Author Topic: The Halfling File (Read 24586 times)

ZeroTwentythree · « **Reply #75 on:** November 19, 2019, 11:06:48 PM »

OS Miniatures KS - halflings and chaos

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/882426675/osm-presents-the-battle-of-the-vale-an-heroic-tale/description

GamesPoet · « **Reply #76 on:** November 20, 2019, 12:59:28 AM »

Pledged for one set of the halflings, not much interest in the others.

GamesPoet · « **Reply #77 on:** November 22, 2019, 02:07:14 PM »

Kickstarter suspended that halfling pledge drive. The figures can still be purchased on pre-order on the company's internet site. Think I'll wait.

ZeroTwentythree · « **Reply #78 on:** November 23, 2019, 04:58:56 PM »

I saw that. He also mentioned that they're at the "early bird" price at the moment if you buy direct

Midaski · « **Reply #79 on:** June 12, 2020, 09:26:52 PM »

Just thought I would add a few comments to this thread.

I did get some Warlord Games / TTCombat halflings and a box of the Wargames Atlantic ones.

Pretty disappointed with the Warlord ones.

Firstly they are different proportions to Westphalia - they are about the same height, but the heads are much larger. They are more in keeping with the later GW ones - the guy with the sword and chicken drumstick and the large feather in his hat.
Westphalia halflings are generally human proportions just shorter.

They are also chubby and the bows on the archers are just stupid and 'toy' looking.
The resin seems a lot softer, and therefore more bendy and the weapons are flimsy.

And they need a lot of cleaning up - loads of excess resin supporting 'pipework'.

The Wargames Atlantic ones are plastic and are ok - not as detailed as Westphalia, but passable.

40 figures per box.
8 sprues with 5 x One piece body, and overall somewhere in the middle, or even closer to Westphalia proportion wise.

Lots of heads (15) loosely from different time periods if you want to theme your troops.

You cannot make 40 figures of the same weapon type though.

Your 5-man sprue has the following choices of weaponry with hands/arms
2 x Pike
2 x Polearms
2 x Bows
2 x Slings (Unusual)
1 x Short Sword
1 x Musician Horn

so you can multiply that by 8 to see your maximums.
2 Boxes would get you a decent varied small force.

Now I have a pic host I will try to knock up a comparison photo at some stage.

Midaski · « **Reply #80 on:** June 13, 2020, 08:42:49 PM »

Found this page which is very useful for all the older stuff.

http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=298495

Essex (Bob Olley), Warploque, Games Workshop (OOP), Games Workshop (OOP) Blood Bowl, Black Tree Design Harlequin Archer of Greenwood, Games Workshop Loopin Croop, Reaper, Last one …shizzle I forget lol.

L to R: Black Tree LOTR, Marauder (OOP), Red Box Games, Citadel C11 (OOP), Citadel C11 (OOP), Grenadier/Copplestone, Games Workshop (OOP), Battleforge, Warploque, Reaper and Games Workshop LOTR.

Left to right, Heresy, Heresy, Heresy, Reaper, Citadel LOTR (OOP), Citadel C11 Solid Base (OOP), Citadel C11 (OOP), Marauder (OOP), Black Tree Design Harlequin, Ral Partha.

Left to Right, Ral Partha, Black Tree LOTR, Red Box Games, Grenadier, Wizrards of the Coast, Grenadier, Wizards of the Coast….missing GW LOTR.

I will add my newer pics as soon as sorted

Just one of a few pictures and the info of the models is on the page.

GamesPoet · « **Reply #81 on:** June 13, 2020, 08:47:56 PM »

Interesting ... most of them all seem to have the chubbier GW look to them.

I have a bunch of the GW figures, yet prefer the Westfalia look.

ZeroTwentythree · « **Reply #82 on:** June 14, 2020, 05:42:02 AM »

Per the pics, Black Tree have two very different ranges of halflings. Ral Partha and Reaper can also vary a lot too.

Thanks for the info on Warlord & Wargames Atlantic, I've been considering both lately.

I'd honestly prefer to get the all of the figures I want from Westfalia (favorite sculpts by a longshot!) but my orders either seem to arrive all messed up or not at all!

Zygmund · « **Reply #83 on:** June 14, 2020, 06:45:56 AM »

Quote from: ZeroTwentythree on June 14, 2020, 05:42:02 AM

Per the pics, Black Tree have two very different ranges of halflings. Ral Partha and Reaper can also vary a lot too.

I don't think the Black Tree LOTR halfling line is alive. Haven't seen those minis on their website in years.

I think Reaper has two distinct fantasy scales: the 90's 28mm, and the 2000s 30-35mm, which is also the scale for all new bones plastics that are not a remolding of a 90's metal sculpt. The lines are named differently, so it's easy to differentiate them. (ATM can't remember just what the names were...)

-Z

Padre · « **Reply #84 on:** June 14, 2020, 11:08:11 AM »

If I can draw myself away from various other hobby obsessions, I'll show you comparisons of the halflings I have (for example I have both kinds of Black Tree halflings - very different indeed.)

Midaski · « **Reply #85 on:** June 14, 2020, 03:58:43 PM »

Ok - here are some size comparison pics.
I have used one Westphalia figure (WES) - and one GW figure from early 1990s era.

