Re: Desert Island Miniatures

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Jun 21, 2011; 2:06pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Desert-Island-Miniatures-tp6467959p6500117.html

Argh! This is a lot harder than I thought it would be, I've revised this list several times and I'm still not sure if I'm happy with it. There are some many miniatures I love to choose from ... ok here goes 8 miniatures to take to a desert island with me

1 A Citadel C-Series Orc

Ok definitely number 1 on my list has to be some thing from the Citadel C-Series and since my favourite race from the C-Series is the Orcs it has to be an Orc … this Orc in fact. This Orc was among the first miniatures I ever had. He may not be the best sculpted miniature but he's so full of character, the pose is just great and (I think possibly) unique. He's getting ready for a fight but he's clearly thinking hard (for an Orc) about something because he's scratching his head with his sword and his facial expression seems to say “wha?”.


2 Citadel Plastic Skeleton Hoard

Another bit of personal nostalgia is my second choice, these are the original plastic skeletons, again some of my first miniatures (yes I know it's a set and not one miniature, but if Jervis can pick a box of plastic Spacemarines in WD, I can pick a box of plastic Skeletons on my own Forum!) The ball-and-socket type joints meant that these little guys were pretty much infinitely poseable and have so much character because of it. They may be dead but the little things you could with these miniatures really made them come to life!


3 OtherWorld DD1 - The Demon Idol

If you don't know already; it's based on the iconic image on the cover of the 1st edition AD&D Players Handbook – this miniature/terrain piece/dungeon dressing is simply awesome and captures all the atmosphere of the original image in 3D forum and makes it (in some way) real. For me this what miniatures are all about, I watch fantasy films, read books, play computer games and even listen to songs about fantasy worlds, but it's through miniatures that I feel I really have part of those worlds for myself. If a picture is worth a thousand words then surely a miniature is worth a thousand more, for me miniatures bring fantasy to life more than any other medium and that is why this is my 3rd choice.  


4 Heresy Netherlord MK1

Now sadly out of production and replaced with the MK2 Netherlord which isn't nearly as nice, this is one model which I wish I had in collection but don't. I do own the similar albeit smaller 'Azaroth The Fallen One', but this is the one I really wanted. IMHO Heresy produce the best demon miniatures around, to me this is how Demons should look – it's Tim Curry in Legend … with wings!


5 A Citadel Stone Troll

For me these are the definitive Trolls, these are the Trolls that the pictures of the GW Mail Order Trollz from the 90's were based on. They're mean and dumb looking and carry huge stone troll-hammers, apart from one which is posed about to hurl a bolder down at some smaller creature and crush it to a pulp, again these are miniatures which I feel capture all the character of the creatures they represent.


6 Reaper Eyebeast

I've always liked Beholders and their unlicensed D&D-copyright avoiding kin, this is one such miniature from one of my favourite companies, Reaper Miniatures. This isn't just a regular beholder type either, it takes the inherent weirdness I like one step further, the sculptor (Julie Guthrie according to the website) has added extra eyes all over it's body, making it for me the perfect union of the classic beholder and the beholder-like creature from 'Big Trouble in Little China'  


7 A HeroQuest Miniature 

I'm not even sure which one, since I've only picked monsters so far, it should probably be one of the heroes … well not the young wizard I've never been that keen on the wizard really. Having said one of the Heroes, the Great Gargoyle is an awesome miniature and is the one that people remember best when they think of HeroQuest, beside the Barbarian of course …hmm ... can I take the whole game? I took a box-set as my 2nd choice, why not a boxed game?

8 Grendel's Magician's Study

Like my 3rd choice this is another bit Terrain/Dungeon Dressing. Although the photo from Soctia Grendel's website doesn’t show it very well this little set has tones of detail on it.
The sculptor seems to have been heavily inspired by some of the paintings from the old DragonLance series of novels and adventure modules, just look at the carved stone desk and the 3-headed dragon-portal, also the book cases and the magical paraphernalia they are cluttered with can be seen in background of several of the paintings and illustrations from DragonLance.

So that's my 8 miniatures, although there is of course many many miniatures I'd like to include (I havn't even picked any Sci-fi ones yet!), but now for the book and luxury item.

For my book, probably WFRP 1st edition

As for my luxury item, well I'm tempted to say my Girlfriend Madame M, but I believe it's frowned upon in modern culture to referee to attractive women as objects or property. So I think for my luxury item I'd have to go with a Coat D'arms Mega Paint-set so I could paint all the miniatures

Before I finish I'd just like thank everyone who's taken part in this article so far, it's been great reading everyone’s choices and seeing how different and similar all our choices have been so far.  
I'd also like to encourage anyone reading this to make a post here as well