Hey Rick
Any chance you could scare up another set and bring them to
Continuum 2006 for some tabeltop action???
Regards
Rob
PS: You (just to maintain the spirit of the list) nobs!
- In ImmoderateHeroQuest_at_yahoogroups.com, "Rick Meints"
<rjmeints_at_a...> wrote:
>
> --- In ImmoderateHeroQuest_at_yahoogroups.com, "duane_costa"
> <dcosta29_at_c...> wrote:
> >
> > To the best of my recollection, I purchased the miniatures at a
> > vendor's booth at Origins '82 in Baltimore, MD, in July, 1982.
> > Unfortunately, I no longer have any of the original packaging
and I
> > can't recall the manufacturer. I wish I could provide you with
more
> > details, but that's all I can remember. I also wish I had taken
> > better care over the years to keep the whole set together!
>
> As the lucky purchaser of the Trollball set from you on Ebay, I'm
just
> happy that you were willing to sell it. As far as my watchful eye
> knows, one of these "sets" has never come up for sale before. The
> manufacturer is probably Martian Metals. I've spoken with Greg
> Stafford about the set and that is what he recollects as well.
Martian
> Metals did all of their Runequest minis with Hex bases, just like
the
> larger minis in this set. Martian Metals had the Runequest minis
> license in 1982 (they started making RQ minis around 1979). The
look
> of trolls in the set is William Church inspired. I suppose it's
> possible that he sculpted them, although Paul Jaquays, who did
much of
> the MM RQ line, is more likely. The set was created to be used
with
> the Trollball game rules and map first published in 1979 in Wyrm's
> Footnotes 7 and reprinted in RQ2 trollpak.
>
> I can't be sure of how big the "trollball" range of minis was
meant to
> be. A team is made up of seven players. The two teams in the set
each
> have seven players. There are also the two referees, and the
priestess
> as well. There's also the trollkin trollball. Thus, the set I
> purchased is complete as is, but they may have made other teams of
> minis, or other variants. Paul Jaquays didn't mention the set when
i
> spoke with him, but he admitted he hadn't thought much about the
minis
> for over 20 years. I'll have to ask around a bit more. Greg says
he
> has a set somewhere. Perhaps we can compare his set's contents to
mine.
>
> Hope that helps, ya idiots.
> Rick
>