THE TAPROOM 2

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August 12, 2011 at 7:59 am #19402
ddaines
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Barliman wrote:

Personally (being a cynic by nature) I begin to have serious misgivings regarding the size of Mithril’s profit margin – are we having the wool pulled over our eyes, and being taken for gullible mugs? Master Arthadan’s information certainly makes the whole issue begin to smell a bit suspicious – unless, of course, the MEE licence costs an absolute fortune. Does anyone know what Mithril have to pay for this?

I wonder if we could find out under the Freedom of Information Act
August 12, 2011 at 8:08 am #19403
ddaines
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http://thunderboltmountain.com/serendipity/

Have a look at TM’s web site – you may have to search about a bit, but Tom Meir quite often posts images of his ‘Greens’ the majority of which are Mithril scale with some at 1/48th scale.

The level of detail is quite outstanding on these sculpts.

Personally I think some of the elves do seem to look a little bit ‘out’ in some aspects but the detailing, wow!
August 12, 2011 at 8:47 am #19404
Thingol
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This guy is very good sculptor…. maybe one day I’ll buy few miniatures from him…..
August 12, 2011 at 8:50 am #19405
Thingol
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About Middle earth enterprise ! It is difficult to speculate, but I am sure that their license does not cost less than 10000 GBP per year. Especially after the popularization of the book through the PJ movies. Money smells like a teen spirit….
August 12, 2011 at 1:00 pm #19422
Thingol
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…. let’s go a bit out of this last debate…. I see we have here new active member…. welcome Master Quendil ! …. and please choose one drink on my account… cheers !
August 12, 2011 at 1:04 pm #19424
Thingol
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…excellent idea. I can only hope that Master Barliman has Honey Ale… hobbits like it….
August 12, 2011 at 1:10 pm #19425
Barliman
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You know that Honey ale is brewed from bees’ piss, don’t you? Tell you what, I’ll pour you both a muscular, debilitating scrumpy instead, so that you can sleep out the rest of your working day until the weekend. And welcome, Master Quendil.

I notice, by the way, that it’s gone very quiet in here, which I assume means that the Tree has finally gone on holiday. (I wonder where trees go?)
August 12, 2011 at 1:12 pm #19426
hsf62
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Are you ok with furballs in your ale? :rolleyes:
Spciality of Master Barliman…. 😆
August 12, 2011 at 1:15 pm #19427
Thingol
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Bee’s piss… 😆 it looks complicate to collect enough for one mug….
August 12, 2011 at 3:04 pm #19428
Barliman
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Not a problem, they have very weak bladders.
August 12, 2011 at 3:16 pm #19430
ddaines
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That’s why I never drink water – fish piss in it 😆 (borrowed quote).

Yes, welcome Master Quendil you found your password then?
August 12, 2011 at 4:38 pm #19437
Gavin
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The Dark Sword Minis mentioned above:

http://www.darkswordminiatures.com/

Are in 30mm scale, but they are Mithril sized. They have four main sculptors, one of whom, Dennis Mize died some years ago. Before he died he was making quite “old school” figures, and had worked for Reaper and Ral Partha. So if you want some scantily clad buxom lady with some sort of stick, he’s your man. The others include Tom Meier, he of Thunderbolt Mountain fame, and Jeff Grace whose work sort of exists between Meier’s artistry and Mize’s vision of fantasy art.

The figures are all metal, though the website often displays the “greens” in advance. The paint jobs tend to use NMM techniques, which makes them look somewhat more plastic-y.

A lot of the George RR Martin (He of Game of Thrones fame) collection:
http://www.darkswordminiatures.com/mainwebsite_html/grrm.htm

Would not look terribly out of place in some visions of Middle-earth.

Gavin
August 13, 2011 at 2:36 am #19454
twrich
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Welcome to Barli’s Taproom, Master Quendil. I must warn you that only the “already drunk” drink Barli’s scrumpy . . . and they usually awake with fur or a piece of rat tail in their mouth.

Otherwise, this is a fiendly group with diverse interest, opinions, and connections . . . but you probably already know that or you never would have found us!

