{"id":716,"date":"2007-11-26T21:48:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T21:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2007\/11\/26\/collecting-little-things\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T21:48:20","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T21:48:20","slug":"collecting-little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2007\/11\/collecting-little-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting Little Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wargamesillustrated.net\/shop.asp?sid=0&#038;ssid=0&#038;cid=0&#038;id=469\"><img src='http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/tooth-claw.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Tooth and Claw By Chris Peers' style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve just updated the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/dino\/\">Dinosaurs in Miniature<\/a> pages with the latest releases and re-releases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wargamesillustrated.net\/\">Wargames Illustrated<\/a> have finished re-releasing the DZ Miniatures prehistoric mammals. They&#8217;re also selling a set of rules called <cite>Tooth and Claw<\/cite> to tie in with this range.  Written by Chris &#8220;every other set of rules out there&#8221; Peers who has pedigree on this area with <cite>Saurian Safari<\/cite>. My copy is in the post, so with luck I&#8217;ll be able to post a review soon.<\/p>\n<p>There are also new rules out from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magistermilitum.com\/prodtype.asp?PT_ID=939&#038;strPageHistory=cat\">Magister Militum<\/a> called <cite>DinoMight<\/cite> and MM continue to expand their range of 10mm figures, now including some non-dinosaurs.<\/p>\n<p>Finally on the pre-historic front <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reapermini.com\/\">Reaper<\/a> have released a &#8220;Jungle Girl with Sabre Tooth Tiger&#8221; which is okay-ish except for the huge mold line in the photo and the fact that it&#8217;s an idea that&#8217;s been done several times before. Very nice cat though.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reapermini.com\/store\/customer\/product.php?productid=5070\"><img src='http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/reaper-jungle-girl.jpg' alt='Reaper Miniatures Jungle Girl with Sabre Tooth Tiger' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Meanwhile&#8230; It was only a matter of time&#8230; Pre-painted, collectible (i.e. random sealed boxes) miniatures for <cite>Doctor Who<\/cite> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbiddenplanet.com:80\/products\/28971\">Forbidden Planet<\/a>). They&#8217;re by Character Options which is a good sign (they make the very nice DW action figures) and the price is the same as for the Star Wars minis. On the downside (apart from the collectible nature) is the scale, 35mm, and the lack of anything from the classic series. Will I be buying them? <strong>They&#8217;re <cite>Doctor Who<\/cite> miniatures!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbiddenplanet.com:80\/products\/28971\"><img src='http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/dw-collect.jpg' alt='Preview of Doctor Who collectible miniatures' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just updated the Dinosaurs in Miniature pages with the latest releases and re-releases. Wargames Illustrated have finished re-releasing the DZ Miniatures prehistoric mammals. They&#8217;re also selling a set of rules called Tooth and Claw to tie in with this range. Written by Chris &#8220;every other set of rules out there&#8221; Peers who has pedigree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dinosaurs","category-doctor-who","category-miniatures"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fxq5-by","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}