bogdanwaz | 07 Apr 2011 5:57 a.m. PST |
Anybody have any ideas for 28mm figures for running a game based on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? I don't know of any Napoleanic/Regency era civilian especially female figures for the Bennett sisters. There are of course a ton of Victorian figures and some 18th century figures but they neither of them have the right look for female gowns of the era. |
A Twiningham | 07 Apr 2011 6:11 a.m. PST |
These are slightly earlier, but the closest I can think os. link |
John the OFM | 07 Apr 2011 6:53 a.m. PST |
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ComradeCommissar | 07 Apr 2011 7:28 a.m. PST |
Sadly, there are not any figures available that would work well for P&P&Z. The lack of available figures kind of killed my attempt at gaming the book last year. Maybe someone could suggest it for Eureka's 100 Club? Of course, if you aren't terribly picky about Regency era gowns, Brigade Games do have some nice swashbucklin' ladies: link link |
Mulligan | 07 Apr 2011 8:03 a.m. PST |
I have a quick question. In planning a game like this, are you going to require the players to have read the book? (Actually, in this case, the players might get more out of it if they've read both books--the parody and its source.) Mulligan While I am personally a bit zombied out, this particular game does sound like the ideal kind of scenario to lure people toward skirmish gaming who might not otherwise be interested. |
GoGators | 07 Apr 2011 8:28 a.m. PST |
Those look like they would be better for Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. |
malcolmmccallum | 07 Apr 2011 8:47 a.m. PST |
Making anybody read P&P&Z is cruel and unethical. |
Mulligan | 07 Apr 2011 9:22 a.m. PST |
I know in 54 mm there are at least a couple of Napoleonic Josephine figures. I would be astonished if there are no Josephine figures in 28 mm. Josephine and one of her ladies in waiting might work. Mulligan |
J Womack 94 | 07 Apr 2011 12:56 p.m. PST |
Mal: reading Pride and Prejudice is cruel. REading it with zombies made it smoewhat more palatable. |
malcolmmccallum | 07 Apr 2011 1:55 p.m. PST |
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J Womack 94 | 07 Apr 2011 2:08 p.m. PST |
I prefer to be classed as a "Hun," thank you very much. |
Bobgnar | 07 Apr 2011 6:50 p.m. PST |
I have gotten a number of useful turn of the century (1780-1820) ladies from various West Wind sets, such as Vampire Wars link and Headless Horseman. Styles changed over that time, but maybe ladies attire would not be as noticeable as military uniforms -- tricorn to shako. The ladies would need to take up arms against the undead, and many of the WW figs have knives and other hand weapons. It is a great idea, keep us posted. |
Etranger | 07 Apr 2011 7:51 p.m. PST |
Anything in Eureka's 'Civilians' range that mught suit your purposes? link |
SJDonovan | 07 Apr 2011 11:28 p.m. PST |
Minifigs do a couple of 25mm figures in early 19th century dress. The camp followers set also contains figures suitable for the lower orders: link |
Footslogger | 08 Apr 2011 12:09 a.m. PST |
Ended up converting my own Regency era ladies. Nothing out there. I used Hasslefree zombie hunters, suitably reclad, so kind of appropriate – even if my ladies will never actually hunt a zombie. |
abdul666lw | 08 Apr 2011 1:43 a.m. PST |
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abdul666lw | 08 Apr 2011 4:30 a.m. PST |
The new Warlord / Black Powder 'Napoleonic vivandiere' link is in rather 'active' pose and available with a pistol, but wears 'low class' dresses (though, to go zombie-hunting
). Yet the characteristic keg is rather embarrassing, unless full of Holy Water? The whole idea sounds intriguing and enjoyable. Keep us informed, please! And, you *should* really open a blog
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abdul666lw | 08 Apr 2011 7:38 a.m. PST |
Keira Knightley notwithstanding -sorry- I had to Wiki (and then Google for images) for both the original and the parody -and the later at least looks full of potential fun. picture Now, there is a far wider choice of minis for the first 2/3 of the 18th C. (for 'fighting ladies in 25-28mm, some 27 ranges offer 'female pirates'; and most manufacturers of WSS -> SYW military figures do at least a few 'civilians', some armed in e.g. FIW ranges). Is it really impossible to push back the story some 40-50 years back in time? "The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England.": were they significantly different by Barry Lyndon times?
