Very nice. Didn't realise it was an Irish company. That makes the minis infinetly better
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| Author: | Adanedhel [ Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:18 am ] |
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Does anyone know wether the Mithril miniatures can be put on a GWbase and do they have the same height? If so, I'm going to buy Turin Turambar, he would make a fine addition to my collection. |
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| Author: | BilboOfTheWhiteTower [ Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:52 pm ] |
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Yes, pretty comparable in size, more so than other manufactures, the only problem is they aren't as detailed as GW metals, but still very nice models all the same. |
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| Author: | Adanedhel [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:51 am ] |
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Thanks a lot BilboOfTheWhite Tower, then I only need to decide which profile I use for him |
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| Author: | Captain Ingold [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:29 am ] |
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Could you put up a link to the site please, so I can see their models? |
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| Author: | gaarew [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:05 am ] |
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Captain Ingold wrote: Could you put up a link to the site please, so I can see their models?
Ere ya go bud! And you'll find them here... [spoiler] Heraldic Artists 3 Nassau Street Dublin 2 Tel: 01 6797020 Fax: 01 6741717 website: www.heraldicartists.com e-mail: sales@heraldicartists.com Other Realms 4 Carey's Lane, Cork, Co. Cork, Ireland Tel: 021 422 22224 Mithril Miniatures Factory Shop Kilnamartyra, Macroom, Co. Cork, Ireland Tel:(353) 026 40222 Fax:(353) 026 40004 Email: info@mithril.ie The Gathering Specialist Games & Model shop 43 Lower Gerald Griffin Street Limerick Telephone: 026 315133 www.thegatheringlimerick.com info@thegatheringlimerick.com THE HOBBY SHOP THE QUAY WATERFORD IRELAND 051-852227 Main stockiest of Vallejo Vinyl Acrylic Paints The Dungeon, 15-17 Winetavern Street, Belfast Northern Ireland BT1 1JQ Tel: 02890 233862 The Model Shop 13 Capel St Dublin 01 872 8134 [/spoiler] |
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| Author: | Captain Ingold [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:32 pm ] |
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Very nice. Didn't realise it was an Irish company. That makes the minis infinetly better .
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| Author: | BilboOfTheWhiteTower [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:49 pm ] |
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Here you go Captain Ingold... http://www.mithril.ie/ |
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| Author: | tirno.alyanorno [ Sun Nov 02, 2008 7:01 pm ] |
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how come they're allowed to do lotr stuff then? i thought gw owned the liscence |
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| Author: | Dagorlad [ Mon Nov 03, 2008 1:38 am ] |
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Understanding the complexities of LOTR/Tolkien licence agreements is something that few people on the planet could claim to have achieved. I know that Mithril used to make figures to support the Middle-earth roleplaying game and have retained some rights to produce figures based on the books. But they can't use imagery from the movies, which is licenced to GW. But that's about as far as I know. I have some of their older figures, and they were very nice (for their time), but they aren't a patch on some GW figs. Plus their hobbits are very small and too 'cherub-ish' for my tastes. Not sure about their more recent efforts though |
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| Author: | aelfwine [ Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:06 am ] |
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To just add to an old thread: Mithril miniatures originally got the license to make roleplaying and collector's miniatures in Middle Earth. The license originally belonged to Games Workshop in the early 80s. Games Workshop replaced Grenadier Miniatures. As such, lots of older Mithril figures are characters from the Middle Earth Roleplaying (MERP) supplements, as well as potential hero characters to represent someone's character in the game. Mithril also, oddly, supported the collector's market by making every figure limited. They would only cast 5000 copies of each figure (and in 1988, this was a small amount) and they would knock figures out of print quite quickly too. Famously, the mould for the Female Ranger broke early on, and only a few hundred figures were ever made. As a result, the figure is a true collector's item, with people paying up to a thousand dollars for one. It's a pretty naff figure, after all that. Anyway, sometime in the mid 90s, Mithril bowed to customer pressure and planned a series of releases called the Warbands series. The warbands series was a full army pack with officers, drummers, standard bearers and so forth. There was a Gondor and Mordor set released. At which point, Tolkien Enterprises perked up and went: hey, your license says Collecting and Roleplaying. Not Wargaming. No one's entirely sure what happened next, but a year or so later Black Tree Designs announced that they were releasing a Middle Earth wargame, with miniatures. Some time later, an American hobbyist released two of the Warbands here. Google "Time Machine Miniatures" MERP was effectively cancelled in 1997 and Mithril stopped producing miniatures around this time. They did not pass on the license, however. When the movies came out, Mithril produced another range of collector's miniatures, which no one particularly liked However, this spurred them to restart their "proper" range, and they've since released everything from a Corsair crew, an entire cohort of Knights of Dol Amroth and now a Helm's Deep series. GW has been less than thrilled by all this. But its perfectly legal. GW, y'see, got the Wargaming license. And as long as Mithril miniatures are sold for roleplaying purposes or diorama building, there's nothing that can be done. There has been some speculation that Tolkien Enterprises may have approached Mithril to restart their line when the movies came out - perhaps to preserve a diversity of visions of the property. Currently, Mithril tends to focus on making short run, expensive figures such as the Corsair admiral. Gavin PS: Mithril figures are often a hell of a lot more detailed than GW figures. Those orc warband figures "in the flesh" are quite complex and the detail more than compensates for the odd poses. |
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