"What area of Fantasy 28mm is under or un served right now?" Topic

Is there any area of 28mm miniatures that you feel are un or under served at the moment? What figures would you really like to see that simply aren't out there right now for Fantasy miniatures?

Or are we in the super golden age where nearly all is currently available?

Undead non-humans. Everyone makes undead humans, but rarely do you see good undead orcs, beastmen, etc.

GW had the one unit of Dogs of War guys but that was about it.

I've always wanted to see Chitin-esque bugs in 28mm. Strictly speaking, that's sci-fi, not horror or fantasy, but they could be used in either setting. Archive did one decades ago, and called it a Krushaugga:

More versions of the core races--Not human, elf, dwarf, or halfling

Male and Female versions of Gnomes, Dragonborn, Tiefling--straight out of the core D&D races--not to mention how many other source books are out there for playable PC types

jpattern2@ have you considered Foundry's T'lekkan

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Aztec frog warriors……….

Tiefling, D&D core race… How things have changed…

Thanks for that, Prince R. Some of those will work. I'll probably convert them to have smaller claws, though.

Non-European fantasy tropes can be hard to find, usually you have to go to several sources to piece something together, the Dragon Kings line being excepted (but there's still room for more Chinese fantasy). So African fantasy (10mm seems to have the most to date), Indian fantasy, Chinese fantasy, Japanese fantasy (15mm has more), etc.

Low level human thugs, street gangs, toughs, etc

Halings and Goblins in non European costumes. I like to think the world was populated by these two races before the big folk drive them out. Therefore you can find remnants of them in wilder places of the world. Hidden glades, swamps, in deep woods and so on.

Bob

Some decent, proper 28mm Game of Thrones figures!

Human street thugs, simple clothing and cheap weapons: knife, hatchet, boat hook. They can work both for fantasy RPG's and historical skirmishes.

Seconding the street criminals.

I'd like to see a good, non Tolkien elf line. I like Thunderbolt Mountain's elves, but the line is limited, and they are in 30mm ( I prefer 25-28mm true scale).

The only broad ranges of elves are GW, Mantic and Lotr, and the GW high elves just look to Middle Eastern/Persian, the wood elves are too barbaric. Mantic's line….the skinny waists and the fact that they reused the spearmen bodies for archers, meaning none of them are shooting…and then reused the right hand holding bow arms for the scouts ruins the line. LOTR figures are ok, but too recognizeable and GW dropped the ball….since Hobbit figures didn't do well they didn't do plastics for the last movie..which had the big battle scenes and would have sold a ton of mass combat elves and dwarves. The wood elves from BoFA were magnifcent…but 3 for 25dollars is cost prohibitive.

Another vote for MesoAmerican amphibians! And I say do it right, and include not just rainforest frog species, but caimans, chameleons, salamanders, and lizards and such representing the various subject races of the great Empire of the Bringer of Rain.

African style fantasy would also be most welcome, however one based upon some deeper research into African history, mythology, and weaponry than merely watching reruns of Zulu and Zulu Dawn (and I happen to be very fond of things Zulu).

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
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More lizard men types in 28mm

Civilized Lizardmen types.
Insect peoples.

Quetzalcoatl without the erroneous wings.

+1 the chitinous bugs. Good for fantasy and sci-fi. Reaper have a few, but they are too mantis-like for my tastes. Defiance Games had perfect concepts, but we know how that ended.