The first picture is of the Deep Cuts Gnome Female Sorcerers (left) and Deep Cuts Gnome Female Druids (right).
Another useful set are the Deep Cuts Children.
The boy can be used as is, while the girl can pretty much pass as an adult in 1/72 scale (though she has an oddly elongated neck).
I think the neck was supposed to be inserted into the head, but the post was too thick so the head was just glued on top of it. Some quick work with a hobby knife and drill solved the issue.
The figures are relatively inexpensive compared to metal miniatures, but still not as cheap as the typical 1/72 plastic figures we all know and love.
The figures can be used as short magic users, but modification with a hobby knife and epoxy putty to increase the skirt length of the figures in dresses can also be done quite easily to make at least a couple of the figures taller.
I like the clear spell effects, but they look like they can get in the way when painting the figures. The heads of the druids are on the large side, and replacing or modifying them would probably make them look more in scale.
Another useful set are the Deep Cuts Children.
I think the neck was supposed to be inserted into the head, but the post was too thick so the head was just glued on top of it. Some quick work with a hobby knife and drill solved the issue.
WizKids also produce various halflings and male gnomes, but these figures seem like they would need a lot more work to bring up to 1/72 scale compatibility.
4 comments:
Great write up. I've been contemplating using these in my own collection as I can't seem to stop buying these
The WizKids unpainted minis have a lot of great models. The set of gargoyles is pretty much 1/72 scale as well.
I'm using those gnomes and halflings as humans in my D&D group since a long time and they work very well.
You can also use Wizkids dwarves as humans. E.g. "Female Dwarf Summoner" (WZK73543) totally fits as a chubby human woman in 1/72.
While Reaper Bones halflings and gnomes also work in 1/72, their dwarves are much too big
Hi JF,
Thanks for your comments. I've used the D&D Miniaures Gold Dwarf Female Cleric as a stocky human myself.
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