Reaper Miniatures is not a company I've been familiar with. To be honest, I couldn't tell you how I ended up perusing their catalog of figures. Probably in my search for figures of generic 'critters' to be used in 'Palaeo Diet'. Sure enough, I found the aforementioned rats and pugs but also a terrific 'Dire Bear' and a Mammoth. I also purchased a cyclops to go with my Trojan War figures and a sphynx more in line with the Greek myth of Oedipus rather than the architectural Egyptian version. Those will get painted later. Meanwhile I didn't want the paleolithic figures to languish in the painting queue.
While painting the bear I realized... I have more big bears than I ever thought I'd need!
Interestingly enough, the two darker bears in the picture above are 54mm figures from the old Italeri gladiator set. The other three, while considerably larger, are ostensibly 28mm though they do depict ancient species.
And to give a better sense of scale... I think this poor guy is in for a spot of trouble! Oh, bother!
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