Justin and I Ask What Has Armorcast Been Smoking?
January 25, 2013 by dracs
Ok, I know this isn't really news, but I wanted to share it with you guys anyway. While researching the previous article Justin and I came across a couple of minis in Armorcast's range that raised a few eyebrows.
It started off with Justin finding these.
Simple enough, quite nice sculpts which would actually be very useful as objective markers in a game.
Then my eye drifted down the page and came across this.
Gah! It's like something Warren might wear to make Justin hurry with the editing!
However, the all time winner for what has to be the strangest ever miniature I have come across has to be this one that Justin found.
It's an anime girl shooting hamsters out of a grenade launcher! I challenge you to find something more bizarre.
At first I wondered why anyone would do this and then I remembered: Japan.
Go forth and find a miniature even more wacky than this one! This I do task ye with.
It’s sailor moon! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fc/Sailor_Moon_%281st_uniform%29.png/220px-Sailor_Moon_%281st_uniform%29.png
Must be the same stuff Matt Ward uses.
WARHAMSTER!!!
Funny how the anime-realistic combo makes her really just bug-eyed. 😎
Well, there is that one, which is a close second…
http://www.greebo.it/public/oscommerce2/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=33_42&products_id=317
And they also have a penguin berserker.
Ammon miniatures also has designs that are rather… quirky…
Mr. Jingles is a major character in the Spinespur minis game. Tom Meier sculpted the anime girl with hamster gun years ago. He sold them as limited resin pieces at first before Armorcast bought the molds, I believe.
A hamster gun is weird but Mr jingles is the winner for me. He’s so wrong he’s almost back to being cool.
Lol, I like how you can just make out the other hamsters faces in the loader and she also has a bandolier with more hamsters.
ADLS + insane amount of echi manga! This is pretty normal for me anyway…
If there is a problem with that gun it will make some flowers pop out of the barrel because you get tulips from hamster jam.
Even more weird:
http://www.comfychairgames.com/catalog/jingles%20extreeeeeme!.jpg