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Maenas wrote:

It is a pity that Mithril is "promoting" my kind of behaviour... I mean. There must be more people thinking this very same thing... "I will wait for the next discount" If I were the owner I would prefer a kind of steady income, than a couple or three yearly huge incomes. With this method/behaviour they are also discouraging people from the autoshipment, I think....

I certainly am waiting for a juicy discount to get these. No way I'm paying that price for these "dated but charming" miniatures. I recently got some very old Ral Partha miniatures from the 80's (Tom Meier's Goblins) and they are more detailed than these Orcs.

I received my parcel yesterday. I need to have spare time for opening it and have a close look. I think size could be compared to M222.

Last edited by Milo (Tue, Jun14 2016 11:14am)

Relying on  my memory, they're smaller and less bulky than either M335 or M222.

I like the idea to have orcs with many different scales. At the end, evil creatures should not be "standardised" too much.

Last edited by Milo (Tue, Jun14 2016 11:20am)

Well my figures have not arrived yet, but there's one thing I suggest to be considered: Of the new orcs there's one (MM544) who is called "Snaga with torch". Remembering the differences in size that Chris uses it is correct that those Snagas are not that tall than common corcs (compare the old M335 Snagas).
Though I think Master Barliman is absolutely correct saying that engeneers need to have a bigger and stronger body, because of their jobs.

If they are small, they only have to dig small tunnels...

In times where it is possible to take photos with mobiles or digital cameras everywhere-
maybe there is somebody out there who is able to post a picture of these small figures . . . ????????
That would be very kind indeed.

I checked yesterday. Orcs are same kind and size as per M222. So these are standard sized.
Sorry no picture yet master archer. I need to take time for this...which I lack a lot.

what shocked me the most is the tiny faces of these orcs... I know I "hate" painting orcs because I find them lacking details or "thinness" in their body usually, and that's why I was surprised to see a ... thin face for them...

well definitly they lack muscles and head size... the size is correct but the thickness is missing... you can see that mainly on the third pic, the arm muscles are quite different!

same for the head in first picture, the new orc head is too "long" and not wide enough

Well- A very big MERCI at this point to Master Milo for his energy to take those pictures and uploaded them!
Quiet interesting to see what everybody here is talking about.
The orc-examples Milo choosed are not that small in my memory . . . the M222 is not small at all, for my taste.
I think- important is that those orcs can be count as a "group". All together they fit.

I think I will have a look "in the flesh" in the near future because I do know a fellow who got them . . . at that time in the future . . .

Hm. Again I thought about all this. Four of the five new figures are called "Orcish", which implies that they're similar to Orcs, but not exactly the same. - Err, whatever that means. - Then I wonder why they're officially listed by Mithril as MM-figures though the subreferences clearly read 'M' for the old M-series.
But all that might not be of any importance in case the last releases mean that the old M-series is not given up for good.