Talk Fantasy Football

While browsing my old White Dwarfs I found a pic of the Treeman#3 which apparently has slipped Galak when he made his article list. It's in WD #115 (July 1989)

Nice pic. It actually looks pretty mean. I've always considered all the 2ed Treemen are pretty lame but I have to have them. I just got one of those in the mail, he had the fist arms instead of the birdnest arms but I don't think that's as important as the head. Maybe I'll have to have him painted.

Hmmm mix and match there .

I'll try to get the article listed amended.

Galak

I've always considered all the 2ed Treemen are pretty lame

You're not the only one.

Never saw this Treeman before.

IIRC the 2nd edition treemen had seperate heads, torsos and legs so you could easily have had that head with the other torso.

I have both torso's but unfortunately only the other (worse) head.

Yes, only the head piece is different to the other Treemen, making that small lump of pewter quite expensive...

I think there's two different leg sets as well, though I do not really see the difference ..

There might be a (very) slight difference in the angle of the legs, but so far I didn't noticed any difference in the legs I saw in real so far. Could be just the normal bending that happens while casting/mail ordering/playing or whatever for 10 years...

hm, i dont knew, what´s now the right numbers of the treemen ?! I listed him at my site as #2... (same combinations like the pict, which Narcotic posted). Any ideas ?
I have to check the different leg sections of my few treemen more closely tonight ...

Traveller

tree #2 is the LOTR tree

this is #3

I guess you left out the LOTR tree and nubered this one #2 .. that's even better IMHO

I do not really see the difference between both leg sets

he, he, the old Treeman controversy, actually numbering them 1 through 4 is know common I guess, after all Galaks list numbering is used for all other BB minis as well.

Anyway what I know is that:
I have seen #2 in 1988 being sold in LoTR blisters (Treebeard the mighty Ent), SOL has a catalogue page proving this as well
On Games Day UK 1992 #2 was displayed as Blood Bowl Ent among other BB minis (maybe they wanted variations??)
Around the same time 91-92 you were given #2 by GW-shop employees if you asked for a Blood Bowl Treeman, at least a friend of me asked in London and was sold #2. Still Treeman 1/4 were around the same time, depending what the shop stocked. I can't remember if the Tree#2 was packed in bloodbowl or warhammer blisters.
It was quite normal for GW to incorporate minis into exisitng games systems from ranges they lost the licence for.
I guess they sold yee olde Treebeard as a BB Treeman until their stock run out...

horrible models, but I like the colour scheme in the pic...

Fenerbahce Istanbul?

Its really a minor thing ... but at some point the Leg mould was changed and the extra peg was removed from the leg. So the first version has pegs on both legs and the 2nd only on one.

And I left the LOTR Tree on the site when I found out that they were using him for a BB Treeman in the early days.

Galak