more like oldhammer citadel sculpts in both size and tone than the Tom Meier sculpts of old Ral Partha.
It must be said they are quite characterful, Expecially the teenage mutant ninja dwarf.
Old Ral Partha sculpts can be had through Iron Wind Metals.
I’m not actually sure who this company is, but I know that they aren’t the Ral Partha that had Tom Meier doing most of their sculpting.