WG = Warlord Games (TTCombat)
WA = Wargames Atlantic

GW, WA, WG, WA, WG, WES

GW, WG, WES, WG, WG, WA

WES, 5 x Midlam, GW

One or two could have been posed at a better angle, but I think you can see what I meant about the 'proportions' on the Warlord Games/TTCombat ones.
They are probably not as bad as I thought originally now I have cleaned them up, but the soft resin means I have had some broken weapons.
The Wargames Atlantic ones are better in my opinion, and not immune to some criticism: the pike was a devil to line up with the left (handless) arm, and there is a right arm with an arrow, to combine with the bow left arm, and the arrow is incredibly thin. One broke just clipping it off the sprue, and some of the other weapons are a bit flimsy.

Midaski · « **Reply #86 on:** June 14, 2020, 04:12:18 PM »

While I had the camera set up, I took a few more of other Halflings I have.
Padre mentioned the Harlequin?Black Tree ones of which I have a few.

Again I used a Westphalia and GW Figure to help the size comparison.

Harlequin/ Black Tree - small

Harlequin/ Black Tree - larger

These have 'Mark SIMS' on the tab - he of Crusader Miniatures, but I think these are from a previous 'job' and may have ended up at Black Hat, and again moved on? Simple but a nice size fit for rear ranks.

Old GW - 1980s

More Old GW - 1980s

More Old GW - 1980s

More Old GW - 1980s

More Old GW - 1980s but with one of the Mark Sims figures at the far right.

Midaski · « **Reply #87 on:** June 14, 2020, 04:24:50 PM »

Lastly some 'Lord of the Rings' figures and I am not sure of the source though I suspect one is actually the GW game.

They have Merry, Sam, and Frodo on the tabs (in that order L to R ) but nothing else.

Edit - Also now includes 'Bilbo' from the unidentified set below - between the Valkyrie and Ral Partha figures.

These I suspect are from the GW game - they have the films 'look'.

and lastly I cannot identify these either - two of which are beyond tiny

On the right they are small and skinny.

Somewhere I also have some other manufacturers' halflings.

Copplestone - couple of sets - some old ones, and some more recent.
Arcworlde Halflings of Hobbleshire set

and I have done 4 KS and included sets of Villagers of ...

Midlam Miniatures

and mustn't forget ... ...

White Knight's - loads of

Artobans Ghost · « **Reply #88 on:** June 14, 2020, 04:55:05 PM »

Really like those Midlams.
The ‘quaterlings’ seem a bit small.

GamesPoet · « **Reply #89 on:** June 14, 2020, 05:41:33 PM »

Sound like quite the collection.

ZeroTwentythree · « **Reply #90 on:** June 15, 2020, 02:48:08 AM »

I think the Mark Sims minis are from the old Shattered Isles range, now being sold by Bridge Miniatures.

https://bridgeminiatures.com/product-category/shattered-isles-fantasy/shattered-isles-fantasy-halflings/

Quote from: Midaski on June 14, 2020, 04:24:50 PM

and lastly I cannot identify these either - two of which are beyond tiny

On the right they are small and skinny.

Ral Partha. Old. They had some tiny cavalry, too.

ZeroTwentythree · « **Reply #91 on:** June 15, 2020, 02:53:39 AM »

Quote from: Zygmund on June 14, 2020, 06:45:56 AM

I don't think the Black Tree LOTR halfling line is alive. Haven't seen those minis on their website in years.

Scroll through the Men of Averaign figures for the smaller Black Tree halflings.

https://eoeorbis.com/collections/fantasy/range_men-of-averaign

The larger ones used to be in their own category, but now that seems to display the smaller ones from the range above instead.

https://eoeorbis.com/collections/fantasy/range_halflings

Midaski · « **Reply #92 on:** June 15, 2020, 07:54:44 AM »

I have sort of identified the figure in the middle now (between the Valkyrie one and the Ral Partha.

I think it belongs with the three LotR figures pictured with the names as I think it says Bilbo on the tag.

Feanor Fire Heart · « **Reply #93 on:** June 18, 2020, 02:55:43 AM »

Not sure if it was mentioned here before but I cam across this on reddit:
https://theassaultgroup.co.uk/product-category/fantasy/

ZeroTwentythree · « **Reply #94 on:** June 18, 2020, 08:25:55 PM »

Feanor Fire Heart · « **Reply #95 on:** June 18, 2020, 09:18:56 PM »

nah, just chonky

Midaski · « **Reply #96 on:** June 18, 2020, 09:44:52 PM »

They were a follow up on White Knights Halfling ranges, which he sold to TAG, so they match the puffy pants and sleeves of the Imperial look, but I must admit for some reason I have never really liked the 'chickens' or roosters as mounts just generally as a concept.

Realistically they would have to be mutant chickens anyway as their relative size to the halflings are silly. Big pigs or even largeish goats are mor realistic by far.

Having said that I have some, and some of the new 'armoured' ones, but I think that says more for the stupid 'collector' in me, than for the aesthetic.

ZeroTwentythree · « **Reply #97 on:** June 19, 2020, 07:51:01 AM »

I just can't get into them.

Shadespyre · « **Reply #98 on:** November 16, 2020, 10:38:15 PM »

I just had to resurrect this thread to post these, because WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE EVER LOVING SIGMAR WERE THEY THINKING HERE:

Artobans Ghost · « **Reply #99 on:** November 16, 2020, 10:50:20 PM »

That is possibly the most unique unit I have seen 😺

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Author Topic: The Halfling File (Read 24586 times)