BPI & The Ice-Cream Tub
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True Trolls (Repost)
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Ral Partha 1979
Catalogue:
Armory Buyers Guide To Fantasy Miniatures v1.1 pgA3 (1983) Ral Partha Personalities 01-063 True Trolls
Citadel Compendium v1 pg48 (1983) Ral Partha RP5 Monsters - Large Creatures - Trolls
Armory Buyers Guide To Fantasy Miniatures v1.1 pgD3 (1983) Best Of Ral Partha box 10-301 Demons, Trolls & Orcs (10)
Ral Partha 1985 pg15 The Best Of Ral Partha 10-301 (Demons, Trolls, Orcs & Goblins) True Troll
Ral Partha 1983 Personalities 01-063 True Troll (2) by Tom Meier.jpg
Ral Partha 1984 p23 The Best Of Ral Partha 10-301 (Demon, Trolls, Orcs & Goblins) True Troll.jpg
20mm base edge for scale. The True Trolls, as they turn out to be named, are back. The one with the club seems to have remained in production for a while after the flail was retired. So four True Trolls in the army providing muscle for the Orcs & Goblins.
Amazon warrior
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Wow! It\'s a absolute treasure trove! 
I like the dude with the lantern, he\'s cool!
I like the dude with the lantern, he\'s cool!
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So that\'s the figures with moulded bases, time to move on to the last handful of Ice-Cream Tub contents, two groups of minis. I\'ll begin with the Fantasy stuff in a moment.
I think that\'s the whole 1979ish Ice-Cream Tub Orc & Goblin Army accounted for though, so, a recap:
02 Hill Giants
04 True Trolls
12 Goblin Archers
48 Goblin Spear-Swords
01 Goblin Standard
05 Goblin Captains (Club/Halberd)
02 Goblin Wolf Riders
29 Red Orcs (should be 40 of them)
01 Orc Standard
02 Hobgoblin Standard/Captain
106 metal figures in the army, which with the Swords & Spells rules could be used 10:1, giving 1060 troops. Throw in a handful of Player Characters running around as 1:1 figures with 1st ed. AD&D skills, spells & abilities, plus an opposing force & get ready to do some serious mental arithmetic!
So on to some minis with slots...
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I think that\'s the whole 1979ish Ice-Cream Tub Orc & Goblin Army accounted for though, so, a recap:
02 Hill Giants
04 True Trolls
12 Goblin Archers
48 Goblin Spear-Swords
01 Goblin Standard
05 Goblin Captains (Club/Halberd)
02 Goblin Wolf Riders
29 Red Orcs (should be 40 of them)
01 Orc Standard
02 Hobgoblin Standard/Captain
106 metal figures in the army, which with the Swords & Spells rules could be used 10:1, giving 1060 troops. Throw in a handful of Player Characters running around as 1:1 figures with 1st ed. AD&D skills, spells & abilities, plus an opposing force & get ready to do some serious mental arithmetic!
So on to some minis with slots...
B.
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Hi Amazon Warrior, cheers for commenting, yes, that\'s a nice Nick Lund figure & the basic paint job complements it nicely I reckon (it\'s not by me!). He\'s got a great expression on his face. I like these old adventurer rather than army minis.
Just about got all these pics done over the weekend & transfered the figures into a shiny new case so last night I finally picked up a paint brush again! Only a week or so off but it feels strange getting going again. A meaty Skaven tail & some Druid flesh done so far, I\'ll add to my WIP thread once there\'s progress sufficient for pictorial documentation.
Hope you\'re enjoying seeing some dusty old lead everyone, should all be posted by the weeks end.
B.
Just about got all these pics done over the weekend & transfered the figures into a shiny new case so last night I finally picked up a paint brush again! Only a week or so off but it feels strange getting going again. A meaty Skaven tail & some Druid flesh done so far, I\'ll add to my WIP thread once there\'s progress sufficient for pictorial documentation.
Hope you\'re enjoying seeing some dusty old lead everyone, should all be posted by the weeks end.
B.
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Just a quick blast through some Citadel slots then...
Archer
I like this figure, as you can see by the fact that one got snaffled a few years ago for use as a character figure, hence him being basecosted (well, mostly).
Axeman
I assume that he once had an axe in hand.
Cleric (Citadel Clerics - SOL C Series Pages - Ancient Word Female)
I think her eyes are a little high or the back of her head is missing. Not the most feminine figure I\'ve ever seen.
Epstein
I don\'t know who this Epstein chap is, perhaps relates to an adventure published in White Dwarf? His nose has been smashed flat as well.
