Formatting problems being what they are I have replaced all the full-stops with colons:
This is a reconstruction of a lost document I prepared to give the designers some feedback: Bear in mind that my interest in these miniatures stemmed mainly from their usefulness in wargames so some of the comments should be taken in this light:
Firstly the figures I have actually bought (not sure about the actual names):
Duck Officer
Obviously a humakti, this guy carries a _long_, straight sword: His
classical helmet has a huge, upright plume: Not too far out of scale
with the old Citadel miniatures Duck but much more heavily armed:
Pose is noticeably flat:
Duck Standard bearer
Similarly dressed to his officer in cloak and Roman-style helmet and
muscle cuirasse (they look suspiciously uniform these guys - maybe
they've recently looted a number of Lunar bodies): The standard is
a spiked pole with a crosspiece from which hangs a banner I would
put at about 3 (scale) feet square:
Duck standing
Again dressed in pseudo-Roman style: He is standing to attention
leaning on a gladius-like shortsword with a leaf shaped blade: I am
going to base up all the above ducks as a humakti standard guard
for my Sartarite army:
Duck advancing
Similar dress again but this guy is carrying a round shield and a
scimitar: Another flat pose: I think it's derived from the same basic
doll as the officer: I've successfully removed the scimitar from one
of them and intend to replace it with a sling:
Clay Mostali with repeating crossbow
I've asked on the Digest about this and the general consensus is
that Clay Mostali are normal dwarf-sized: This guy is human-sized
and beardless: He wears three-quarter plate armour of vaguely
16th century style and carries a crossbow with an improbably
unwieldy-looking magazine: I suspect this may pass as one
of the inventions of Leonardo the scientist:
Sable Rider, Sable Officer
These are obviously very civilised Lunar mercenaries: The helmets
are very Roman in style with bits of cresent moon decoration and
roundels which are obviously meant to be painted as moon runes:
The officer brandishes a scimitar and is shouting a warcry: The
soldier has a lance on one seperately cast arm and a crescent-shaped
peltast shield on the other: They are both very nice figures: The only
problem is they are huge! They completely dwarf even the largest
25mm figures in my collection:
Next come my impressions of figures I have seen but didn't buy :
Sun Domers
These include a spearman, I think an officer, and an archer: All of them
are classical Greek hoplite armour, which is fine, but all also have helmets=20=
shaped like hawk's heads - probably OK for one or two figures but not for all of them I would have thought: The spears are cast on and so are rather short: I would have preferred them cast open-handed so I could add wire pikes:
Troll Merchant
A very nice rendition of the guy in the shades who appeared in the RQ2
(and RQ3?) Trollpak:
Trollkin
All a bit skinny but otherwise fine: Includes a three-armed one who should
have been eaten at birth:
Dragonewts
Nicely worked figures with klanth, gami etc:
Praxians (Zebra Riders, Rhino riders etc:)
The Praxians all struck me as a _leetle_ bit too civilised-looking for my=20=
tastes
(the rhino rider has a metal chain round his beast's horn and a=20=
medieval-looking
lance with conical hand-guard) but otherwise lovely: I especially liked the=20=
Zebras which were a lot closer to true 25mm scale than the Sables I'd=20=
already
ordered: They are tall-hatted types obviously based on the illo in the=20=
Glorantha
boxed set:
Richard Crawley
richardc_at_sypte=2Eco=2Euk
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