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Title: Retro Sci-Fi Post by: Lost Egg on July 14, 2011, 08:13:22 am I found this website yesterday and thought it looked quite cool in a Buck Rogers kinda way.
http://www.hydraminiatures.com/index.shtml (http://www.hydraminiatures.com/index.shtml) The ships for War Rocket remind of Flash Gordon. I like the Galacteer and Robot figs for Retro Raygun. Not sure about some of the alien figs though. HN Title: Re: Retro Sci-Fi Post by: Megatron0 on July 14, 2011, 08:35:54 am those robots are awesome! I love that whole retro style
Title: Re: Retro Sci-Fi Post by: Carcharoth on July 14, 2011, 08:52:35 am I've always liked Hydra - great pulpy figures :)
I particularly like the robots! Title: Re: Retro Sci-Fi Post by: Lost Egg on July 14, 2011, 03:47:53 pm The Galacteer troopers are very cool too. They just need to do a Hawk Man race.
HN Title: Re: Retro Sci-Fi Post by: Carcharoth on July 14, 2011, 04:42:10 pm Apparently you should have got some from WargamesSupplyDump as they had some hawkmen in their 'Dick Garrison' range, but I'm not sure if they still exist...
Title: Re: Retro Sci-Fi Post by: Lost Egg on July 15, 2011, 07:27:47 pm They are kinda cool but was thinking more...
http://theworldsbestever.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/hawk.jpg HN Title: Re: Retro Sci-Fi Post by: Laughing Ferret on July 17, 2011, 09:04:46 pm I've always liked the look of Hydra too. they had a sale that just ended, and I bit the bullet and got the imperial fleet & zenithian fleet (saucers). I'm a sucker for spaceships, and justified more since they are a different genre :P
I love the robots- they should be good for both 28mm & 15mm scale so I ordered some of the mini bots and one of the big war robots. and I topped it off with the galacteer chimp: just too cute not to have. he might become my mechanic in my Belgian army...the local group is gearing up for some light-campaign skirmish 'early weird world war II' and the army I've settled on is Colonial Belgian Congo sending an army to free Belgium and end the war, bringing about world peace through the integration of uplifted apes & other primates. So I'll have monkey & gorilla soldiers as the bulk of my force. Kind of an Island of Dr. Moreau meets Planet of the Apes meets WWII. (http://shop.hydraminiatures.com/images/comet-2.jpg) This guy should fit right in. Title: Re: Retro Sci-Fi Post by: Megatron0 on July 17, 2011, 10:50:50 pm There is no greater model then that of a monkey in a jetpack
Title: Re: Retro Sci-Fi Post by: lightderakeer on July 18, 2011, 10:42:35 am if people are looking for pulp sci-fi, theres a company called killer B who do a nice range of mini's. they also do a line of 60's london cop themed miniatures. check em out! :)
Title: Re: Retro Sci-Fi Post by: Lost Egg on July 18, 2011, 03:55:00 pm Quite a funky range.
I see Retro Raygun are going to have a rulebook sometime soon. HN Title: Re: Retro Sci-Fi Post by: TheGremlin on July 19, 2011, 04:56:22 am I can't say I've bought any, but I agree with the commendations for pulp minis so far and would add Tin Man (http://tinminis.com/), Bronze Age (http://www.bronzeagemin.com/), and Ironclad (http://www.ironcladminiatures.co.uk/) Miniatures as other purveyors of pulpy goods. I didn't notice the names till now :D
The murphidian miners from Killer B look great, but I haven't picked them up. I don't even have an excuse as they are pretty cheap... Title: Re: Retro Sci-Fi Post by: Lost Egg on July 19, 2011, 03:57:40 pm Not seen Tin Man before, some great figs there with some lovely dynamic sculpts; I especially like the riding beast in the blog. Ironclad and Bronze Age I've seen before, nice figs. Bronze Age also have some dynamic sculpts. I think the Leonides mini is very cool.
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