Topic: Other Manufacturers

[Midaski]

Especially when these are on the way from Fireforge Games:

Here is a little preview of one of our two incoming heavy infantry plastic sets, Teutonic Infantry.
Stay tuned for a preview of Templar Infantry too very soon.

The Teutonic Infantry set will allow you to build up to 24 Teutonic Sergeants miniatures or up to 12 heavy crossbowmen and/or up to 12 Dismounted Knights.
Here is the details:

Heads - 10 different sergeant heads in two sections, 10 different teutonic knight heads and 4 bonus different heads for a total of 34 heads in the set.

Bodies - 9 different sculpetd infantry bodies in very dynamic and realistic poses.

Melee Weapons - 6 different right arms armed with spears, 2 with swords, 2 axes and 2 maces. Options for a 2h sword and a 2h axe as well as musician arm and standard bearer arm. Considering all the weapon sections, you'll find a total of 12 spears, 4 swords, 4 axes, 4 maces, 2h sword and 2h axe.

Crossbow - 6 different sculpted couple of arms with crossbow. You can build up to 12 heavy foot crossbowmen from the set.

Cloaks - 8 different cloak types not attached to the bodies.

Shields - 4 different shield types and 4 different left arm poses not attached to the shields. There are 24 shields and left arms in the box.

Various - Sword scabbards and crossbow quivers not attached to the bodies as well as musician and standard bearer options.

Aimed release date is late February.

More pics and deatils here.

http://www.fireforge-games.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=133:teutonic-infantry-preview&Itemid=477

The Foot Sergeants were a box set of 48 minis which seems to be selling for around £25 - £28 in the UK
The new Teutonic ones are described as 24 figures per box, so a lower price unit.


If they are similar in multipart goodness to the Foot Segeants (below) then I am looking forward to  them:



To save you going back through all those pages .........

[Mathi Alfblut]

Well those Monty Python knight are perfect for making a proper bretonnian army.

[Finlay]

a properly shit brettonian army you mean.

Those sergeants Mids posted are much nicer
 

[Finlay]

Vikings with 2handed weapons.

Midaski....?

These were the best I found, and I do quite like them. But need more variety if I'm going to have a unit of 30. http://www.crusaderminiatures.com/prod.php?prod=175&cat=4&sub=14&page=1

[Timbor]

Crusader has some Varangian guard in their Byzantine line that would look similar:

http://www.crusaderminiatures.com/prod.php?prod=79&cat=4&sub=9&page=1



http://www.crusaderminiatures.com/prod.php?prod=78&cat=4&sub=9&page=1





Gripping Beast also has a ton of vikings, and good plastic vikings.  I really like their Jomsvikings:

http://www.grippingbeast.com/shop.php?CatID=2405

Vikings with Dane axes: http://www.grippingbeast.com/product.php?ItemID=2539



If you aren't too picky they have some anglo-danes / saxons with 2 handed axes: http://www.grippingbeast.com/shop.php?CatID=5

[Finlay]

Thanks timbor!

the gripping beast plastics probably don't have enough 2handed weapons from what I've seen.

If I mix in the varingian guard and the anglo-saxons that will do nicely.

[Mathi Alfblut]

Good looking stuff! And remember that the varangian guard was norse and saxons. And the varangian guard may very well represent viking followers or hirdmen, the professional warriors in service of a chieftain or king.
The anglo-danes are not necessarily different from how late viking age scandinavians would have looked like, especially not western scandinavians who had a long history of contacts with the west.

[Finlay]

I don't care about historical accuracy, these are my warriors of ulric for empire of wolves !

[Midaski]

Vikings with 2handed weapons.

Midaski....?

I thought at first you were answering a query I had made.   

Not mentioned so far:
http://www.blacktreedesign.com/uk/home.php?cat=2474

Make sure you sign up as a Premium member - it's purely getting on their mailing list, but you get better discounts all the time logged in.




They look better in real life - although they are not GW or Perry sculpts, their images do not do them justice.


I am surprised no-one mentioned Artizan:

http://www.artizandesigns.com/list.php?man=17&cat=117&page=1





Cheap rear rankers possibly from Wargames Factory - their Saxon Thegns are the same bodies as the Viking Hirdmen, and you could always add suitable Empire hairy heads.

Some of the German minis also look suitably 'northern' if you can find them with mail.

[rufus sparkfire]

I have the Crusader varangians! Which I of course bought for my Byzantine army but haven't painted.

I quite like them.

[Midaski]

I have the Crusader varangians! Which I of course bought for my Byzantine army but haven't painted.

I quite like them.

That's good to hear - I am not wholly convinced by Crusader, but I have been reading Beyond the Golden Gate a lot recently and was tempted by some cheap Byzantine heavy cavalry on offer from Northstar last week.

Varangian Guard just seem like really cool troops .....................

Sort of slightly civilised Mathis 


I'm also not sure how you tell the difference between huscarls, vikings or varangians, [ or normans even as you cannot see the short hair,]  in full mail with great axes.

