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Yeah, I figured. I had a vague idea to use the Vikings as a race of gianty guys for a non Middle Earth setting. 40mm is a particularly odd design choice, though!

Actually, I had considered the Vikings for something similar, too. Or using the 54mm Christmas Figures as statuary in a Gondor scene...

Vikings? ... 40mm is rather an unusual size. The only Viking-series I still do appreciate was made by Elastolin Hausser in the early sixties. They're about 35mm and many of them do nicely match the figures of the Mithril-ranges in size. Non-metal figures they are (Elastolin). I do like them as many of those figures were sculpted as three-dimensional beings of Foster's comics about Prince Valiant. - Unfortunately that company does not exist any more (for about more than 20 years by now, I think). Those figures were a bit expensive in the 60s as they were hand-coloured. So, Sir Gawain, Arne of Ord, and many others still are very nice figures.
Elastolin Hausser produced a wide range of brilliant miniatures. The Roman series are great, I think. So are those Norman riders (William the Conqueror) and the British knights in full armour.
Well, Frumgar also has his source in one of those dynamic riders ....
Sorry. I cannot help with these 40mm Vikings.

Certainly does. I think my very earliest figures (other than some lead toy soldiers my old gaffer gave me from his own childhood) were some Elastolin Romans (or was it Landsknechts? Perhaps it was both...). As the Tree says, they were horribly expensive, and they were also very brittle. Sadly, like any child, I treated them as toys and they are consequently no longer with me - R.I.P. (Romans in pieces, that is).

Do they come up on aBay at all? And how expensive are they when/if they do? I seem to remember that Elastolin produced a fortress in one of their ranges, as well as the siege engines - I can recall a local toyshop which set up a siege scene in their window, crowded with what seemed to my young eyes to be literally hundreds of figures!

I'm sure it's very hard to write properly when you have twigs rather than fingers. I have difficulty enough with real fingers.

The siege Equipment from GW is nice for Mithril (Empire Defenders, Attackers, Uruk Hai Ballista, all in white Metal).
Elastolin has not the right scale.

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In these cases it´s also nice like Christmas in your own language.....

I also want to join the other guys before wishing all these wonderful persons I have made the acquaintance with during this year
a very happy christmas and a merry new year . . .is that right . . .
( I think I have listen one time too often to "do they know it´s chritmas time-one year is over . . . do you know that song ?! )

Feed the waaaargggs

Let them know its Christmas time

Feed the warrrggs...

erchamion wrote:

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In these cases it´s also nice like Christmas in your own language.....

Well then Merry Christmas dudes and dudettes!  May the New Year rain Mithrils onto you.  Over here, other 'army men' heavily collected are by Marx.  Wish I'd saved mine!  Anyone going to feed the warg jukebox some shire pennies?  I love those old X-mas songs...

Rhruoommm ... anything else I could do for you ? ... of course, I will snuff out those candles ... rhuoomm ... as they by now seem to burn me twigs ... rhuoommm ... so once again I'm the last body, as you called me, Master Barliman, to take care of them incendiaries being placed on me ... alas ... well, this might keep the Pony from burning down ... rhuooommm ... anyway ... hom ... I have become used to it ... somehow ... rhuoommm ...so enjoy tomorrow, please ... hom ... Merry Crimble, as you said .... rhuoommm ... by then I will have them wargskins trotten down so that everyone can pass the doormats here ... alas .. rhuoommm ... just give me some time, I can cope with that, you know .... rhhuuooommm ...