N is for Nottingham Mafia's 'Normous Men . . . and things!

I have a few of these elsewhere, I think we saw one in the comparison shots on the Airfix Space Warriors page, but I've had a bit of luck with two lots, so we're looking at them next. I nearly got a third lot, but two other bidders recognised them and bid each-other way out of my bracket!

Games Workshop's experiment with large scale 'Fighting Fantasy' figures, not as unsuccessful as some would have you believe, and I suspect many are still out there in the half-forgotten collections of sixty-something's who were into Games Workshop back in the late 1970's.early 1980's, and who would have grabbed these without thinking.

Indeed; while they don't show up that often at the moment (hence silly prices), when they do they are as often on the card as loose, but on the card they are identifiable and fetch the really silly money!

As you can see you get a solid 'ring-hand' body with [interchangeable] head and a selection of weapons, staffs, tools, shield &ect., which would come on a circular runner behind the figure in a blister card, figures were always grey, while the 'weapon runners' were a matching-gray, silver or gold. Relevant runner blisters' also got a sticker for the shield.

Hero Knight type and obvious Dwarf, there were about 30 figures I think (so I have some way to go), and they were divided into good and bad, more D&D than W40k, but then early GW was more D&D than W40k!

Good Wizard and bad Wizard . . . any resemblance to Gandalf and Saurman is purely coincidental, and no - the Nottingham Mafia haven't asked me to say that! As GW's small scale had left 25mm behind, in favour of a 28-mil which by the time everyone had invested in 'Slotta' bases made everything closer to 30mm-plus, so too, these were way beyond any pretense at 54mm, with a 60+ size bracket.

Orkey Boys (or Orky Boiz if you've been captured by the Mafia!), one needs paint-stripping, which I will get round to one day, and because they are soft polyethylene, unlike the 'styrene (or whitemetal) of their smaller cousins, it will be a relatively simple procedure.

2nd purchase and I think I've run out of blurb-material . . . subject, contents, packaging, maker, scale/size, material and some opinions? Boxes ticked! Well . . . what to say . . . the long-sword is a Hong Kong copy of Cherilea I think and nothing to do with the rest of the stuff in this post, nor do the daggers look right - medieval Britains Swoppet was my first thought; for the small one, but it fits! I suspect the larger is Playmobile or something like that?

Beyond wizardry . . . this chap is a full-on necromancer and the first thing he seems to have brought back from the dead is himself! Given the size of these, I think it's fair to say they could have been better sculpted that they are, they have the same 'heavy' sculpting with chunky steps between over-emphasised detail elements, as found on the smaller gaming stuff, but they can still paint-up well.

Another goodly-knight or Adventurer, I gave him the dodgy sword as the others had gone away - which means I have these in three places now . . . Doh! More when I find them and we ended-up with enough blurb for the last two paragraphs!

And . . . going back to my comments about where these [mass-produced] figures may be hiding, I wouldn't be surprised if they become increasingly common on the sales market over the next ten-to-fifteen years, and some of those silly prices may well become obsolete?