Tango01 | 30 Sep 2014 11:05 p.m. PST |
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Zargon | 30 Sep 2014 11:21 p.m. PST |
Pure pure brilliance. As always Bob brings it home. I see a Turok- Dinosaur Hunter game in the future. Bob? You listening? Cheers |
Marianas Gamer | 01 Oct 2014 2:56 a.m. PST |
Love the sculpts but I really do wonder about the flaked stone spear points. Late prehistoric/Contact Period sites are pretty much defined by Levanna and Madison points and the relevant pottery of course. I have worked on a number of them myself and have never found the large formal bifaces like on these sculpts. Contact Period you could have copper or brass points cut out of trade kettles though. |
Sobieski | 01 Oct 2014 4:16 a.m. PST |
They look American to me…. |
FreemanL | 01 Oct 2014 5:10 a.m. PST |
Saw these painted up at Historicon this year and they are utterly brilliant. Not only is Bob a talented sculptor, he is crazy good with a brush as well. Larry |
Lee Brilleaux | 01 Oct 2014 6:21 a.m. PST |
These are for Bob's 'Flint and Feather' project, which covers the wars between the Iroquois and Huron peoples in the 1640s. The Beta version of the rules will be available for playtesting very shortly. |
John the OFM | 01 Oct 2014 8:55 a.m. PST |
I haven't seen armored Indians since RAFM. Didn't Bob do those as well? I like them, but in today's market they are just so darned tiny. Not that I haven't used them recently with their bigger cousins. Indians are like militia. You always need the new ones that cone out and you never have enough. |
Cyrus the Great | 01 Oct 2014 10:37 a.m. PST |
Didn't Bob do those as well? Yes, he did. |
Tango01 | 01 Oct 2014 10:38 a.m. PST |
Happy you like them boys! (smile) Amicalement Armand |
zippyfusenet | 01 Oct 2014 10:44 a.m. PST |
There are a couple of warriors wearing armor among the Foundry 16th-17th century Indians, though one of them totes a musket. Plainfield Miniatures has one in wooden armor in their King Phillip's War line. Eureka has one sculpt in their Powhatan line who is wearing a full suit of woven wooden rods, helmet and shield – he's really an Iroquoian, not a Powhatan at all. But in general, it's hard to find armored Indian sculpts. And I need so many of them for Beaver Wars, Wars of Iroquois Unification, Tallega Wars, Battle of Mabila… Yes, Bob Murch created the original Rafm Flint & Feather sculpts. I still use them, along with many other Old School figures. I'm real happy to see new ones coming out. Did someone say 'Flint and Feather Rules'? I have a couple of playtest credits, wouldn't mind adding another. I have the figures. |
John the OFM | 01 Oct 2014 11:22 a.m. PST |
Yes, I have the figures too… hint hint As for the Foundry figures, I bought about 50 on eBay and they turned out to be pirated recasts. Tiny, multiple mold lines, missing bases, tinny sound when clanked together… It was from a shop that sold Pirate gear and it was the only miniatures he was selling. Can't blame him for that. I gave them away to someone. |
zippyfusenet | 01 Oct 2014 12:35 p.m. PST |
Mmm, yeah, I remember you beat me out on that Ebay auction, John. Sorry you wound up hosed. The Foundry sculpts are back in production and you can get fresh new castings from the factory. |
Lee Brilleaux | 01 Oct 2014 2:07 p.m. PST |
Roderick Robertson and I have the rules ready to go. I just need to put together a QRS today. |
Berzerker73 | 01 Oct 2014 7:02 p.m. PST |
Love the sculpts! When will they available for purchase? |
Tango01 | 02 Oct 2014 10:53 a.m. PST |
Glad you like them too boys!. (smile) Amicalement Armand |
mghFond | 03 Oct 2014 10:56 a.m. PST |
Not really the right geographic area but Eureka has Tlingit Indians in wooden armor with really cool animal and monster heads…also 15mm. So at least someone else does make Indians in armor. I'm using the Tlingits with the rules set Irregular Wars and as a matter of fact running my first game of it tomorrow evening with the local group. |
Bob Murch | 10 Oct 2014 9:52 p.m. PST |
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zippyfusenet | 11 Oct 2014 1:31 p.m. PST |
You made me cry again, Bob. Great sculpts, great painting. And these breech-clouts are certainly *not* trade cloth. Have you read the Gears' People of the Longhouse novels? It's a four-parter, their re-telling of the Peacemaker story. I would love to see the main personality figures from those novels represented in 28mm metal. |
Bob Murch | 11 Oct 2014 1:59 p.m. PST |
No, but I will look into it! |
zippyfusenet | 11 Oct 2014 2:08 p.m. PST |
link People of the Longhouse, The Dawn Country, The Broken Land, People of the Black Sun |