YogiBearMinis  | 22 Nov 2019 4:41 p.m. PST |
How do the Tom Meier Thunderbolt elves compare to the old Ral Partha Elves he sculpted? Can they work together? The Thunderbolt are definitely true 25mm in size compared to other fantasy ranges, which leads me to believe they might work with the RP Chaos Wars Elves or other RP Elves. |
| Andy Skinner | 22 Nov 2019 5:22 p.m. PST |
I thought the later elves were bigger, even 28mm. andy |
| Kropotkin303 | 22 Nov 2019 5:28 p.m. PST |
Ditto that. Original TM Ral Partha elves are true 25mm. Thunderbolt are larger. |
John Leahy  | 22 Nov 2019 6:28 p.m. PST |
Taller but the Thunderbolt have a light heft. |
| Lucius | 22 Nov 2019 8:02 p.m. PST |
They are both great, but they don't share a table, much less a unit. Stylistically, anatomically, and proportionaly, they aren't a match. The real issue is that the superb TM elves aren't a match for anything other than TM orcs. Which is why they never took off. I've got 250 of them, and I doubt that they will ever see the tabletop. |
| YogiBearMinis | 22 Nov 2019 9:31 p.m. PST |
I bought a painted army single-based that I am rebasing to be a HoTT army, but was curious whether I could add any RP figures. I had lots of RP figures back in the 1980s, but gave them away 20 years ago and haven't bought any since. |
| Prince Rupert of the Rhine | 23 Nov 2019 4:44 a.m. PST |
I assume you mean these guys? Being a Brit I always think of them as Citadel rather than Ral Partha :). Of the ones I owned I always remember them as being very slight certainly true 25s.
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| Shadyt | 23 Nov 2019 7:03 a.m. PST |
Are the Thunderbolt miniatures available again? I thought they had been discontinued. |
| YogiBearMinis | 23 Nov 2019 7:22 a.m. PST |
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| YogiBearMinis | 24 Nov 2019 7:50 a.m. PST |
I found some of the older elven Cavalry by RP in the lot I purchased, and they are indeed smaller. The issue has been confusing because 1 of 3 people on the internet talk about the Thunderbolt elves being very big though slender, and another 1 of 3 call them exceptionally small. It is actually interesting to place these Thunderbolt in a lineup from 1/72 plastics through GW LOTR through Warhammer up through, say, Malifaux/Infinity figures (actually like 35mm) just to see the wide range of scale creep over the years. |
| Lucius | 24 Nov 2019 7:43 p.m. PST |
Because the proportions are realistic, the figures look thin. They look great with TM orcs. They look great with the sadly unfinished TM Byzantines. And that's it. Which is why my army of TM elves, the best figures that I own, are at the bottom of my painting pile. It is an orphan army. |
| wizbangs | 25 Nov 2019 1:30 p.m. PST |
In real life, if I were a 25mm figure, my gaming buddy would be about 32mm. I never understood the "all match or bin them" concept of miniatures. My TM Elves fight in a Wood Elf army with other GW Wood Elf miniatures. Although they don't combine in a unit, they look great as their own unit in the army (just tall and more slender than their kin). The only place I run into trouble is with horses. |
| Tarantella | 26 Nov 2019 2:13 a.m. PST |
The Ironwind website shows most of the stylistically similar historical and many of the fantasy horses are available separately barring the elite elf mount for one.
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Have no idea how other riders might fit these horses and with postage + import duties + 20% value added tax on top of that to get them to the UK it will remain a mystery to me. |
| David Johansen | 26 Nov 2019 10:24 p.m. PST |
The Thunderbolt Mountain elves might work with the Ral Partha Fantasy Armies by Chris Fitzpatrick. They're 28mm but pretty fine, and they're all crouching so if they stood upright they'd probably be 30 – 33mm. |
| maninthemoon1965 | 02 Dec 2020 5:07 p.m. PST |
Great News!!!
Many of Thunderbolt Mountain's ranges are currently being reproduced by Ral Partha Legacy at
link I also have some albums of their ranges at link link Sean in Oregon, eastofthesun@mail.com |
