Wanting to Buy Seil Mountain man going down a hill

[Kevin D.]

Hi folks,

I am looking for this figure. I have some very good gray army pieces to trade or I can buy it if you like or a bit of both. Let me know,

Thanks

Kevin D.

 

[Babelfish]

I don't think that this was ever actually released by Seil before they folded.

See the post by Zlobov*S in this thread:

http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/mountain-man-for-seil.27399/

It ended up as an exquisite little kit from Thunderbird Miniatures with an additional pack horse, but only in 40mm:

http://shop.thunderbirdminiatures.com/product.sc?productId=18&categoryId=3

- Steve

 

[Kevin D.]

Much appreciated Steve! That links explains much (darn it ). It was indeed a beautiful piece and I garnered some nice compliments on the 40mm version that I painted. Just would LOVE to have it in 75 or 90mm.

Thanks again!

Kevin

 

[Babelfish]

Me too Kevin. It would've been terrific in a larger scale.

40mm would normally be too small for me, but I was so taken with it when I saw it last year at Euro, I just had to have it.

- Steve

 

[Kevin D.]

Steve,
I looked at the various figures that Guy Herrick painted in his V-bench and stole unashamedly the various things I liked like horse colors, bead work etc and my 40mm is in my V-bench. It is one of my absolute favorites. So, SERGEY....if you happen to read this.....LOL....a couple of us would sure love to see you do that one again!!!

K

 

[Guy]

Sergey had just sent the master to Seil when he heard they were folding (from me). I have encouraged Sergey to do another similar piece.

 

[Kevin D.]

Now THAT is one time when getting an item back, marked "return to sender" would have been ok! I imagine he has enough other projects that doing that one again would be boring (been there, done that) and on the back burner because of other projects.

 

[Babelfish]

Kevin, I had a look at your version of the Thunderbird kit and it's sweet. Nice job my friend!

Seil figures I always thought were a very mixed bag. They put out some absolute turkeys like those Celts, Tom Cruise in red armour, Kevin Costner being shot on his horse, the Teutonic Knight, The King & I dancers (what were they thinking with that?!!), a Roman signifier with a massively out-of-scale signum. But when they were good they were superb (think their Vikings, Landsknechts, woodland Indian and a few others) and this one would have been a real feather in their cap I think. Such a pity it never saw the light of day as a commercial piece.

- Steve

 

[Meticulous]

Not the same, but how about this (similar, but with dogs)?

http://www.redlancers.com/displaypic.asp?item=27723&hot=

 

[Kevin D.]

Steve, just getting back to this thread...Thanks for the compliment! It is one of my favorites!

Meticulous.....yes....Gorgeous gorgeous piece...waaaaaaaay out of my price range but what a great piece in someone's display case!

 

[kagemusha]

Hi Kevin, I have the 'Authorsculpt' 75 mm mounted mountain man. Quite similar to the one you were after. I doubt I will do it so, if your interested, drop me a PM

Regards

Ron