Schleich Knights?
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frankthedm
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For what metal equivalents and huge rares go for, those toys are still a good deal.
I have not seen those Safari Brand dragons, are they carried by Target? The green dragon and the Pheonix look promising. Papo toys has a great two headed dragon...
The Papo and Schliech humans make fine giants. Doubly so if you upgrade your giants to huge...
I have not seen those Safari Brand dragons, are they carried by Target? The green dragon and the Pheonix look promising. Papo toys has a great two headed dragon...
The Papo and Schliech humans make fine giants. Doubly so if you upgrade your giants to huge...
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Blackwind
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Yes, these are awesome! Be sure to check out the Papo (http://www.happyhentoys.com/a_Papo/Index-Papo.html) brand as well. One of the players in my group had his birthday last week and I gave him two of the Papo knights (with mounts), which I had found at our local toystore. I wish I had had these when I was a kid. The knights I wouldn't get much use out of, now, except for guarding my bookshelves, but the dragons and other monsters would be *great* for D&D. It reminds me of the way my friend's uncle used to run the game, back when I was 12 or so... he had a big tackle box full of random things he had found, like those cheap plastic flies for stirges. My 2nd level paladin fell prey to one of those, LOL. And I had spent hours writing out his code.
Ah, those were the days. </nostalgia>
Ah, those were the days. </nostalgia>
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The Schleich knights are just a little too big for me, but I don't run a lot of giant-themed games (and I like more bestial giants in general). If I ran more AE, it might be worth it to pick up one or two to use as a Giant 3/Champion of Giants 10, on an advanced HD Radont. But how many of those can you really field in a game? (My guess is 4.)
By the by, the new Planet Hulk action figure makes a great Chorrim Gladiator. Not in scale, unfortuantely, but I've been using Hulk Heroclix for my chorrim for some time. I think the fig is like 6" to 8", its really too big to even use as a Storm Giant, but it still looks cool. (I once converted Ian Nottingham and Fathom action figures to represent two of my long-time 2e characters, which stands out as one of the dorkiest things I have ever done. But I still have them, they still look cool, and for a time I had them, the Heroclix versions of those characters for minis, and pictures from those comic books-- photoshopped-- on my character sheet. And that was pretty cool.)
For me, the best stuff Schleich makes isn't the knights (which are a little big), or the dragons (which are a little cartoony), its the animals. Their elephants, rhinos, dinosaurs and so on are beautiful, and they make a scale that fts perfectly in with the D&D minis. If you look at GW warbeasts, you're looking at dropping $50, minimum. But the Schleich's you can get for five bucks or so (still expensive in plastic animal terms, but unbelievably cheap in gaming terms) and build a quick howdah yourself. For my money, the best Schleich animal is the squid.
Even so, I find it difficult to pay premium Schleich prices. I've been able to fill out my monster roster with plenty of giant rats, spiders, snakes, lizards, frogs, dinos, and dragons from my local dollar store. I also just loaded up on dinosaur skeletons the other day, I have around 30 or so of them now. Pefect for the necromancer on the move.
By the by, the new Planet Hulk action figure makes a great Chorrim Gladiator. Not in scale, unfortuantely, but I've been using Hulk Heroclix for my chorrim for some time. I think the fig is like 6" to 8", its really too big to even use as a Storm Giant, but it still looks cool. (I once converted Ian Nottingham and Fathom action figures to represent two of my long-time 2e characters, which stands out as one of the dorkiest things I have ever done. But I still have them, they still look cool, and for a time I had them, the Heroclix versions of those characters for minis, and pictures from those comic books-- photoshopped-- on my character sheet. And that was pretty cool.)
For me, the best stuff Schleich makes isn't the knights (which are a little big), or the dragons (which are a little cartoony), its the animals. Their elephants, rhinos, dinosaurs and so on are beautiful, and they make a scale that fts perfectly in with the D&D minis. If you look at GW warbeasts, you're looking at dropping $50, minimum. But the Schleich's you can get for five bucks or so (still expensive in plastic animal terms, but unbelievably cheap in gaming terms) and build a quick howdah yourself. For my money, the best Schleich animal is the squid.
