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Post by scalydemon on Feb 13, 2020 23:22:59 GMT -6
Any good blog articles on the subject of fantasy minis available at the time of OD&D first publishing?.(January 74)
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Post by captainjapan on Feb 14, 2020 0:48:50 GMT -6
Any good blog articles on the subject of fantasy minis available at the time of OD&D first publishing?.(January 74) Playing at the World
There's a link in the comments to a blog with close-up photos.
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Post by rsdean on Feb 14, 2020 4:47:24 GMT -6
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Post by Zenopus on Feb 14, 2020 7:27:29 GMT -6
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Post by scalydemon on Feb 14, 2020 12:13:44 GMT -6
It's probably a pipe dream, but would be cool to run an Od&d game, using only minis available at the time, only dice available at the time, regular pencils, graph paper etc. Thanks for the links and info.
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Post by rsdean on Feb 15, 2020 8:08:12 GMT -6
At least the pencils and graph paper should be a problem...
So the question you would have to answer for yourself is going to be what cut-off date you will accept. If you are really going to go for 1974, your list is short, and your only problem is going to be finding the figures which aren’t available in current recasts. Minifigs, for example, only has 20 or so of the 60 ME figures available, so anything other than those is going to take some flea market or eBay scrounging, and I have to say that they don’t come up very often. It’s taken me a long time to accumulate a dozen or so hobbits, for example, so I won’t be doing a wargame of the Battle of Bywater in Minifigs anytime soon. Sometime before 1976, you get the earliest Ral Partha figures, Heritage’s Earth of Olde range, Custom Cast’s Fantastiques, and Minifig’s Swords and Sorcery (unlicensed Conan) range. By 1977, you’ve got Archive, Dragontooth, Grenadier, Garrison, and probably more. I’m not sure where the earliest McEwan’s fit in (currently available in recast, huzzah!). Everything will have a distinctly Tolkien flavor to it. After D&D came out, you start getting the D&D influenced lines from Archive and Grenadier, for example.
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Post by countingwizard on Feb 26, 2020 9:46:35 GMT -6
I would love to use the original plastic figures mentioned in Chainmail, but they are incredibly expensive for the numbers needed, and it is hard to find modern equivalents. You would think it should be easy to find plastic army-man figures or something but medieval, but no.
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Post by rsdean on Feb 26, 2020 18:55:58 GMT -6
40mm (as the original Elastolins) is an unusual scale. 54mm plastic medievals should be less of a problem...1/72 plastic medievals shouldn’t be any problem. When you say that, what did you have in mind?
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Post by countingwizard on Feb 26, 2020 20:24:32 GMT -6
40mm or 30mm
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Post by rsdean on Feb 27, 2020 14:37:15 GMT -6
For 30mm, most of the multi-part hard plastics available these days (say Warlord Games) are more suitable for mixing with old school 30s than with old school 25s.
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Post by countingwizard on Feb 27, 2020 15:24:04 GMT -6
I wasn't aware of Warlord games. Not terribly expensive in the larger army boxes (less than a dollar per figure).
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Post by rsdean on Feb 28, 2020 4:23:07 GMT -6
Personally, I find working with hard plastic multi-part minis extremely frustrating, but that’s very much the minority opinion. Looks like you are loosely limited to to either Vikings or the 15th century, but the latter, at least, would be pretty much core period for Chainmail.
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Post by scalydemon on Jul 21, 2020 21:09:47 GMT -6
I saw this video the other day and thought it was really cool. Mid 70's British miniature maker promo video. youtu.be/lA6LCGONW1o
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Post by tkdco2 on Jul 21, 2020 22:02:51 GMT -6
Check on your period minis once in a while. I noticed a couple of mine suffering from lead rot.
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Post by DungeonDevil on Jul 23, 2020 19:03:08 GMT -6
I would use period minis, but they often get mistaken for comma minis. *rimshot* Thank you! I'll be here all week!
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