How about some armoured and armed ogres (for the fantasy range), about the same size as the minotaurs, looking roughly like large heavily muscled men, but with slightly bestial faces and fangs/tusks?
Good idea!!
+1
Are the trolls any use? You could add some tusks and armour fairly easily?
(http://www.pendraken.co.uk/ProductImages/FT1.jpg)
http://www.pendraken.co.uk/Fantasy-c21/Trolls-sc169/ (http://www.pendraken.co.uk/Fantasy-c21/Trolls-sc169/)
This trolls are cool! I will use them for my Sand Orc Army! But One of my dream is to re-created LOTR battle. The armoured Troll will aid me.^^
There is the troll leader
(http://www.pendraken.co.uk:80/ProductImages/FT3.jpg)
He looks more like an Ogre to me
Wow! super giant picture....
Quote from: fred12df on 09 June 2011, 06:51:23 PM
Wow! super giant picture....
Haha, I've shrunk it down a bit with a "width=200" tag.
The trolls just aren't very good figures. :( They look like cartoons. I think you could do a lot better.
Quote from: Dunnadd on 10 June 2011, 01:17:38 AM
The trolls just aren't very good figures. :( They look like cartoons. I think you could do a lot better.
:'(
I quite like them...
:P
you've got a huge range of figures at low prices and i really like the imaginative designs of some of your figures (e.g goblin-wolf centaurs), but to be honest i mostly prefer Eureka's 10mm line and Games Workshop's Warmaster and Battle of the Five armies fantasy ranges (even if both are more expensive and Games Workshop's prices rise at way above the rate of inflation).
Pendraken 10mm goblins and dark elves and centaurs and wood elves are decent figures and can be used with other 10 - 12mm figs without looking like a different scale. Most of the rest of the 10mm fantasy - Orcs and trolls and minotaurs, hobgoblins, fishmen and dwarves, i'm not too keen on - too big to use with most other figures - (pretty much 15mm scale with the exception of minotaurs as they're meant to be big), too cartoon-style, outsize hands weapons and heads. Making fishmen just a fish carrying a trident - well - maybe meant to be funny? I prefer more serious looking figures.
The Trolls and Minotaurs I'd expect to be bigger, but I know what you mean with some of the others. The Ratmen are quite big, but then how big is a Fantasy rat? They can be used in the 15 and 20mm games easily though. The Fishmen are completely random, I'm not sure what the designer was on that particular day!
With the Dwarves, the original ones from when we started are a bit bigger than some people like, but the Hill Dwarves are a very nice alternative, and I prefer the look of them.
Quote from: Leon on 10 June 2011, 10:02:59 PM
The Ratmen are quite big, but then how big is a Fantasy rat?
Ask 'The Princess Bride' - R.O.U.S.
So that is a giant rat of Sumatra, dont tell Watson.....
IanS
I like the idea. I think I'll sculpt a bunch and make them fit the dungeon range, i.e. put them on 15² bases. For fun at least. Maybe a handful, with axe, mace, club, cleaver, cleave-axe; wearing leather and hide armor, shoulder plates and shields occasionally.
Cheers
Quote from: Dunnadd on 10 June 2011, 01:17:38 AM
The trolls just aren't very good figures. :( They look like cartoons. I think you could do a lot better.
I think they are cool, was thinking of buying some at SELWG
Quote from: Nico on 09 September 2011, 10:18:57 AM
I like the idea. I think I'll sculpt a bunch and make them fit the dungeon range, i.e. put them on 15² bases. For fun at least. Maybe a handful, with axe, mace, club, cleaver, cleave-axe; wearing leather and hide armor, shoulder plates and shields occasionally.
Cheers
Now that could tempt the multiple pound notes out of my wallet!
Sounds good. I've just bought lots of minatours as stand ins for WM Ogres but more variety is always good.
The Trolls are excellent. I do already use the Troll Leader in my Middle Earth games. There’s nothing a good piece of custom placed armour here, or a `green stuff` tusk there that a good pair of hands can`t make an awesome mini look even more in keeping with your desired mythos.
Sizes, in fantasy; I mean what is the size of a Rat, or a Dwarf, or a.... whatever?
No, end of the day it’s down to whether you like the whimsical, often inspired, and absolutely different (aka unique) line that Pendraken makes, or whether you want to go for the GW `sheep mentality `"Oh look, my army looks e-x-a-c-t-l-y like your army, oh! and look, so does his.. and his, and his". Personally I like Pendraken for what it does. By this I mean it offers a unique peek into a fantastical subject, offers a comprehensive (all metal) range covering a myriad of creatures and humanoids, and offers them to us for an unbeatably affordable price.
1.60 for a pack of 10 miniatures is a heck of a good price I think.
