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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 3451588" data-attributes="member: 10479">Those guys are screwed.  Bet they will regret buying that discounted bamboo underwear! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Here are some thumbs with links to (much) larger pics.  I added some "known" minis in with the pics, like a DDM hobgoblin and a GW skeleton to give some perspective and scale.  These include some other oddball minis I picked up, since I was taking pics anyway and wanted to give an idea how many inexpensive minis can be had if you keep your eyes peeled.This first one includes a dollar store dragon (more on those later), a couple of GW skeletons, a plastic scorpian (based for a few cents) from a dollar store bag of animals, a mage knight skeleton (re-based for a few cents, used as a giant skeleton) bought at an auction in a four big bags of someone's dumped Mage Knight army (paid about six bucks for a couple hundred figures, and an ape (based for a few cents) from a dollar store wild animals bag.<a href="http://www.creativemountaingames.com/images/tam/tam001.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.creativemountaingames.com/images/tam/tam001thumb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>Moving right, most of the same stuff, but in the middle is a stone giant that I believe is from a Hero game (? someone chime in if you know better, please!), a plastic scorpian (based for a few cents) from a dollar store bag of animals, a DDM hobgoblin, and the front paw of . . .<a href="http://www.creativemountaingames.com/images/tam/tam002.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.creativemountaingames.com/images/tam/tam002thumb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>. . . the front paw of and whole figure of a DDM Hellcat, the Dragon & Knights toob dragon (based on a cut up dungeon tile, call it Large), another DDM hobgoblin, and then the Dragon & Knights toob artillery piece (good size for DDM figures, I think).<a href="http://www.creativemountaingames.com/images/tam/tam003.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.creativemountaingames.com/images/tam/tam003thumb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>The next pic is that dollar store dragon (based on a chunk of dungeon tile) with a couple of figs for scale and its container.<a href="http://www.creativemountaingames.com/images/tam/tam004.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.creativemountaingames.com/images/tam/tam004thumb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>Opened up, it comes in pieces with assembly instructions (though they are hardly necessary).  They seem to come in black and green, so I picked up a couple of each, at a dollar apiece.  I also got some use from the container building a stronghold for my Hordes of the Things army (more on that in the not too distant future on <a href="http://www.creativemountaingames.com" target="_blank">my website</a>.<a href="http://www.creativemountaingames.com/images/tam/tam005.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.creativemountaingames.com/images/tam/tam005thumb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>This Oliphant-sized elephant cost $0.88 at Walmart, so I picked up a couple.  I'll mash up some howdahs or archer platforms for them sooner or later, or just have them trample some PCs au natural. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /><a href="http://www.creativemountaingames.com/images/tam/tam006.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.creativemountaingames.com/images/tam/tam006thumb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>Here's the rest (besides the little dragon and the artillery piece) that came in the Dragon and Knights toob.  As you can see, next to the skeleton and hobgoblin, they are somewhat outrageously large.  You'd have to call them between seven and eight foot tall, I suppose.  I do not think the ones on foot would fit well on a one inch stand but the riders could be easily used on a Large base.<a href="http://www.creativemountaingames.com/images/tam/tam007.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.creativemountaingames.com/images/tam/tam007thumb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>As with the riders from the previous pic, the horses from the Horse Toob would work fine, IMO.  Being plastic, they could easily be shaved down on the sides to allow a rider to be worked onto one (using green stuff to make a saddle and some thread for a bridle).  I find when I pick up old minis at auction, there are often horseless riders sifting around in the bottom of the bag or box, so these come in handy.  Certainly, they are very useful as a herd of wild horses, as additional horses for an adventuring group, added to a matchbox to make a cart or wagon, or as horse milling around the outskirts of a campsite.  All good in this toob, IMO.<a href="http://www.creativemountaingames.com/images/tam/tam008.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.creativemountaingames.com/images/tam/tam008thumb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a></blockquote>

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