Fighter
Goblin
Hobgoblin
I have a few of this range painted but this looks lke a worthy commander, he\'ll show up in my WIP thread at some point.
Lesser Goblin
Wizard
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Archer
I like this figure, as you can see by the fact that one got snaffled a few years ago for use as a character figure, hence him being basecosted (well, mostly).
Axeman
I assume that he once had an axe in hand.
Cleric (Citadel Clerics - SOL C Series Pages - Ancient Word Female)
I think her eyes are a little high or the back of her head is missing. Not the most feminine figure I\'ve ever seen.
Epstein
I don\'t know who this Epstein chap is, perhaps relates to an adventure published in White Dwarf? His nose has been smashed flat as well.
Fighter
Goblin
Hobgoblin
I have a few of this range painted but this looks lke a worthy commander, he\'ll show up in my WIP thread at some point.
Lesser Goblin
Wizard
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Fighter mid-level / high-level (Citadel TSR AD&D Series ADD2 Fighter With Longsword - Alan/Michael Perry)
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Fighter
Fighter
25mm base. I don\'t have the low-level one of the three.
Illusionist low/mid/high-level (Citadel TSR AD&D Series ADD5 Illusionist - Aly Morrison)
Base:
Illusionist
Illusionist
Illusionist / TSR 1985
25mm base. The high level one has a missing hand, not even holding a staff, just his hand with a ring on the forefinger. The wire around the low-level one\'s wrist is a mystery to me, presumably it represented something in a game I didn\'t participate in.
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There were some Mega-City One Judges in a money bag on top of the older figures...
Judge (Citadel JD4 Mega-City One Judges - Judge Bambra)
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Judge / I.P.C. 1985
Judge (Citadel JD4 Mega-City One Judges - Judge Giant)
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Judge / I.P.C. 1985
Judge (Citadel JD4 Mega-City One Judges - Judge Hershey)
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Judge / I.P.C. 1985
Judge Dredd on Lawmaster (Citadel JD1 - Judge Dredd (later release, blister included Dredd & the 3 part Lawmaster Bike)
And that\'s those.
Only one figure to go & the contents of the Ice-Cream Tub are done, phew.
Hopefully tomorrow...
Judge (Citadel JD4 Mega-City One Judges - Judge Bambra)
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Judge / I.P.C. 1985
Judge (Citadel JD4 Mega-City One Judges - Judge Giant)
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Judge / I.P.C. 1985
Judge (Citadel JD4 Mega-City One Judges - Judge Hershey)
Base:
Judge / I.P.C. 1985
Judge Dredd on Lawmaster (Citadel JD1 - Judge Dredd (later release, blister included Dredd & the 3 part Lawmaster Bike)
And that\'s those.
Only one figure to go & the contents of the Ice-Cream Tub are done, phew.
Hopefully tomorrow...
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Armory Buyers Guide To Fantasy Miniatures v1.1 pgC6 (1983) Asgard Miniatures - Fantasy Monsters FM85 Lord Of Chaos
20mm base for scale.
So here\'s the final figure from the Ice-Cream Tub. Not the Alan Perry large metal giant or some other rare figure lol just this rather battered Chaos Warrior. It turns out that the riderless horse I posted previously was the mount for the jockey version of this figure, who was seen in the tub in recent years but didn\'t make it to me, although there\'s time yet
I\'m posting this one last because it has a special significance for The Ice-Cream Man & was the prompt for this thread.
The Ice-Cream Man says...
\"I can\'t actually remember the character name now - just that he was a Half-Orc Fighter/Assasin 10/12ish last time I payed him. Back in the days of First Edition AD&D! He only led his Army into battle a couple of times before we gave up on trying to make the rules fun to play with. By the time we started using figures in ordinary games rather than just pen and paper (mid 80\'s?) he had been retired to his castle never to fight again for years.
All badly painted with Humbrol and Airfix Enamels, by me. I cringe everytime BPI shows me another one with that dreadful orange gloss on it - I have no explanation for it, except youth. Can you imagine buying figures based on those catalogue sketches and fuzzy stamp sized Black & White photo\'s!?\"
I wanted pictures of it for colour reference as my intention is to clean him up & give him a shiny new coat of paint, properly based & presentable as a gift. A thank you for the other figures in the tub to the original owner. However, I need to learn how to display base minis first so it may take a while to get him going. I hope that I can get a nice ruby sparkly jewel effect on the helmet skull, perhaps the one on the scabbard as well. We\'ll see.
So I hope you\'ve enjoyed this little project log, the figures are photographed & largely catalogued. Of course now I\'ll find another stray lol so there is potential for an update but for now I\'m done, there\'s painting to get on with!
B.