Naaa, give me a Pendraken Miniatures Troll, or any other mini for that matter any day over 10mm things made by anyone else.
I don`t know about you, but I like to build my collection to be aesthetically complete. By this I mean I like to ensure that when I start collecting a range... I know I will be able to flesh it out and complete that collection - all from just one company. This way the collection feels like a collection and not a hotchpotch amalgamation of thrown together pieces from a series of different non matching ranges.... if you collected “Clare Craft Pottery Cottagesâ€, would you put a John Turner “Made in Clay†one on the same shelf alongside them? There’s nothing as pleasing as picking off `this and that` all from just one favoured company, and watching a complete collection grow steadily over time. And Pendraken offers me just that. A vast range to choose and collect from, and at a great price.
Of course, this is only my opinion, and each collector is free to choose exactly what they want for themselves. But for my two pennies worth, ROCK ON Pendraken Miniatures.
Happy gaming :)
Six :D
There's no doubt the Pendraken prices are unbeatable ! Perfectly fair prices. :o
I like the Troll Leader - shame I didn't see it before, should get one :) . He's like the big and trolly butcher you can not identify as a member of any known race, who cuts and slices everything his master, the alchimist, likes to throw in his soup (and who's probably the product of a slave thrown into such a soup). But they actually are a bit cartoony. They remind me a lot of what I imagined "The Hobbit" 's troll trio would look like. If you imagine your ogres as cruel and merciless beasts driven by their endless hunger for human flesh that'll creep the hell out of you in a narrow dungeon corridor you need something more ... evil :d
Cheers !
I support the idea of armored ogres BUT I do agree with what Sixsideddice said about pendraken. use creativity, the same kind of flair that is seen in the rest of your minies! I am useing pendraken for WHFB, but that does not mean I cant aprrecaite things that dont support GW hegemony.
QuoteI support the idea of armored ogres BUT I do agree with what Sixsideddice said about pendraken. use creativity, the same kind of flair that is seen in the rest of your minies! I am useing pendraken for WHFB, but that does not mean I cant aprrecaite things that dont support GW hegemony.
With you there 100% KOV, and it looks like together well be creating from scratch on this one, you initially on your Empire (if I read correctly) and me on my Undead legions. This is going to be fun.
Now where did I put my Armoured Ogres..... ah yes!
Six :)
you read correctly. its going to epic. pity it will take 4 weeks or longer for my minies to get to me from across the pond. I wont be able to start until then. togather we shall be fighting the two headed monster of GW overpricing and the overall killer of time/money that is 28mm
Quoteyou read correctly. its going to epic. pity it will take 4 weeks or longer for my minies to get to me from across the pond. I wont be able to start until then. togather we shall be fighting the two headed monster of GW overpricing and the overall killer of time/money that is 28mm
I like you already ;) we think alike.
Hmmm, while you wait for your minis to arrive, how about browsing all you can on line about 10mm (sadly, there`s not nearly enough material on this scale, but there are some gem sites and blogs to be found). Its what I did
way back when I started in this scale and while I was pacing and waiting for my first order to wing its way to me.
Six
Quote from: sixsideddice on 13 September 2011, 12:33:14 AM
I like you already ;) we think alike.
Hmmm, while you wait for your minis to arrive, how about browsing all you can on line about 10mm (sadly, there`s not nearly enough material on this scale, but there are some gem sites and blogs to be found). Its what I did way back when I started in this scale and while I was pacing and waiting for my first order to wing its way to me.
Six
Aye, we do think alike. I sense we are destined by the Gods of War to brothers in nerdiness over the internet. I will take your advice all the way to the limits of my google-fu
Ah - bonding between us gamer geeks. 'tis a beautiful thing :-B >:< :-B
QuoteAye, we do think alike. I sense we are destined by the Gods of War to brothers in nerdiness over the internet. I will take your advice all the way to the limits of my google-fu
... and seals the bond in a wrist clasp, while heartily reciting:
"brōþors ēac sweostors. ic ƿille séon þéc on Ƿælhealle mÃn bróðor."QuoteAh - bonding between us gamer geeks. 'tis a beautiful thing
=O
Six :D
och, google translate fails me once again. what language is that?
Looks like Old English or Gallic
hehe, you probably wouldn`t find it on line; the language is Anglo Saxon; which is often bastardised in movies and by companies (like GW) for their suitably sounding book material.
At last, that unit of Old and Middle English I did at Uni will be useful for something, 20 years later...
QuoteAt last, that unit of Old and Middle English I did at Uni will be useful for something, 20 years later...
So priketh hem Nature in hir coragesSix :D
Although it may take me a day or two to translate it (who you calling a coward)... :D
=O I wouldn`t d-d-dare..... you may send an Invisible Fiend after me
Invisible fiends are the worst kind due to the difficulties involved in seeing them
;D