And very nice links David and Gavin!!!
August 13, 2011 at 6:30 am #19455
Barliman
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Gildor Inglorion wrote:

by minifigs you mean Heritage? I did not know this range but … honestly.. I don’t think I miss a lot of things in terms of quality … but well well, this topic derivates into something else and should be discussed at your place master Butterburr, not in the who’s who section

Quite right, Master Gildor, we shouldn’t start holding non-related conversations in the wrong places – though since the subject was raised in the “Whos’ Who” page it was rather hard not to reply to it there! If we’d have moved straight over here we’d have spilt our scrumpy! Better to drink the froth off first … I wouldn’t want the floors between there and here to be stained (or eaten away, more likely).

However, as regards the Minifigs range, no – when I said Minififgs, I meant Minifigs (full name Miniature Figurines), based in Potsmouth at the time. They’re owned by Caliver Books now.
August 13, 2011 at 6:57 am #19458
Barliman
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Have you had any “lead rot” problems with them yet? A lot of the ones I’ve seen are now little better than lumps of misshapen lead!
August 13, 2011 at 7:05 am #19459
Gildor
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well some pics I saw on the miniature workshop seem to have suffered a lot from lead rott…

as for collecting… I am quite a fan and collector of…. Sauron representation, and I am still after the two references (from citadel or ral partha) of Sauron afoot holding the palandir, and Sauron on his trone (with the big eye and lots of roots on the throne)
they are not special nor really beautiful at all but well these are Sauron….

also, the Necromancer Sauron from GW is awful and I decided not to get it, but I have the one from the Last Alliance battlefield

and I’m quite happy to have suggested (and won) two Sauron representation from the Mithril GF range

in the end master Daines may be right, I am somewhat a mouth of Sauron lol

(PS : @Gavin : damn if I show my wife pics from Tom Meier figurines from the Game of Thrones she will ask me to buy the full range… she has become addict at RR.Martin Games of Thrones recently and keeps reading all the books…)
August 13, 2011 at 7:53 am #19460
Gildor
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well the bakshi film at least had a Gildor in it if I remember well :p but that being said, true it has not aged well at all… besides it has never been completed… and ends up approximatly at the half of the second LotR tome : the victory at Helm’s Deep)
August 13, 2011 at 8:05 am #19461
Barliman
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Gildor Inglorion wrote:

as for collecting… I am quite a fan and collector of…. Sauron representation, and I am still after the two references (from citadel or ral partha) of Sauron afoot holding the palandir, and Sauron on his trone (with the big eye and lots of roots on the throne)

These come up on eBay quite often – I bought them about six months ago, and paid very little. The standing figure is quite nice (though I’m not sure why he’s balancing the palantir on his wrist – presumably because, being “invisible”, he hasn’t got any hands, so the designer didn’t know where else to put it), but the throne of skulls is very silly, more Robert E. Howard than Tolkien!
August 13, 2011 at 8:16 am #19462
Barliman
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Gildor Inglorion wrote:

well the bakshi film at least had a Gildor in it if I remember well :p but that being said, true it has not aged well at all… besides it has never been completed… and ends up approximatly at the half of the second LotR tome : the victory at Helm’s Deep)

A cartoon version of “The Return of the King” that was nominally (but wasn’t really) a sequel was released by Warner Brothers in 1979, but has very little to commend it. It’s best described as cheap and tacky. JRRT must have been grateful to have died before it was released. Still, it’s interesting as a naive “period piece”.
August 13, 2011 at 9:04 am #19463
Wirilome
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Gildor Inglorion wrote:

(PS : @Gavin : damn if I show my wife pics from Tom Meier figurines from the Game of Thrones she will ask me to buy the full range… she has become addict at RR.Martin Games of Thrones recently and keeps reading all the books…)

I may like the game of thrones books (and video as it’s exactly the book) but it’s still tiny bits of metal.

After looking at them all, I think that one of the best one is Ser Loras Tyrell, the Knight of Flowers, with his highly decorated armor.

(after some more looking around… sorry Gildor… I WANT a Snail cartographer!)

(you may note that the price is kinda… competitive)
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