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Wider Wargaming => Genre/Period Discussion => Fantasy & Sci-Fi => Topic started by: FierceKitty on 28 May 2014, 03:57:14 AM

Title: Witches
Post by: FierceKitty on 28 May 2014, 03:57:14 AM
The cauldron is available c/o the Ottoman range, but what have we got that'll do for three witches? As the more astute among you will have guessed, I want more baggage elements for my Scottish army.
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: Ithoriel on 28 May 2014, 09:03:43 AM
FBG7
Period: Fantasy Range: Beggars
Female beggars
£1.95

One even has a broom iirc - any good?
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: FierceKitty on 28 May 2014, 09:06:39 AM
Sounds interesting. Got any pics, by some happy chance?
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: Ithoriel on 28 May 2014, 09:53:41 AM
Figure on the left of this pic

(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2396/4511594185_67578ca23b.jpg)
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: FierceKitty on 28 May 2014, 10:15:23 AM
Hmmm, ta. That may be the way to go.
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: Leon on 28 May 2014, 01:07:27 PM
There's the Zombie Wizards as well in the Undead range, those could be painted as witches quite easily.  They don't have long hair, but are stood in scraggy robes with their arms outstretched casting spells?

Title: Re: Witches
Post by: FierceKitty on 28 May 2014, 01:28:42 PM
OK, can I have three suitable weird sisters (one with a broomstick does sound fun) and a cauldron, please? I'll trust your choice. Bill me as usual.
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: O Dinas Powys on 28 May 2014, 02:35:07 PM
Have a look here for a previous discussion: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,8305.0.html

Quote from: O Dinas Powys on 09 September 2013, 06:33:52 AM
FBG7 Beggar woman (with broom)?

(http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l602/Meirion_Hopkins/10mm%20Minis/P1010078a.jpg)

Just add a hat...  <)

The second pose in the pack has a rolling-pin held almost horizontally in a "wait 'till you get home from the pub" kind of way  :o

Be aware that these figures are very tall compared to the historical ones.

Cheers!

Meirion
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: FierceKitty on 28 May 2014, 11:15:19 PM
Well, if witches look a bit different from everyone around them, I guess that's OK. The green face tends to be a bit distinctive anyway.
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: GordonY on 29 May 2014, 04:42:34 AM
Shame Pendraken don't do sculpts of Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat, that's 3 witches you wouldmt wamma get on the wrong side off.
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: FierceKitty on 29 May 2014, 05:09:03 AM
I had a witch as a boss once, actually. Even made friends with her cat, visited her cottage, and tried to drink a glass of her brew (slivovice, they call it; home-brewed plum brandy, and you don't want to get on the wrong side of that drink!).
She'd never turned anyone into a frog, but she said she had once cursed someone, and been so alarmed at the results that she'd sworn never to do it again; wouldn't go into details.
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: Leon on 02 June 2014, 04:33:36 PM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 29 May 2014, 05:09:03 AM
(slivovice, they call it; home-brewed plum brandy...

Was she Slovakian?  I've heard that particular home brew mentioned by some Slovak friends.
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: FierceKitty on 02 June 2014, 04:43:34 PM
Moravian. Near as dammit.
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: Sandinista on 02 June 2014, 08:13:53 PM
Slivovice is fantastic, many a lunatic escapade in Prague started with that stuff  :D
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: FierceKitty on 03 June 2014, 12:46:09 AM
"Drunk as a Russian", as I have heard Czechs say. Though the reputation of the English is moving from cool as a lettuce to plastered as a fresco too.
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: raia on 17 June 2014, 06:48:39 AM
Nice to heard here the word "slivovice". I like it. I have many litres of this drink at home. And yes, I'm a Moravian
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: FierceKitty on 17 June 2014, 06:57:49 AM

Where're you from? I used to live in Brno.
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: raia on 17 June 2014, 08:15:28 AM
I work in Brno
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: FierceKitty on 17 June 2014, 08:35:24 AM
Do me a favour, will you? Drop me an email at tybalthw@hotmail.com so I can send you a photograph of a woodblock print I had stolen there some years ago. If you see the thing in a shop anywhere, buy it for me and I'll pay you a hefty finder's fee. I've been trying to replace it for many years; inter alia, I bought it with my first salary cheque.
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: raia on 17 June 2014, 01:48:01 PM
I have send you PM
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: FierceKitty on 17 June 2014, 03:10:57 PM
ty
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: FierceKitty on 19 June 2014, 08:57:05 AM
The weird sisters are coming on very prettily. (teaser)
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: cameronian on 20 June 2014, 11:04:40 AM
Harriet Harman, Jasmin Alibhai Brown and .... mmmmmmm ?
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: Ithoriel on 20 June 2014, 02:44:28 PM
Quote from: cameronian on 20 June 2014, 11:04:40 AM
Harriet Harman, Jasmin Alibhai Brown and .... mmmmmmm ?

Surely Theresa May, Theresa Villiers and Justine Greening
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: Fenton on 20 June 2014, 02:52:50 PM
Katie Hopkins for definite
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: Ithoriel on 20 June 2014, 02:58:09 PM
Quote from: Fenton on 20 June 2014, 02:52:50 PM
Katie Hopkins for definite

No idea who Katie Hopkins is but I'm happy to trust your judgement Fenton
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: toxicpixie on 20 June 2014, 03:34:05 PM
Quote from: Ithoriel on 20 June 2014, 02:58:09 PM
No idea who Katie Hopkins is but I'm happy to trust your judgement Fenton

She's like the Hate Mail turned up to eleven on 'roids. Basically a paid troll whose sole purpose is to be as unpleasant and objectionable as possible to generate page views. At least, I hope she's playing the character, and she isn't actually "real".
Title: Re: Witches
Post by: Leman on 20 June 2014, 05:27:55 PM
First encountered slivovice on Bratislava station platform in 1974. A toast utilising slivovice was how I was greeted by my hosts. In those days a Czech crown was worth 4p - a half  litre of pilsner lager was one crown and a litre jug of wine was four crowns.