"Ok was it a dream or is any of this real?" Topic

Last night I had an odd dream. In it I was fiddling around with some "toys" and want to know if they are real, imagined, or something in between.

dream backgound
In the dream I was a bit of a Brothers Grimm(movie) scammer who was going into little backwoods villages and bilking them of their little food, hot water boiled for a bath, and the few coins they had(well on completion I would get that). I wore a well worn tall stovepipe hat, a large trench-coat, dark leather with brass buttons and bits, bit of a preacher/fanatical look. Stern faced and I hunted the undead and spirits. In that, I hunted what the townsfolk thought were spirits but I knew was just myth. Until real stuff was out there like in the dream.

Toys in questions
I pulled out a box of items to show my "plan" to the townspeople and the basis of my real question here.

The box was fill with hard clear plastic miniatures. They seemed to be hard jewel plastic in a myrid of colors. They seemed to be about 1:72 in scale at least lanky and realistic proportions. I spotted a mummy, a few wolves, a pile of villagers with and without hats armed with torches, pitchforks, and rifles of some sort. a couple of other gribblies that I really cannot remember well(one was a lion type thing with a huge bearded neck)

The biggest and most interesting thing to me, assembled in clear yellow plastic, was a bit of a run down barn. It had molded into it boards that were slipping down exposing the interior.

picture a bit like this but the boards were going left to right instead of up and down as seen in the picture.

So is this complete dream stuffs, or some sort of 70's curse of the mummy play-set I might have seen trolling around the webs over the years?

Lastly should it not exists where would be a good place to look for miniatures to play this? I was a bit of a Abraham Lincoln meets Van Helsing in look. The people were backwoods hick types but could have been post Napoleonic, to almost depression era. Scale wise I am open to anything.

No more spicey food before bed for you dood.

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This is why I don't watch horror movies…

Were you wearing pants?

I had a dream that I was sitting and painting in my hobby room,and the roof started leaking on my head.

If it weren't a dream, somebody would have complained about the poorly proportioned miniatures or the crappy rules.

Sorry dropzonetoe, but your set up is just too hard to resist! I've only seen clear "ghost" type miniatures, not everything done as clear. Are you after clear miniatures, or painting techniques that give the impression of ghostliness?

- Bob

Lastly should it not exists where would be a good place to look for miniatures to play this? I was a bit of a Abraham Lincoln meets Van Helsing in look. The people were backwoods hick types but could have been post Napoleonic, to almost depression era. Scale wise I am open to anything.

Isn't this Chaos in Carpathia?

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Bob,

Well as I dreamed them they were in that old transparent plastic(red, yellow, green,and blue). I was interested first off if they were real as I dreamed it.

I woke thinking it had to be part of a set I had as a kid, or saw in the back pages of one of my comic books for sale along with swamp thing models, and battle for hoth play-sets. If not there I saw them online in some classic toy site or on ebay.

I don't really need them in plastic at all, the idea of converting a Van Lincoln figure has my creative juices flowing right now, and I have been trolling through pulp, civil war, and gothic undead lines trying to find some fodder to convert to make him. But then I would need suitable figure for the townsfolk, and the spirits/wolves and such that are after them.

The big part that makes me think that it was a real set is the plastic barn. It was that type of item that kind of made it seem like something that would have been all bundled togeather.

Oh and pants were involved throughout! :)

Did you have any cheese before bed.Alas most people dream of GW armies :) though.

BTW check these sets out probably most of the figures you are looking for link

I rember somebody cast Predator and 'ghosty' figures in clear plastic and GW did a Balrog as a one-off special that lit up from the inside – if that doesn't give you nightmares…

Dude!

Well no odd dreams last night, but I am having trouble finding a 28mmish Abraham Lincoln to chop off his head to work on my conversion.

Thanks for the links above as I have been looking through them and will be picking up a set!

-DZT

dropzonetoe, Critterette will be by after you finish The Lincoln Conversion.
You are in a witness relocation project and your personality overlay is slipping.
We will re-establish your cover persona, and the dreams will stop.
Post pictures of the conversion first though!

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