New Fantasy Rangers by Scotia Grendal Productions
December 11, 2014 by stvitusdancern
Scotia Grendal Productions has announced the release of some what they are calling rangers for fantasy. I for one love rangers, love them! They are my all time favorite fantasy character, especially elf rangers. Some of the coolest characters of all time have been rangers, Aragorn being one of them, need I say more (yes, I know he's human, but he still is one awesome dude!)?
I play rangers in D&D all the time, currently have a female elf ranger who is watching the silly humans decide what to do next. Anyhow, I digress, these new miniatures from Scotia Grendel Productions, look pretty interesting and when I first came across the title, I was a little surprised when I saw the pictures and story.
You, see when I saw the title on the web page it says Western Rangers and I was thinking Texas Rangers (another personal favorite of mine). Anyhow, there are several different iterations of these fantasy rangers to include a hero, command and assorted other packs. The detail on them is nice, but what is with the masked figures? It says in the description you can use them as road bandits, but for me I rather play my rangers on the side of good and being an expert in field craft and combat.
What do you think? Are these rangers for you?
Very nice
Grendel and Scotia did some great stuff back in the day, their Kyromek range was excellent,
I think the GW wood elves make far better rangers. And they’re poseable, which is another plus. I’m just seeing the 80’s in these.
And when I say GW wood elves, I mean the older glade guard, not the new junk.
Those are actually rather good.
Nothing wrong with figures from the 80’s 😉
A friend and me are going to be building a couple of fantasy armies only using figures that were produced before 1990. Hopefully it will be mostly 70’s figures but the project will be interesting
I got a lot of the old Grenadier range from Discount Hobby. It was an Ebay store. He had the rights to most of the range, but I don’t know where he’s gone to, or if he sold all his molds. Used to be very cheap. Even six years ago I was getting metal infantry mini’s for $1 and cavalry for $2 from him.
Also, I have 72 Grenadier orcs from the 70’s. They’re pikemen. I bought newer ones. Interested?
I can get you one tonight, or at some point this weekend. Can we put attachments on the e-mail here?
Maybe….Do you have any pictures of them?
Ooops. Wrong place. I can get you a pic tonight, or this weekend. I also have a lot of Grenadier rangers, come to think of it, 36, all the same mold. Not painted. I went with the GW ones instead.
Might be better if we continue this by PM’s instead
I rather like these. Granted, they’re a bit static (some of the archers on the site look as if they are trying to shoot from the hip), but they definitely have that old-school vibe that makes me nostalgic for classic Mithril and Ral Partha. These would go great in an long-running MERP campaign I’m currently in. And yes, I also play a ranger.