Julie Guthries’ Women of adventure box set

FIREBALL!

More than ten years ago I bought a bunch of miniatures on a closing sale of a webshop belonging to some game store in southern Sweden. This was before easy to use freeware webshops, so there was just a single line of text with the title of the product. It must have been very cheap because I bought a lot of stuff.

One thing I got was several box sets with RPG miniatures from the long defunct Grenadier Models. I recently pulled them out from the bottom of my pile of gaming stuff and thought I should write a couple of lines about them. First out is the Julie Guthries’ Women of Adventure Box Set! This box was released in 1992, and is a collection of minatures sculpted in the mid to late 80’s

For all of you who haven’t heard about her, Julie Guthrie is truly a veteran sculptor in the miniatures industry. She is probably best known for all the RPG miniatures she has sculpted for Grenadier, Ral Partha and  currently Reaper Miniatures.

As you can see in the top of the post the box art features a very 80’s looking sorceress who is just about to blast you with a fireball while looking fabolous, in the background a female fighter is charging forward to chop your charred remains in to little pieces. It also proclaims  proudly that it contains a limited edition miniature.

The box insert shows that the woman on the cover is a black sorceress. All the other archetypical are also represented.

No, I could not resist to start priming and painting until after I photographed them.

The sculpts are very nice even though they are bit dated. They are very finely detailed and well proportioned even though the heads are a bit big and round. The women are quite reasonably dressed and armed unlike a lot of miniatures you see. More importantly though, they are not posing for a pin-up photo shoot, which if most miniature lines are to believed are quite a common occurence in fantasy worlds.

So far I have only painted the rogue. I painted 80% of this miniaure ten years ago, let it sit in a box until finished up the details a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully I’ll get more done soon.

Finally, for all of you who haven’t heard about her, Julie Guthrie is truly a veteran sculptor in the miniatures industry. She is probably best known for all the RPG miniatures she has sculpted for Grenadier, Ral Partha and currently Reaper Miniatures.

Further Reading:

If you want to read up more on Grenadier the wikpedia page has a lot of info.

The excellent Oldhammer on a budget blog has post about Grenadier models as well as several links to manufacturers that produce some of Grenadiers old range. Unfortunately I have not been able to find anyone who manufacturers who has Julie Guthries old sculpts. So ebay is probably your best bet.

Reaper Miniatures has a lot current (and some very good) sculpts from Julie Guthrie.