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Mascots
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 1:43 am
by Chairface
Has anyone gone to the trouble of making a mascot for their team? I just went into my local store and they had just bought a bunch of used figs from the Hero Quest expansion Dark World. Theres a good sized manticore fig that I couldn't pass up for $1 and its screaming out "mascot" to me. Heres the best pic I could find (its an illustration from the box) :
http://users3.ev1.net/~nate555/heroquest/dark.htm
I know its crazy. Has anyone else made a mascot for their team? I was just curious if I was the only one
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 2:20 am
by 'Ed Basha'
I have some squigs for my Gobbo's, and a gobbo with a flag on a pole with a snotling swinging sildly from it for my orcs...it's also the team flag...kinda neat...
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:45 pm
by tarzom
I made a skeleton dog - I was just having fun messing about with plastic skeleton bits at the time and thought that I must be able to make something out of a broken horse. The idea of using it as a mascot came later.
Basically its a skeleton horse with the legs shortened and teeth added to a shortened head plus a spiked collar
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:47 pm
by tarzom
Forgot to mention - I got a dark world set cheap at a car boot sale and converted the manticore into a Nurgle Beast:
You might still be able to recognise it?
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 7:10 pm
by Chairface
Yeah, thats it, more or less. Thanks!
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 9:20 pm
by longfang
I'm gonna green stuff a Muttley.
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:26 pm
by KLK
the mascot of my favorite team, the Bald Eagles (human) is a Griffon toy that I buy with a kids meal in a locla junk food restaurant. I guess is from a movie about Camelot.
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 1:51 am
by Colin
longfang wrote:I'm gonna green stuff a Muttley.
Hey that would look cool! If you are being serious, it would be great to see some pics posted when your done.
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:00 am
by Biff Smackwell
Just a little note: Dark World had nothing to do with HeroQuest, and nothing to do with Games Workshop. I'm not even sure if Milton Bradley (Publisher of HeroQuest) published DarkWorld. Two very different games, one has nothing to do with the other.
I had DarkWorld. The game sucked, but there was a couple of good figures in it. The Manticore actually wasn't one of my favorites... that thing's ugly and looks like it wants a hug. The Haunter figure is cool though.
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 3:32 pm
by traveller
.... a squig for my Old 3.ed orc team, which i somewhere found as a nice little one with big teeth.
But i bought a couple of heresy hellhounds as dogs for my Orc coach. But it turned out, they are to large even for a Blackorc. So they willl be at the leash of my Ogre Coach... if i ever finish this project , too.
Traveller
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:20 pm
by 'Ed Basha'
The squig is great for the greenskins. And now I have the two minis for the gobbos squig herders, which by the way rock. I can't wait to paint them up and have them as the official mascot herders. That giant trident and the bagpipes are just too funny
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 12:30 am
by Chairface
I love the one with the bagpipes! Good call!
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 7:46 am
by traveller
I love the one with the bagpipes!
that should be the same, who is sitting on the steps of my stand diorama !
Traveller
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 8:51 am
by Redfang
If it wasn't so expensive I would have bought the Mordheim bear as a mascot for my Karak-Grizdal Grizzlies...
Now they refuse to play well because I didn't...
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 1:01 pm
by Flumox Fleebiter
I thought some of these guys would make good mascots or even turn markers for some teams (pixie for elves, etc.):
http://www.reapermini.com/store/custome ... cat=&page=