One such race which has fallen into obscurity is the Lion-Men of Mongo. One of the first natives to team up with Flash (after an altercation in the skies) is Thun, crown prince of the Lion-Men. Early on he becomes one of Flash's group and for that reason (and some prompting from I See Lead People's Eli Arndt) I've decided to include the Lion-Men in my initial 15mm Flash Gordon line up.
There are quite a few interpretations of Lion-Men in the different source matrial. In Alex Raymond's original there was not much "Lion-ness" about them. Thun was pretty much a semi-naked orange man with big dreadlocks and a beard...
This was also a look followed by the Buster Crabbe serials...
However in some of the other versions there has been a definite more animalistic appraoch the Lion-Men, including both the 1979 Filmation cartoon (far left on the DVD cover below) and also in the new comic by Aarden Entertainment (in the background on the cover below, behind Flash and Dale).
So with an eye towards having a more interesting and varied 15mm battlefield I have decided to go with the animalistic approach as there seems to be a good selection of 15 cat people out there. As Eli kindly drew my attention to, Splintered Light Miniatures do a whole range of cat people, not limited to just Lions.
I think for a starting skirmish group the 11 men plus leader for $8.00 would be ideal, but for future expansion you could do the different aspects of the Lion-Men's culture with the different types of feliniod that Splintered Light produce.
Laters,
C.
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They look good - maybe some green stuff added to their mane area would help. I am also sure that depending on the source, the Lionmen were either un-armed (Thun) or armed with rayguns as Flash Gordon.
The Harkmen tend to be ancient greek with wings - try the wings from Foundry Elven Revenant cherubs.
I'm enjoying your quest for 15mm Flash miniatures almost as much as I did with my own 40mm Flash project!
Tony
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These sorts of projects are awesome. I agree it's a most enjoyable thing to watch.
It is always cool to see how different minds go about creating the denizens of their favorite worlds from literature, films, etc.
The Splintered Light figs offer a lot of choices. My oldest daughter and I waiting eagerly for their Woodland Denizens to come out so we can do some stuff based on the Redwall series.
Good stuff here my friend.
:)
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