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Footslogger | 08 Apr 2011 9:46 a.m. PST |
Sinca you ask, abdul666lw. picture Apologies to those who've seen this before. |
abdul666lw | 08 Apr 2011 10:01 a.m. PST |
Footslogger: great conversions, perfectly 'in period' -the 'hussarette' is specially
impressive: deadly but lovely
(and, except -for the nitpicking hairsplitter- for the plume of the front of the colback rather than on the side, would grace a Lace Wars Imagi-Nary army). I'm sure Sharp Practice can be used for re-enacting the adventures of Brigadier Gerard, for a change of perspective. |
abdul666lw | 11 Apr 2011 5:06 a.m. PST |
Do you have really to abide precisely to the book's time frame (you have a lot of AWI minis)? Of course with a shift of a few decades the literary reference becomes less obvious, but the 'fun' comes from the 'cultural shock' between 'the landed gentry of early 19th-century England' and Zombies (and a Miss from that class moonlighting as a super-ninja / 'Alice'). The mentality / prejudices / way of life of English countryside gentry probably did not change much between 1740 and 1850, I suspect. Thus, if a shift of 1/2 century back greatly facilitates the preparation of the game (a forward shift would carry you to 'mainstream' VSF, far less original a setting)
. We had a somewhat similar problem when Chaosium published 'Call of Cthulhu': since the novels were set in the 1920 the RPG adventures had to take place in that timeframe. For me a blatant case of fidelity to the *letter* rather than the *spirit* of the 'Canonical Texts'. What made HPL's novels so impressive was that they were contemporary to the reader, so a more faithful transcription in a game would have the 'journeys into madness' taking place nowadays. Then there are already a multitude of contemporary zombies in movies, video games, miniature games -but the 18th C. is still almost unexploited (almost: several very promising projects mentioned on TMP rather recently).
Btw I maintain that one does not need to buy any 'zombie' mini (sorry, manufacturers!): movie zombies are generally 'chorus extras' with an appropriate make-up. Thus, buy 'normal' minis and 'zombify' them -and that's the only way to have zombie in 'period dress'. A matter of carving tears in the clothes, wounds, pustules, scars in the skin, mutilations of the lips, grooves around the eyeballs
with wire cutter, nail pincer, pin point (the kind of mistreatment the Hinterland sculptor used to 'zombify' his female hussars). Then it's a question of appropriate(ly disgusting) painting and 'weathering'. I got interesting 'freshly unearthed' results with dried prunes 'reinflated' in boiling tea, mashed, filtered, thickened with honey / egg white, 'inking' with (or dripping in) this syrup: when dried, the plant miniparticles, while almost imperceptible with the naked eye, gave a 'texture' that no ink / paint could have provided. |
Old Slow Trot | 11 Apr 2011 6:40 a.m. PST |
Looking forward to seeing Elizabeth Bennett knocking off some zombies. ;^) |
Footslogger | 11 Apr 2011 8:18 a.m. PST |
I'm not saying I WOULD make some PP&Z Bennet sisters but IF I ever did, what do you think their zombie-killing weapons of choice would be? Croquet mallets? Blunderbusses? "dried prunes 'reinflated' in boiling tea" – revolting, and what a criminal desecration of decent tea. Give me a real zombie any time. |
bogdanwaz | 11 Apr 2011 10:43 a.m. PST |
In P&P&Z, the Bennett sister have been trained in martial arts in China to be better able to fight the Strange Plague. Mr. D'arcy, along with his aunt, were trained in Japan. The book mentions the extensive use of katanas. The sisters also use muskets in several scenes and Mr. D'arcy uses a double-barrel shotgun in another. So, any sort of eastern martial arts weapons would be appropriate in addition to early 19th century fire-arms. But I do like the idea of croquet mallets. Thanks to all for your thoughts. |
abdul666lw | 11 Apr 2011 12:01 p.m. PST |
Seemingly a prequel novel -'Dawn of the Dreadful' by Steve Hockensmith- benefits from a video promotional teaser: YouTube link *Amusing* and potentially inspirational. |
CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 11 Apr 2011 2:06 p.m. PST |
respect Footslogger. Nice conversion work. I was forced to read PERSUASION for A-level, I'm sure some sort of horror could only have improved it. |
CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 11 Apr 2011 2:34 p.m. PST |
link Oh I forgot this range- early C19th – any use? |
abdul666lw | 12 Apr 2011 6:21 a.m. PST |
What about throwing in a few rumal-wielding Kali worshippers? |
abdul666lw | 12 Apr 2011 8:02 a.m. PST |
OK, OK, maybe I'm obsessed with the 18th C., but imagine an irruption of zombies there: picture -or in any of Watteau's or Fragonard's painting
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Pauls Bods | 21 Apr 2011 5:06 a.m. PST |
Those blue moon minis look very nice
just what I am looking for..IŽll have see if they are availble in Europe
Cheers paul @ abdul666lw
..flashing blade ;-D |
abdul666lw | 21 Apr 2011 6:18 a.m. PST |
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Zombie Ad | 22 Apr 2011 9:28 a.m. PST |
Interesting idea, methinks that headswapping might be the order of the day. |
abdul666lw | 04 Jun 2011 9:57 a.m. PST |
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mmitchell | 05 Jun 2011 4:34 a.m. PST |
Look around and see if you can find any of the MAGE, WEREWOLF or VAMPIRE minis. They turn up in bargain bins all the time. There are a surprising number of figures in those ranges that could be used with just a little work (some of them have Steampunk elements that can easily be removed or puttied over). |
TheBeast | 05 Jun 2011 8:46 a.m. PST |
Have a box in the pile back at home, and never opened to have a good look, but would either of the lasses from Flintloque's Lady Wintermore's Fangs Box be possibly usable? Nappy inspired, but for some reason, I'm thinking high bodiced. Doug |