TAG Industries Chimps and Apes -Finished

Here are the Chimp and Ape miniatures, featured in my last two posts, now fully painted.  These have been in my collection for literally decades, so it's pretty nice to have them finally painted up.

 The Apes:  

The Chimps:

And because Allison of Painting Agency fame begged me to do it.....

I made a 2001 style monolith (out of green stuff and a piece of balsa wood) for these guys to run around.  Ha.

TAG Industries Chimps and Apes in Progress

Just an update on the Chimps and Apes featured in my last post.  In addition to basing the figures, I sculpted a club for the ape with a rock, and added a top half of a spear onto the chimp with a broken weapon.  I think the club will look good, the shaft of the spear might have gotten a little thicker than it should have been.

I then primed them in brown to make them a little faster to paint up.  Expect to see more soon.

TAG Industries Chimps and Apes

Unfortunately, I don't have any painted minis to show this month, but I thought I would share what I'm painting next: some apes and chimps from TAG Industries' Children of Fantasy Line.  These minis are from the early to mid 80s and have been in my collection and have remained unpainted since that time.  It would appear that they are fairly rare as I haven't found any pictures of them on the internet other than those on the Lost Minis Wiki, and some of those pictures, I provided.  (I know that at some point Raven's Forge Casting bought the TAG Industries lines but I'm not sure how many figures they produced and they appear to no longer exist.)  I'm also unsure how they were sold, but I'm assuming I purchased these as a set and not individually (or rather as a kid, talked my mom into buying for me. Ha.)

After years of sitting in my "lead mountain," I finally decided to paint these to use as a group of more war-like Pakuni for a Land of the Lost/Lost Civilization game.  I figured they would go well with the Sleestaks I recently painted.  They don't look all that much like the costumes/make-up from the show, but it won't matter, as I'll need something more threatening any way. You'll notice that the two figures on the ends have broken weapons that I will need to do something about.

Here's Chaka, a Pakuni, for comparison if you are unfamiliar with the show.

Chimp with Spear-that needs fixing.

Ape with Club

Chimp with Axe

Ape with Rock- and I am assuming he used to have club

Chimp with Club

Ape Beating Chest

Now to get these fixed up, based, and primed...