Midaski ducks ........... and waits for the wall


 

[Finlay]

I don’t like those artisan ones, although I really like the doppelsoldners I got from there. So maybe they are better in real life.
I really don’t like the black tree ones… and they aren’t any cheaper.
Although might get the black tree slingers!
Can you buy wargames foundry from the uk, or do they ship from the us?
What about the huscarls and bondi?

Rufus, I think those byzantines are my favourites of them all.

[rufus sparkfire]

I like the Crusader stuff. It's basically all the same models in slightly different outfits, but they look nice enough! Better than most historicals other than Perry, really. Certainly better than gripping beast.

I have most of the Byzantine range. But I only painted half an army! And the half I have painted isn't even a legal list in Beyond the Golden Gate, since you need three units of regular cavalry before you can field kataphraktoi.

I'm also not sure how you tell the difference between huscarls, vikings or varangians, [ or normans even as you cannot see the short hair,]  in full mail with great axes.

Varangians look richer because they are paid a fortune to guard the Emperor!

[Finlay]

I like the both the gripping beast ones Timbor posted!

[zifnab0]

Vikings with 2handed weapons.

Only 25mm, but West Wind has some vikings with 2h weapons.

[Midaski]

I find Gripping Beast a bit pricey, and I don't like the moulded on shield which several of their models have.

Foundry are a UK company based in Nottingham. I popped over there when Chumley organised the Warhammer World weekend December 2011.

You never buy Black Tree at full price.

I have got most of mine at 40% off, and some at 50% or even 70%
Signing up as a Premium member gets you the weekly newsletter, and if you are patient and buy when the offers are there, rather than to hurriedly make a unit then you can pay 70p a figure.

Having said that whatever range it is, there always seem to be some good and some poorer sculpts.

Magister Militum do some Varangians as well I think?

http://www.magistermilitum.com/prodtype.asp?PT_ID=29&strPageHistory=cat

http://www.magistermilitum.com/product.asp?numRecordPosition=7&P_ID=1733&strPageHistory=cat&strKeywords=&SearchFor=&PT_ID=1269

though the axe looks a poor fit in the hand .....

[Timbor]

I agree that Crusader seems like it has nicer sculpts than GB in general.  Though Gripping Beast sure has a lot of variety.  Looking forward to your results, Finlay!

The one nice thing about GB is the vast range of LBM transfers for their shields.  You can just buy a pack of their shields and use them with other miniatures though...

[Finlay]

I must say, it is quite good fun looking through the historical stuff to see what is good and what is... not.
Can see the attraction now Mids!

Although I did get confused, I meant to ask if wargames factory can be bought in the uk, not wargames foundry.
for these http://wargamesfactory.com/webstore/hammer-of-the-gods/viking-huscarls

[Finlay]

Vikings with 2handed weapons.

Only 25mm, but West Wind has some vikings with 2h weapons.

Hey, I like these!

need better pictures and would 25mm be miniscule?

[Midaski]

West Wind are here in the UK,  ........ BUT I couldn't find these Vikings on their website - they do some Saxons in their Arthurain range.

Maybe it's under license to Old Glory in the US.

[Finlay]

by the way, I just found wargames factory on northstar

Although their boxes are £16.50, instead of $20.00 (£12.50) and seeing as I only want the double handed ones, it probably wont work out cheaper.

Foundry is too expensive- 2 quid per figure, no thanks!

[GamesPoet]

I must say, it is quite good fun looking through the historical stuff to see what is good and what is... not.
Can see the attraction now Mids!

Hmmm ... perhaps the dawning of a new miniholic.

[zifnab0]

West Wind are here in the UK,  ........ BUT I couldn't find these Vikings on their website - they do some Saxons in their Arthurain range.

Maybe it's under license to Old Glory in the US.

They're "Nordvolk" under the "Dwarf Wars" range.  Not precisely vikings.

This seems to be a comparison of Marauders to the Nordvolk:

[Midaski]

by the way, I just found wargames factory on northstar

Although their boxes are £16.50, instead of $20.00 (£12.50) and seeing as I only want the double handed ones, it probably wont work out cheaper.

Foundry is too expensive- 2 quid per figure, no thanks!

Northstar are at list price, and they charge 10% shipping.  Another place I only buy in their bargains / sales 

You can get WF cheaper and post free if you hunt around - Caliver, Stafford Games I think, and there's a couple of others who have appeared after the death of Maelstrom.

Of course you could always kitbash a few from Marauders and Free Company.

Also I haven't bought Foundry direct for years. On the visit mentioned up the thread, they had 'bargain bins' where blisters were £3 each, so 50p a figure, and if you go to shows there are a couple of dealers who have piles of old blisters going cheap.

However if you are trying to make May 17th you are on a deadline, so waiting for sales or shows is probably not practical.

[Mathi Alfblut]

How anyone can mistake the Norvolk fantasy barbarians for vikings is beyond me... So many bare arms and silly wests... Brrr... Shame on you!

And the Varangian guard was the job all vikings with any sense for advancement and careermaking wanted to be in. It was the lid of lid, for the king of kings. If you could boast you had served in the guard you had something to boast about and would have job offers streaming over you from all sides.