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Before there was Brikwars, there were ... lead miniatures and a
Frankenstein-esque ruleset cobbled-together from Dungeons and Dragons source
material. At that time most of my spending money was being sunk into this
pleasantly soft yet toxic metal, and the resulting armies were impressive to
behold. I had built up a large undead army, with skeletons of all sorts:
skeletal war elephants, skeletal dragons, skeletal lycanthropes, skeletal
giants, skeletal troops ... but my favorite miniature was always the skeletal
balrog from the Ral Partha boxed set “Skeletal Legions of the Liche King”:
Collecting all of my little white bits together I decided to have a go at the
concept in LEGO. The result:
(click on picture above to link to the gallery)
The skeletal balrog made its debut in an October 23rd
Halloween-themed Brikwars
game. Unfortunately by the time the characters found it they were hurting and
on the verge of going insane, so the balrog remained a statue rather than come
to unlife.
It’s quite articulated, very posable, and relatively sturdy. I’ve dropped it a
number of times and repairs are usually minor. Balance is occasionally as issue
due to the small size of the feet, but the minifig-hand-toe-talons actually work
wonders in providing support.
Also depicted is a large three-headed flail it can tote around. Now I just need
to get my hands on a flaming Bionicale sword ...
Please LMKWYT!
Thanks,
.s
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| (...) I would not have thought that a skeletal creature like this was possible. Very well done. I was drooling over the brief glimpses from the BrikWars game pics, these are much better. Excellent use of the horn piece for the wrist. Jason Spears | (...) (20 years ago, 8-Nov-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| Shaun, This is awesome! Thanks for posting the extensive galleries of these and of your whole Brickington Manor so we can see details. Bruce (20 years ago, 8-Nov-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) I really enjoyed this MOC, the piece usage was very creative (minifig arms as ribs, joints made of steer horns, I could go on), and you were very true to the miniature, as well. The pose sequence of going from a huddled-up state to (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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