Alternative Barrow Wights

Morgoths_crown · **Joined:** Thu May 27, 2010 10:53 pm **Posts:** 161

I have just snatched 3 paralysed hobbits off ebay and want to do a barrow downs diorama using one of my many spare frodos. However, I cannot get any barrow wights and not only am I kicking myself for not grabbing them when they were released in 03, I also cannot find any useful alternatives. I have a twilight wraith but want to use him for his nazgul shennaigans on weathertop. Any suggestions greatly appreciated

Wayne/M_c

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 23, 2011 11:58 pm

Gareew painted some Mantic figures that looked very similar to barrow-wights. You should check out his non-lotr art work he recently posted a few months back.

gaarew · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2011 6:40 am

You mean these?

Set of 5 metal sculpts - as above

Set of 10 restic (resin plastic) models - alt sculpts

Both are £14 RRP.

Alternatively, I think I may have a couple of blisters of Barrow-wights kicking about, but I'd have to check to make sure.

scipio.au · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2011 8:02 am

They look good. Are they the metal or the resin ones in your pic? Do you have a pic of them enxt to the GW ones, or even some lotr figures so we can see the scale?

gaarew · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2011 11:10 am

Those are, as stated, the metals. ;-)

I'll try and get a comparison shot. The metals are thinner than the Barrow-wight sculpts, but the restic versions are pretty much the same. Not too sure about height.

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2011 4:01 pm

Yeah these do make a nice substitute, they're not a whole lot campy like some of the other Mantic figures, they look like they fit in well with the realism of the LOTR figures. IMO I think they're better looking sculpts than the GW barrow-wights, but just wondering about the scale comparison as well.

valpas · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2011 6:49 pm

Both these and GW's wights look a bit like they are floating in the air, so I don't think the scale is going to matter to me since they are roughly the same size. I'm definately going to fill my Barrow Wight ranks with these guys.

-- Pasi

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2011 12:21 am

True, I was thinking that too. When they appear as though floating in the air, does it really matter how tall they could be?

scipio.au · **Posted:** Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:33 am

I'm not so concerned about height (though comparable to the GW ones would be good so they can fit in the same unit) but the size of their armour, helmets, skulls, etc since the LOTR range isn't exaggerated as Warhammer is. Mostly.

gaarew · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2011 3:45 pm

From L - R

Restic Wraith, Barrow-wight, metal Wraith.

Bear in mind the restic one is on a scenic base, so appears slightly taller than it actually is.

Hilbert · **Joined:** Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:07 am **Posts:** 2088

Perfect green eyes.

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:02 pm

That is actually a great comparison. I hope Morgoths_Crown is paying attention to this since he's the one that posed the question.

valpas · **Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2011 6:05 am

These wights will be seen in my Barrow-downs! Thanks for the comparison photo.

My previous candidate for a little variety was this Mithril wight:

The age of the Mithril sculpt is showing; those Mantic wights beat it hands down.

-- Pasi

Hilbert · **Joined:** Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:07 am **Posts:** 2088

I remember them from Fotr video-game they were exactly like this one. :-D

gaarew · **Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:18 pm

They are great minis. I've got 25 of the metal ones, and 15 of the restic.

Hilbert · **Joined:** Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:07 am **Posts:** 2088

Also the new Tomb banshee would eb good for barrow wight...

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Sun Jul 31, 2011 6:18 pm

I'm planning on getting one of these Cairn Wraiths when they are released to add to my Barrow Wights

Hilbert · **Joined:** Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:07 am **Posts:** 2088

That's nice too althought his scythe seems somehow un-Middle-earth

Morgoths_crown · **Joined:** Thu May 27, 2010 10:53 pm **Posts:** 161

I prefer the mantic ones. Will consider these in the future. At the moment I am buying a lot of toy biz action figures for my collection

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:43 pm

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That's nice too although his scythe seems somehow un-Middle-earth

Give him a sword and shield :idea:

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