Just though I'd inquire how many of you use miniatures regularly in Pendragon?

Back when my group was playing 1st edition one of the players went out and bought some miniatures for us. He painted them up with the colors and shield devices to represent our knights, one for foot and one for horseback. Really made for a nice addition to the experience, and even when they weren't directly in use it was nice to have them there.

Anyone have links to good miniatures companies for Arthurian/medieval gaming?

http://gspendragon.com/figureslinks.html

Hmm, having a specially painted figure is often the kiss of death....

I regularly use miniatures (of some description) for gaming. A few figures (or markers) can set out positions and explanations that would take much longer to describe and I think therefore speed up gameplay. Occassionally I will mark out terrain on a square grid - sometimes it helps monsters, sometimes the terrain is an important part of the scenario, like trackways across shallow marshes, or a magically cold area that gets more intense (requiring Con rolls) the further in one gets to try and kill the ice witch.

Most wargame figures are 28mm and you could look at companies likeL

Wargames Foundry - http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/main.asp - although thier prices have got expensive I feel of late.
Front Rank - http://www.frontrank.com/4_lev2_Medieval.asp
Gripping Beast - http://www.grippingbeast.com/shop.php?CatID=227
Thunderbolt Mountain Miniatures - https://www.thunderboltmountain.com/index.php?cPath=2 (Contains a major proportion of the few mounted medieval women figures in existence). These I think are the same figures as were made by lance and laser as the offical figures, although not all figures have been re-released by Thunderbolt mountain, and Thunderbolt added some more.

For things like bishops and "monsters" then I've found Reaper - http://www.reapermini.com/ often quite useful. They do what is in my opinion a really nice leaping frog type monster which makes an ideal water leaper.

Much will depend upon personal style which is why it's good to look at them first if you can.

Games Workshop Brettonians can be a source of Knights as well and older styles can often be found cheap on ebay as they are no longer warhammer fantasy tournament legal. Inspired by John Boorman's film Excalibur I was going to convert some figures by using bits from their Empire Knights range, which wear historically inspired 15th century armour, rather than the 13th and 14th century armour of the Brettonians.

There are other makers of wargame and roleplaying figures that I could mention. Much may depend on where you live, and if you are prepared to mail order stuff, or can get to a wargames show as to what you end up with.

An alternative - given that the aim for me is to mark out spatial relationships are such things as:
~Lego Knights - although a quick look at the current site suggests that these have gone a bit "fantasy" with trolls and goblins.
~Playmobil Figures - although I've dsicovered that there is a collectors market out there and ebay prices aren't as cheap as I thought.
~Plastic knights. Look in toyshops and see what they have. These can range from the cheap bag of knights playset from Hong Kong to more expensive (and bigger - 90mm) pre painted figures from schleich - http://www.schleich-s.com/en/action_figures/collectables/product_range/the_world_of_knights/index.html. I have a knights castle playset - with about 20 different 1 inch hight coloured "knight" bits of plastic - there's knights, towers, dragons - which I can drop in a bag if I'm gaming away in a public environment where space might be tight.

At other times I've used homemade cardboard counters, with specific heraldic shields on using some of the heraldy software that is out there.

For Continuum 2010 - where I want some bigger figures to handle than 28mm, and I can't afford Schleich or Playmobil - I've bought some Italeri (soft) plastic knights - http://www.italeri.com/VisualizzaProdotto.aspx?PROD=01025 and http://www.italeri.com/VisualizzaProdotto.aspx?PROD=01864 - which I will paint - in only a few simple colours and basic, so there is a red knight, green knight etc, which will make for easy understanding of spatial relationships.

Chris

http://gspendragon.com/figureslinks.html




Thanks Greg.

In retrospect it could well have been those L&L licensed Pendragon minis we were using all that time ago.

Tom Meier's sculpts match a great looking nicely detailed style with a very reasonable price for foot and mounted figures in pewter.

I regularly use miniatures (of some description) for gaming.


Thanks for the xtra links Chris.

Those italieri sculpts look very good judging by the sprue pics:

http://www.italeri.com/Kit.aspx?PROD=01043
http://www.italeri.com/Kit.aspx?PROD=01773

They even have a tournament box set here which looks like it includes a jousting list and spectator box...

http://www.italeri.com/VisualizzaProdotto.aspx?PROD=00911
http://www.italeri.com/Kit.aspx?PROD=00911

I regularly use miniatures (of some description) for gaming.

Thanks for the xtra links Chris.

Those italieri sculpts look very good judging by the sprue pics:

http://www.italeri.com/Kit.aspx?PROD=01043
http://www.italeri.com/Kit.aspx?PROD=01773

They even have a tournament box set here which looks like it includes a jousting list and spectator box...

http://www.italeri.com/VisualizzaProdotto.aspx?PROD=00911
http://www.italeri.com/Kit.aspx?PROD=00911


One think to watch with Italeri is that some figures will be 1/32 - which means that a man is around two and bit inches tall, whereas the 1/72 stuff (such as the tournament set) the foot man is just under an inch tall.

Chris

Their 1/72 or 25mm ought to be ok. I'd imagine the average range for most role-playing purposes is 25mm to 32mm figures, though manufacturers tend to vary a little from the stated sizes.

Could always use 25mm and save the 32mm figures for the Saxons. :)

Looks like they have another tournament/training list set here:

http://www.italeri.com/VisualizzaProdotto.aspx?PROD=00912

Looks like they do some nice period saracen and arabian troops too.

I've been using miniatures for the game I've been running. I've been writing session reports with photos over on www.rpggeek.com (although we're on a break at the moment) - here's a link to a particularly picture-heavy report -

http://rpg.geekdo.com/thread/509117/the-cardiff-boys-vs-pendragon-in-the-year-504-th

The models I use are mostly Games Workshop miniatures. They're a bit of a hodge podge but the Bretonnian army and Lord of the Rings Riders of Rohan troops are useful for Pendragon.

aha! I've missed reading about the exploits of the Cardiff boys. Looks like I have some catching up to do.

Any ideas about how to make shields easily swappable on painted pewter miniatures? I'd like to be able to just replace the shields (with coats of arms) on painted models to make them represent men with different heraldry.