Dwarf sculptor?

[The Serene Badger]

Would anyone happen to know who sculpted this fantastic dwarf? It has Trollslayer on the tab and is dated as 1987.

I really like it, and want to find out more. He'll likely get pressed into my ragtag 2-handed weapon clansmen/militia unit.

 

[Citizen Sade]

One of the Perry Brothers. He ended up in the Dwarf adventurers range.

 

[Citizen Sade]

Anyone know the story behind his name? Khrys Rabinsson = Chris Robinson? @dieselmonkey perhaps?

 

[The Serene Badger]

Thanks, that great. Khrys Rabinsson it is. Some of those names are really random! There's a few familiar faces on that page

 

[dieselmonkey]

Anyone know the story behind his name? Khrys Rabinsson = Chris Robinson? @dieselmonkey perhaps?

There was a Chris in trade sales that I remember, who's surname *might* have been Robinson, but I can't be certain.

The naming wasn't usually done by the sculptors from memory, but it could feasibly have been a random person one of the Perrys knew, or whoever put the catalogue page/advert together. At that point it was probably Richard Helliwell (not Halliwell the sadly missed designer) who did it, but this is all a bit vague in my memory. I remember 'inking' figures with that shoe polish that used to come in a bottle with a sponge on the end for photography at one point for him.

 

[dieselmonkey]

I think possibly my most favourite 'comedy' naming conventions that I can think of is the early Imperial Army:



These are mostly based on Prog rock musicians, so you've got Brock, Davey, Powell, Lloyd-Langton, Calvert and Turner from Hawkwind (possibly also Thompson but spelled Thomson), Emerson, Lake and Palmer, (From Emerson, Lake and Palmer!) Lee, Lifeson and Peart from Rush, And presumably Female Trooper (Kate) Bush. I'm sure there are others I've missed.

 

[Michael Stockin]

We have troopers Bruce and Lee.
We have troopers Laurel and Hardy.
I always assumed Niven was Larry Niven and Rathbone was Basil.

Could be links, could be tenuous, could be just me?

 

[dieselmonkey]

Yeah, there are likely plenty with other connections, but I was told back in the day that these were all/mostly musicians. I'd assumed Bruce was Springsteen tbh.

The only exceptions I'd have thought were (Basil) Rathbone and (David) Niven and Laurel & Hardy.

 

[ManicMan]

of course, if you are going with the surnames thing, and sine there is Rathbone, I would say Bruce would be Nigel Bruce who was Watson to Rathbone's Holmes (though I like them films, and the Radio series, He is a pretty bad Watson in that he is the bumbling side kick which Watson wasn't)

 

[ManicMan]

Oh and if we are going down that route, they are next to (Margaret) Rutherford.

but as none of them is called Bachman, I can rule out Turner as being Fred Turner.