tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831219200072513986.post4234528267565305693..comments2024-03-24T23:53:40.568-04:00Comments on In Places Deep: Miniature SuggestionsMirandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768774662263638305noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831219200072513986.post-65696050272925741772010-10-25T22:15:03.894-04:002010-10-25T22:15:03.894-04:00Perry Miniatures makes some excellent and reasonab...Perry Miniatures makes some excellent and reasonably priced War of the Roses plastic sets. Wargames factory sell packs of 32 vikings or anglosaxons for about $19 in the USA. Static Games in Glasgow stock them, they flog them for about £20 a pack and take orders by email or phone. You can see pictures of them on My Dangerous Brian blog. Just follow the painted miniatures label. If you're interested let me know and I'll post contact details for Static. Finally, Gripping Beast do an excellent range of Teutonic Knights on foot or mounted.Dangerous Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11494853825931603065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831219200072513986.post-39125145842223095302010-10-25T15:52:06.712-04:002010-10-25T15:52:06.712-04:00Man, I'm going to sound like a broken record b...Man, I'm going to sound like a broken record but trying one of the better plastic 1/72 manufacturers gives good options. The Russian company Zvezda has great sculpted ranges in nearly everything you are looking for except the fantasy ones (Caesar though has a fantasy 1/72 range). At $8-10 a box for 40-50 figures it ends up being cheaper even than the smaller metal ranges. <br /><br />If you want metal 28mm medieval and Dark Ages figures that are nice and reasonably priced I would try Gripping Beast and/or Old Glory.Chris Kutalikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01414743509426875792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831219200072513986.post-56262769311684936682010-10-25T14:50:26.586-04:002010-10-25T14:50:26.586-04:00I'd start with the forums at fanaticus.org ......I'd start with the forums at fanaticus.org ... there are a lot of threads discussing the pros and cons of different lines of historicals and fantasy figs at different scales. (It's a DBA/HotT site.)<br /><br />Historicals are easy at any scale, 10mm included. For fantasy figs in 10mm, your options are much more limited and you may find yourself taking what you can get.<br /><br />Warmaster Grave Guard from the Vampire Counts variant army may be your best bet for armored skellies in 10mm. I wouldn't hold my breath on pig-faced Orcs, but a variety of lines will serve if painted piggy-pink or flesh - no one's going to notice slight morphological differences in 10mm on the battlefield, and the GW Warmaster 10mm Orcs are at least pug-nosed.<br /><br />(I think I'm a reasonably good 10mm painter, and it still looks mainly like bits of color at the distance and in the numbers one usually deals with on the tabletop.)Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00155926145150934199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831219200072513986.post-52138043723725067312010-10-25T13:49:25.742-04:002010-10-25T13:49:25.742-04:00Otherworld Miniatures will do the pig-faced orcs f...Otherworld Miniatures will do the pig-faced orcs for you, although they only do them in one scale as far as I'm aware.thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.com