Warhammer Fantasy Regiments - 3rd Edition plastics

[ManicMan]

Aren't Horn Nocks a sheath, the whole tip of the bow would be covered. These are definite loops or rings?

I always saw them as the edges of them cause trying to sculpt the tips to be just a tiny bit thicker? possible but surely, you just hint at the edge of them with the ring. Like how alot of bracers kinda just look like the edges (top and bottom) are sculpted but the main part is often pretty much the same thickness as the rest of the arm (well, if they are that type.. trying to think of a good example off the top of my head, bearing in mind these are old plastics more then metal) or some gauntlets are just the cuff and the hand isn't much different in size then an ungloved hand.

but yeah, could be wrong.

Oh and 'Bob Naismith' and friends. He is around and contactable last I knew.

 

[Michael Stockin]

Oh and 'Bob Naismith' and friends. He is around and contactable last I knew.

Ooh I will drop him an e-mail.
Be back with answer soonish I hope.

 

[Fimm McCool]

I also have always thought they were metal caps to the ends of the bows.

 

[Brother Meredith]

It really doesn’t matter, but interesting how entrenched one’s assumptions can be!

 

[The Serene Badger]

I've always called them the nock ends on my bow. The horn nock was a piece of horn added into the nock on the arrow, rather than the bow, to stop the string splitting the arrow shaft.

 

[Slave to Darkness]

The picture inside the cover of the 4th ed rulebook (Empire, Bretonnia and Elves Vs Undead) has bowman on chariot, that's the only bow I've seen that hasn't got the rings painted silver. Now I'm unsure how to paint mine.

 

[The Serene Badger]

The picture inside the cover of the 4th ed rulebook (Empire, Bretonnia and Elves Vs Undead) has bowman on chariot, that's the only bow I've seen that hasn't got the rings painted silver. Now I'm unsure how to paint mine.

However you like. Bows often had reinforced ends

 

[Michael Stockin]

There we go. I am incorrect.

I just thought that a tip would be flush or near to, rather than so pronounced.

More like seen here:

Sufficiently flush that they would only need to be painted rather than sculpted.
Shows what I know...

Or IF sculpted, like this?

Is this going to be one of those 'after all these years!' type revelations?

Apparently not


Anyway, sorry for the diversion.
I will away and hide now.

 

[Brother Meredith]

No need to apologise! Thanks for reaching out to Mr Naismith!

 

[Slave to Darkness]

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There we go. I am incorrect.

I just thought that a tip would be flush or near to, rather than so pronounced.

More like seen here:

Sufficiently flush that they would only need to be painted rather than sculpted.
Shows what I know...

Or IF sculpted, like this?

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Apparently not


Anyway, sorry for the diversion.
I will away and hide now.

The price of the TK skellies 😱

 

[Michael Stockin]

They are only about £1.50 each?

 

[Slave to Darkness]

They are only about £1.50 each?

Yea but coughing up big money in one go though is painful on the wallet. I'll see what my sprue dealers on eBay have in stock. I quite fancy some bowmen on horses, can never have too many mounted units.

 

[Michael Stockin]

Yea but coughing up big money in one go though is painful on the wallet.

Fair.

 

[Slave to Darkness]

So the rings and the tips of the bow are supposed to be metal then?

Can I be bothered to paint the tips? Who knows. 🤣

 

[The Serene Badger]

So the rings and the tips of the bow are supposed to be metal then?

Can I be bothered to paint the tips? Who knows. 🤣

Or whipped cord set with resin, or horn. Go for whatever colour you like.

 

[The Serene Badger]

Lots of bows were just wood with the ends carved. I doubt the undead went overboard on bow making and fletching. (Now I've got an image in my head of an skeleton fletcher getting really cranky that the zombies keep dropping body parts in his glue)

 

[ManicMan]

well, they do go in for arts and crafts on their own custom banners ^_^

 

[The Serene Badger]

well, they do go in for arts and crafts on their own custom banners ^_^

I suppose they do have the time

 

[dieselmonkey]

I know they've been done before and far better (including dioramas for goodness sake!) but over the holidays I did manage to finish one mini project - painting one each of the Warhammer Fantasy Regiments races. So here are my efforts and my best attempt at a box art mock up too!
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I have loads of fond memories of these, both playing with and against, and I've been using them as a way to motivate myself whenever I got fed up with whatever I was painting. So I'm going to kind of miss having them on the painting desk - although I don't have enough figures (or desire!) to do all the variants.

Although it did have me thinking of what other plastics there were of that vintage? Notwithstanding the games (Hero quest, Advanced Heroquest, Dungeon quest, Questquest etc. which I will not be doing as that way leads to madness) I could only think of the Plastic Horde/Army skeletons, Psychostyrene Dwarf and Drastic Plastic Orc. I have the first 2 from back in the day so I'll add those to the pile. Are there any others I've missed? And does anyone have Drastic Plastic Orc they're willing to part with for a sensible amount of blood and/or treasure?

Happy New Year to one and all!

These are lovely paint jobs!

I always have fond memories of this box set, we saved up as a group and bought six sets or so to form the core of our armies. Unfortunately for my dwarves and the skaven player, the Greenskins and Elf players got twice as many models as us because no one played Dark Elves and so they just painted them up as wood elves!

I do still have a load of the Orks knocking around somewhere, I really should paint them one day.