The Taproom
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June 20, 2009 at 1:45 pm #5823
The problem,Master Tree, is that Mithril no longer seem capable of priming with the old nice stuff, but seem to use some sort of diluted plaster instead. If they can’t do better than that then I think we’d be better off without any primer at all. I’ve just had to strip all the primer off the new M figures so that I can get back to the detail before I paint them. I could do without having to do that every time!
Having said that, I fail to understand why Mithril should be having such a problem with their primer. Just change supplier, guys – it isn’t hard!
June 20, 2009 at 3:14 pm #5825Huooommm … well, Master Barliman, that’s exactly what I wanted to express … huooooom …
June 20, 2009 at 5:29 pm #5826I have posted a poll on the official board about this primer…
Please go and vote for this matter, it is no boycott it is no angry or anything but the more we are to vote the more the results and statistics will be significative!
June 20, 2009 at 6:09 pm #5828That´s great. I have just suggested something similar today to Estel in private (!) .
Let´s go there and vote . . .
I do need primer because I paint with oil colours. But I make it in a better way for myself on an unprimed miniature.June 20, 2009 at 6:19 pm #5829HEY FELLOWS !
There are only two votes ! 😡 What´s up ! BE HASTY ! AND ALSO THE TREE !
PS: wasn´t that a music group in the eighties: and also the tree? Somekind of wave, independent-guitar-rock ?June 21, 2009 at 7:16 am #5831(off-topic on) And also the Trees – they are still around: http://www.myspace.com/andalsothetreesofficial (off-topic off) Cheers! 😎
June 21, 2009 at 8:33 am #5832Sorry, master Gildor,
you are an Elf and they can be hasty sometimes, me thinks. I am going to be more Entish as I am growing older and older- maybe some gift from Eru. Anyway I will vote now, as I got the information now. If the primer is so bad and rita.de told me scary things about that primer, I ask myself, why the hell the company sold any figures primed if the primer is of such a bad qualitiy.
Another primer is being woken up by a brass band early in the morning….. primed for the day 😆
June 21, 2009 at 9:17 am #5834Ah, an Entish rock band! I’m surprised our resident Tree has never mentioned them.
June 21, 2009 at 9:29 am #5835Huooommmmmrhuoommmm …. hom … Master Rita.de, just to let you know, you cannot haste a tree (me) …. huommm … I did vote by now … rhuoommm … as for those musicians, I don’t know them …. rhuoommm … though I do like acoustic guitar music very much … rhuoommm… Master Julian Bream, for example … huom
June 21, 2009 at 12:45 pm #5836Huoommmm …. rhuoommm … summer’s come today … just a bit rainy and demp … huoomm … leaves me time for thoughts … there’ll be no Christmas riddle this year … huomm
June 21, 2009 at 1:41 pm #5837I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this?
[imgz url=http://mmp.faerylands.eu/uploads/6_29_helmsdeep1.jpg]http://mmp.faerylands.eu/uploads/thumbs/6_29_helmsdeep1.jpg[/imgz][imgz url=http://mmp.faerylands.eu/uploads/6_helmsdeep_banner.jpg]http://mmp.faerylands.eu/uploads/thumbs/6_helmsdeep_banner.jpg[/imgz]M516 Hooded Half-Orc with spear.
In the first pic he is holding a different shield to the one he has in the Mithril banner. On the pic from the Mithril website he is again holding the shield with the straight ends.
What shield did you guys actually get?June 21, 2009 at 2:30 pm #5838Brilliant, Mr. Watson, brilliant.
I can tell you Holger, that my M516 has got the typical Isengart-shield, that one with the White-Hand-Icon.
I can remember that it was very interesting to me, that this Half-Orc has got some dunnish-icon-shield.
(One of the reasons I have ordered this figure . . . )
Through the confusions of price increases and waiting loops of primer stuffs and TE-decisions I forget this point completely and
did not noticed the “normal” shield . . .
Again, Mr. Watson: brilliant observated !
Look:
[imgz url=http://mmp.faerylands.eu/uploads/32_516_86.jpg]http://mmp.faerylands.eu/uploads/thumbs/32_516_86.jpg[/imgz]This picture shows it´s condition BEFORE the spear brokes . . . 😡
June 21, 2009 at 3:08 pm #5839All that’s happened is that whoever stuck the shields on for the Mithril promo picture gave M516 the shield that actually belongs to M513. All of the figures have the usual hexagonal shield in all the pictures I’ve ever seen, including the very earliest ones I got from The Man – admittedly, the way the light catches the shield of M516 does make it look different, but if you look carefully you can see that it isn’t.
M513’s shield, however, does have a couple of extrra bits of Dunlending-looking decoration that we’ve not seen before, so I shall use these shields for the officers.
June 21, 2009 at 3:48 pm #5840Yes, Master Barli, but the shield of 513 is a round one . . . :rolleyes:
The promo pic shows a hexagonal shield with the White Hand and with two extra applications, on bottom and on top !
This is what the Master Caster and myself had observated . . .Is anybody able to put a pic of 513´s round shield in here. It would interesting to see it in detail.
June 21, 2009 at 4:41 pm #5841Sorry, I mistyped ‘513’ when I meant 515. The shield of 515 is the one with the extra decor at top and bottom, and as I said, it has been wrongly glued on 516 in the promo picture. Didn’t you notice when your figures arrived that the Half-orc axeman is the one with a decorated shield?
513, of course, is a Rohirrim, so has a round shield as usual.
June 21, 2009 at 4:49 pm #5842Ahh, ok, I see. You are right, Master Barli about the shield. Unfortunately this one, the M515, was a victim about the price increase . . . :rolleyes:
So, is anybody able to put a pic of 515´s shield in here. It would interesting to see it in detail.
But that round shield of course also . . .June 21, 2009 at 5:55 pm #5843Huooommmm … Master Barliman is absolutely right, though he did confuse …. huoommm … that shield that differs from the others and of which you’re talking about is part of the M515 ( the one with the axe) … rhuoomm … of course he’s meant to be an officer as you can see having a look at the helmet … the application at the front of the helmet reveals him as being a Half-orc officer … huoomm … you might even compare the design of the helmet of the Half-orc- standard bearer …. the same design of a helmet was used with the lost Mw347 Angrenost guard captain (on foot) …. back to the shield again: the Dunlending chieftain (LT12) also holds a shield with more applications above and below the ‘white hand’ … huoomm … so the M515 definitely is an officer, but one of a minor rank to a chieftain … rhuoommm … that’s all I can guess … huoom
June 21, 2009 at 6:07 pm #5844All absolutely correct, Master Tree. I must remember not to drink so much scrumpy before I try to type things.
June 21, 2009 at 10:53 pm #5846Barliman wrote:What Rohan(ish) figures are they, then? Are we talking about the same Gamezone? – they only seem to do heavily armoured Gothic jobs as far as cavalry are concerned. Or have I missed something?I’ll check on the website (artemis Black) and let you know, Barli – the figures in question are not heavily armoured, but I can’t think what they are called. :rolleyes:
June 22, 2009 at 5:05 am #5847I’ve already looked on the actual Gamezone site, as well as Artemis Black and DR Gaming – I think you’ve got the GmZ range mixed up with someone else’s products, Master Dave. If I’m wrong I’ll eat your hat (well, I’m not going to waste one of my own).
Artemis Black are pretty useless as a supplier, by the way, or so it seems to me. I’ve sent several emails to their two addresses over the past few weeks and not had a reply to a single one of them, so I’ve given up with them and now buy my GmZ figures from DR Gaming (Gamezone’s postage from the Continent is way too high!).
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