"Any 28mm 'Eloi' Candidates Out There?" Topic

Males and females, in simple tunics like these:

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Thanks.

CC

They almost look like these Cretan archers, but I would prefer something without bows:

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Maybe some type of fantasy figure, like civilian elf.

Mysterioso,

Civilian elf? Do you suggest a specific manufacturer?

Thanks.

CC

Hi CC,

They look like dorks wih bowl cuts…

Seems like Medieval monks (Was it called a tonsure if my memory serves?) or Dr. Who figures would have something similar…

Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.

"They look like dorks wih bowl cuts…"

I agree.

"Seems like Medieval monks (Was it called a tonsure if my memory serves?)"

I looked at some medieval monks too, though I would like a few females in similar attire and without covered heads.

CC

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Like the cretan archers I'd look at unarmoured (but not nude) Greeks. Then do head and arm swaps. For "bowl cut" heads use non helmeted Normans.

I didn't say it would be easy (or cheap).

Ralph

Ralph,

Thanks!!! If I go that route for the male Eloi, I might go with these packs as well:

WG 8/7:
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WG 3/7: link
WG 1/7:
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For female Eloi, I have absolutely NO idea!!!

CC

More (and better) Eloi images here:

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CC

Foundry Nymphs and some Green Stuff?

CC:

Sorry, I don't. Don't really look at fantasy miniatures too much. My suggestion was more for a direction in which way to look.

Maybe the GW LOTR stuff has elves in simple robes that could be Eloi?

Better would be something from a fantasy line that resembled the Gelfings from Henson's The Dark Crystal.

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Mysterioso

Greek female civilians. Or any Anicents female civilians.

Foundry Thracian women, some egytian women too perhaps.
Crusader has very nice dark age Irish women.

Those are the closest I can think of.

If I recall correctly, from H. G. Wells' description, Eloi are NOT human, merely human in appearance. Their numerous issues make them the fast food of the day. So, perhaps a more chunky figurine might be more appropriate. Along with the sign: "Eloi: the other white meat!"

Dear CC,

Here is a link to Steve Barber Models. He has made some Gladiator spectators that might fit the bill. I think I'll be buying some soon for my arena.

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As always at your service,

Colonel Hairy Haggis

If Eloi are bred for meat, I wonder if there could be other kinds of Eloi like giants for feasts or midgets for single servings?

I wonder why nobody has ever bought the rights to produce more sf&f movie creatures like Eloi or Morlocks?

Me, I'm still waiting for Creatures from the Black Lagoon and Sleestaks.

Here is the very first description of the Eloi (at the end of Chapter 3).

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In a circular opening, high up in the wall of the nearer house, I saw a group of figures clad in rich soft robes. They had seen me, and their faces were directed towards me.

Then I heard voices approaching me. Coming through the bushes by the White Sphinx were the heads and shoulders of men running. One of these emerged in a pathway leading straight to the little lawn upon which I stood with my machine. He was a slight creature – perhaps four feet high – clad in a purple tunic, girdled at the waist with a leather belt. Sandals or buskins – I could not clearly distinguish which – were on his feet; his legs were bare to the knees, and his head was bare. Noticing that, I noticed for the first time how warm the air was.

He struck me as being a very beautiful and graceful creature, but indescribably frail. His flushed face reminded me of the more beautiful kind of consumptive – that hectic beauty of which we used to hear so much. At the sight of him I suddenly regained confidence. I took my hands from the machine.

More physical descriptions from Chapter 4.

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In another moment we were standing face to face, I and this fragile thing out of futurity. He came straight up to me and laughed into my eyes. The absence from his bearing of any sign of fear struck me at once. Then he turned to the two others who were following him and spoke to them in a strange and very sweet and liquid tongue.

There were others coming, and presently a little group of perhaps eight or ten of these exquisite creatures were about me. One of them addressed me. It came into my head, oddly enough, that my voice was too harsh and deep for them. So I shook my head, and, pointing to my ears, shook it again. He came a step forward, hesitated, and then touched my hand. Then I felt other soft little tentacles upon my back and shoulders. They wanted to make sure I was real. There was nothing in this at all alarming. Indeed, there was something in these pretty little people that inspired confidence – a graceful gentleness, a certain childlike ease. And besides, they looked so frail that I could fancy myself flinging the whole dozen of them about like nine-pins . . .

And then, looking more nearly into their features, I saw some further peculiarities in their Dresden-china type of prettiness. Their hair, which was uniformly curly, came to a sharp end at the neck and cheek; there was not the faintest suggestion of it on the face, and their ears were singularly minute. The mouths were small, with bright red, rather thin lips, and the little chins ran to a point. The eyes were large and mild; and – this may seem egotism on my part – I fancied even that there was a certain lack of the interest I might have expected in them . . .

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I guess that the two girls in this pack might work as female Eloi:

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What do you guys think?

CC

Oh, Weena . . . (sigh)

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Weena, one more time:

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How about these guys for an Eloi resistance team?

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The first recruit for the Eloi resistance force:

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Man, I love that flick:

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CC

That is a fun film to watch.

Michael