Even so, I find it difficult to pay premium Schleich prices. I've been able to fill out my monster roster with plenty of giant rats, spiders, snakes, lizards, frogs, dinos, and dragons from my local dollar store. I also just loaded up on dinosaur skeletons the other day, I have around 30 or so of them now. Pefect for the necromancer on the move.
frankthedm
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Which ones? Any of these? Bone coloured one piece rubber about huge size, yellowish bone snap together about gargantuan size or soft white rubber about the right size for a large mount?phindar said:
The first four I picked up were a yellowish, soft plastic "no-glue" snap together models, two to a pack, from I believe a Smithsonian educational toy line. Huge size, a tricertops, tyranosaur, megaraptor and stegosaurus. I picked these up about two or three years ago at a Michael's craft store and I have never seen these models since then, but I always swore if I saw any more dino skelies, I would pick them up. I eventually painted these, and constructed a howdah for the triceratops big enough to fit four Medium minis. It makes for a good mini on the battlefield, and I've used them several times, from warbeasts in undead armies to obstacles in the gunfight at the Museum of Natural History.
A few weeks ago I stopped at a Big Lots and found bone colored, one-piece dino skeleton figs four to a pack for $3. Most of them were two quadrapeds and two bipeds, but one pack had a pterodactyl in it. These were smaller than the other models, made of yellowish plastic with a dirty brown wash that gives them a pretty good "dug up bone" look. These were closer to Large in size, with the triceratops being about two and a half to three inches from horns to tail, and the bipedal ones being a bit taller. They could pass for Large or Huge, depending on how you base them. Anyway, smelling blood in the water, I started hitting all my local Big Lots and found the same dinos in two-packs for a buck-fifty, which is when I pretty much cleaned them out. That brings my current total of skeletal dinosaurs up to 26 Large sized ones, and the four Huges I picked up years ago. The Huges were about $3.50 apiece ($7 a box for two), and the Larges were $.75 each.
The other thing I found at Big Lots were these plastic castle playsets for $5, for a line called Darkness Warriors. They have two figures that look like a generic Ram-Man and Skeletor and a small castle, but the great thing about these are the extras. A Large dragon, a Large skeletal dragon, a skeletal hand bursting through the ground, a plastic cage, a winged Imp creature, a pile of skulls and a bunch of weapons and standards. Most of it is made of a soft bendy plastic that I don't think would be paintable, but the level of detail on the cage and the dragons is otherwise surprisingly good.
As you can tell, I did a little post-Holiday splurging, but I regret nothing. All I need now is to come up with and then run a scenario that involves 30 skeletal dinosaurs. Should be fun.
A few weeks ago I stopped at a Big Lots and found bone colored, one-piece dino skeleton figs four to a pack for $3. Most of them were two quadrapeds and two bipeds, but one pack had a pterodactyl in it. These were smaller than the other models, made of yellowish plastic with a dirty brown wash that gives them a pretty good "dug up bone" look. These were closer to Large in size, with the triceratops being about two and a half to three inches from horns to tail, and the bipedal ones being a bit taller. They could pass for Large or Huge, depending on how you base them. Anyway, smelling blood in the water, I started hitting all my local Big Lots and found the same dinos in two-packs for a buck-fifty, which is when I pretty much cleaned them out. That brings my current total of skeletal dinosaurs up to 26 Large sized ones, and the four Huges I picked up years ago. The Huges were about $3.50 apiece ($7 a box for two), and the Larges were $.75 each.
The other thing I found at Big Lots were these plastic castle playsets for $5, for a line called Darkness Warriors. They have two figures that look like a generic Ram-Man and Skeletor and a small castle, but the great thing about these are the extras. A Large dragon, a Large skeletal dragon, a skeletal hand bursting through the ground, a plastic cage, a winged Imp creature, a pile of skulls and a bunch of weapons and standards. Most of it is made of a soft bendy plastic that I don't think would be paintable, but the level of detail on the cage and the dragons is otherwise surprisingly good.
As you can tell, I did a little post-Holiday splurging, but I regret nothing. All I need now is to come up with and then run a scenario that involves 30 skeletal dinosaurs. Should be fun.
frankthedm
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Darkness warriors: The imp, hand and cage were all sculpts from Make Knight. Several parts of that castle also borrow from the Mage knight castle set ups. Given the rubbery plastic, spray on primer should get paint to stick to them.
The Skeletal dragon was originally packed with the female skeleton Shreik from the Skeleton Warriors toy line.
The Skeletal dragon was originally packed with the female skeleton Shreik from the Skeleton Warriors toy line.
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