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While collecting 1/72 medieval miniatures, I am also colecting fantasy minis of the same scale.
Too bad that there are not many available, at least not very much that I know of. Apart from the Alliance sets (which are probably made by the same company that owns Redbox and Orion) and a few Caesar sets I know of no other company producing such minis in 1/72.
All these sets are really good, specially the Alliance ones (Light and Dark Alliance), but their fantasy range is far from complete (if such thing even exists).
I started collecting medieval miniatures by purchasing some metal RPG minis (28mm) from a local retailer. Even though these are made of metal (tin), they are far cheaper than official WotC D&D plastic miniatures!
In parallel to my real world medieval armies, I'm also mustering fantasy armies. In this post I will share a few pictures of the minis from my "evil army" / "darkness army" (which will mainly be used as the Mordor or Morgoth's army)
In the picture above: a pack of wolves with their alpha leading, and among them an Uruk-hai "pikeman" (pikeorc?) from the Alliance set, for size comparison.
These 28mm wolves work really well as wargs when among 1/72 minis. The alpha wolf is even bigger and could be used to represent Fenrir in a norse mythology game.
Above, another size comparison of the Uruk-hai pikeorc, the normal wolf and the alpha wolf.
I intend to use these wolves as part of Mordor's cavalry (I did not like very much the idea of orcs riding wargs, so mine will be "riderless", and I think that the Alliance Warg sets are too high fantasy for my taste - but of course I might purchase one of such sets someday anyway!)
Above, there is a hobgoblin wielding a huge morningstar, which I intend to use as an ogre or as a semi-troll (since he is noticeably smaller than the Alliance Trolls). He might even be the captain of a uruk-hai company.
Above is a "Basilisk" (or at least a D&D style basilisk) which I intend to use as a wingless dragon (like Glaurung, the father of dragons from Tolkien's universe - this one could represent an early dragon from the First Age of Middle Earth to play wargame battles such as the siege of Gondolin)
The one above towering over three Uruk-Hai pikeorcs is a demon, probably based on Doom's Cyber Demon (that good and old DOS game made by idSoftware in the 90's) I'll probably use it as a wingless Balrog (and I even think that it is not clear in the LotR books whether Balrogs necessarily have wings or not!)
This one facing the uruk-hai was marketed as a cockatrice by the seller, but I'll recruit it as a wyvern for the Mordor army or to use as a neutral party on the battlefield.
Too bad its wings came as separate pieces and are really hard to glue. I'll try to solder them later.
And here you can see a uruk-hai platoon facing not one, but two dragons. Well, they are marketed as "dragon whelps" by the retailer, but at this scale they pass at least as "teenager dragons" or, let's say, "lesser adult dragons" (I wouldn't use any of these as, let's say, Smaug or Ancalagon). However, one of these dragons might become a Nâzgul fell beast!
I don't know if I'll try to paint them all and I'm not sure if the acrilic paint that I use for the plastic miniatures will work on these metal ones.
There's only one way to know! I hope it will work. Perhaps I'll keep the silver collor of at least one of the dragons. Let's see...
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