Unmounted HE Dragon (and other questions)

[Geep]

In a recent eBay purchase I gained a large number of uncommon Warmaster minis, including one I've never seen before- it looks just like a High Elf Dragon, but it has no rider (and doesn't look like the rider has been cut off). Does anyone know if this is a rare model, or just a good conversion?

While I'm making a thread, I may as well cover a few other things:
Some spear heads from High Elf spearmen were broken off (and not included as pieces)- does anyone have advice on how best to replace these?

Another eBay auction saw me gain six strips of Dwarf Hammerers- enough for a unit, except that they are all rank and file models- they have no command stand. Does anyone happen to have a spare Hammerer command stand (or strip) for sale/ trade?

Lastly, how rare are the limited release Orc and Goblin models? I've managed to gain forest goblin infantry, spider riders and a fanatic cannon, but have never even seen some of the savage orc models I've heard about.

Thanks for the help,
Geep

[Lex]

can you post pictures ?

Check forum and gw-warmster yahoo group for threads on the HE spears

I think my hammerers never had a commandstrip, and I have orriginal ones

I have the various goblins alternatives, and I have seen the Orcsm but I woud deem those to be prety rare

[azrael71]

My hammerers have got a standard.
A long pole with an eagle on the top and Grungi's face half way down.

The savage orc boar boys and boys are quite rare, you very rarely see them come up on eBay.

The question about spears has been answered, but perhaps it may be useful to have a FAQ thread here for regulars and new visitors alike.

[azrael71]

There is a picture of the dwarves banner on the back of warmag 16.

[wellspring]

In a recent eBay purchase I gained a large number of uncommon Warmaster minis, including one I've never seen before- it looks just like a High Elf Dragon, but it has no rider (and doesn't look like the rider has been cut off). Does anyone know if this is a rare model, or just a good conversion?

While I'm making a thread, I may as well cover a few other things:
Some spear heads from High Elf spearmen were broken off (and not included as pieces)- does anyone have advice on how best to replace these?

Another eBay auction saw me gain six strips of Dwarf Hammerers- enough for a unit, except that they are all rank and file models- they have no command stand. Does anyone happen to have a spare Hammerer command stand (or strip) for sale/ trade?

Lastly, how rare are the limited release Orc and Goblin models? I've managed to gain forest goblin infantry, spider riders and a fanatic cannon, but have never even seen some of the savage orc models I've heard about.

Thanks for the help,
Geep

I saw the dragon on eBay when it was up for bid-- very interesting mini. I get the feeling that GW had many unreleased minis in addition to the short-release minis like dragon princes etc. My question is: where did THESE guys find them? Tournament circuit near GWHQ?

BTW, I noticed yesterday that the straight-up Goblins aren't in print anymore, just night goblins. Hadn't realized that before.

[Geep]

Straight up goblins? I thought there were only night goblins and forest goblins in Warmaster scale? More stuff for me to look for...

I don't know if this forum restricts where images can be posted, so let's see how this goes:


Unmounted Dragon and regular High Elf Dragonrider. Both painted by Erwinkj2010 (eBay name).


Umounted Dragon body and High Elf Dragonrider body- the rest of the model is the same for both (and yes, I have 2 of these things).

Out of curiosity I'll post pics of the weirderdwarf stuff I have too:

Hammerers and Lord on Throne. When I bought these they were advertised as Thorgrimm and Bodyguard.
The Lord on Throne looks mostly just lie the one on the GW website, except for the additional models- A dwarf jester, bear in chains and dwarf with drink.

I've taken a closer look at the Hammerers, and think I may have spotted the command strip, though it's not as Azrael71 describes:

It seems to be a simple poll with small icon and tiny ribbon of material hanging down the back- it's hardly noticeable, and there's nothing that looks like a musician or champion.

So... can anyone tell me what these are, if any of them have official names?

Thanks

[Lex]

KK  the dragon is a cast of the basic model, there is also an unmounted Hipogriff. Kinda make sense to have a basic unmounted model and then make the mounted variant, more so if you need several different rider variants

The top dwarfs are hammerers, from my POV I think you got a snapped bannerpole..... and the toppart is missing, hence the relatively simpel icon on pole (which is the bottompart)

Dwarf with attendandts is part of the characterpack, the 3 figures on the right of that are different from mine, so I guess the character pack had some variation in those (we know the HE had)

[jchaos79]

By the way, beatifull paint on dragons!. Good job

[Lex]

NOTE!!

The goblins shown and the goblins deleivered MAY not be the same

[Stomm]

Unmounted Dragon and regular High Elf Dragonrider. Both painted by Erwinkj2010 (eBay name).

I know those dragons, and doing a quick user-id. search on Ebay I also know the Chaos army and his Eldar Harlequins. Whoever got those last ones got a bargain, Erwin is a damn good painter and can actually do justice to a Harlequin Troupe.

Looks to me like he's just offloaded his wargaming collection, which is a real shame. I guess he hasn't got the time to play or maybe no-one to play against out there in Oz... Hopefully the armies will see a new lease of life.


Incidentally if it's him that you got this stuff from. 'back in the day', we used to go to all the CtA events and the like, and IIRC Erwin wrote a few Warmag articles. I know that I got hold of various unreleased Dwarf bits and bobs through the articles I wrote, so he likely did the same with whatever he wrote (I'm pretty sure he had some stuff published in Warmag at some point). It's just a shame to see that he's so definitively leaving Warmaster behind him, the idea of selling an army is anathema to me I have to say, but that might have something to do with my glacial painting rate...

Anyway, the Guy's name is Erwin Jackson, and if it is his HE army you've bought, well you're very lucky indeed...

[Geep]

Anyway, the Guy's name is Erwin Jackson, and if it is his HE army you've bought, well you're very lucky indeed...

Yes- I bought his whole HE army. Normally I'd never buy a painted army (I do like painting myself), but his was well painted and included a lot of rare units.
It's good to know some of the history of the army and how this stuff made it in- thanks.

[Stomm]

He was a fellow member of the Tanelorn Wargames club in North East London, he moved back to Oz shortly before I naffed off up to Nottingham for a couple of years IIRC, or at roughly the same time anyway. Amongst the likes of Chris Burnet, he was one of my regular opponents when Warmaster was still fresh and new, and you could count the number of people locally that played it (that I knew of) on more than one hand...

There are probably still some photos of his stuff lurking about on the Tanelorn website gallery if you want to hunt it down. When I got back from Nottingham the 30-40 minute drive on a sunday night home, combined with the arrival of kids and my wife's job moving to Canary Wharf means that I could no longer make it as often as I would have liked (IoW maybe twice a year. I make it to Lenton more often...), which was one of the driving forces for getting a club going more locally. I do however only have one local Warmaster player of any regularity.

Needless to say I have fought against both this and his Chaos armies a few times in the distant past. I think against the Chaos army only once, and that was a game that I'm pretty sure that I lost, as my unsubtle 'hit them with a load of knights' technique doesn't work on a block of chaos warriors sandwiched in between terrain impassable to cavalry with maraduer support and S&F from a dragon in one of the units... I can't remember what any win/loss ratio might have been against his HE army though. And as an added bonus it may well have been used to play against Rick's O&G's, and if it did most likely won. RIck can write a good game, but does tend to loose a little too often... Anyway, Erwin could likely confirm or deny that I guess...

[marell le fou]

Here is a pict of hammerers to compare.

[azrael71]

Doh.
Should have checked the forum, just took a pic of mine as well
Ah well

[Geep]

Thanks for the pic. Guess I'll have to do some converting to replace the lost banner parts.