No Name Latest Figure Release: Vikings Andrey has sent photos and information on these new figures. We call the company No Name because we do not know its name! The company has already done Romans and knights. Now the company has done Vikings.
No Name Latest Figure Release: Vikings The Figures
The new set contains five figures four foot and one mounted. The figures are 60m.
The foot poses are as follow. First foot pose is Viking with axe in his right. The left hand has a spear and shield. Second pose is a Viking with two handed axe with shield on his back. Third pose is Viking standing with spear in right hand and shield in left hand. Fourth pose is a Viking with sword overhead in his right hand. The left hand has a spear and a shield.
The mounted Viking pose is a Viking with sword
Here we see the figure from the other side. Note that three of the legs have little stands so the horse should stand with no problem.
Here we the mounted Viking figure off his horse. You will notice that No Name used the peg to hold the rider on the horse.
The horse comes in four pieces that you have to put together. It is held by two screws.
No Name Latest Figure Release: Vikings Comparison
Andrey besides sending us photos of the No Name Vikings has done some comparison photos. The first shows the No Name Viking with a Jescan Viking reissue.
Second photo shows No Name Viking with a Cherilea Viking.
Final photo shows No Name Viking with a Barzso Collectibles now LOD Enterprises Normans.
No Name Latest Figure Release: Vikings Final Thoughts
Once again No Name has done some great and well detailed figures. I wish they had done some more action poses. I wonder how dificult it will be putting the horse together.
If you are interested in these figures you can buy them from Andrey on Ebay
For me any new plastic Vikings in nice, I will get one set of these or maybe two. I have seen some of these before on ebay cast in metal for around $7 to $10 a piece. I am going to clip of the horns on the mounted figure and make the two handed axe look more like a Dane Axe. Thanks for sharing.
Not bad looking figures and I especially like the Viking with the double-axe, But as ive eluded to before these figures are more 65mm than 60mm in scale so I probably wont be getting these as I dont want to many giants in my collection. Im set in my ways.
The Vikings are very nice. I am not in a Medieval mood now, but I might get one set at some time before they become unavailable.
I never realized the Barszo/LOD Sherriff’s men were so large! I thought they would be the same true 54mm size as the resin Barszo figures. When they were reissued by LOD I had intended to get both sets to use with my Airfix, Marx and Accurate medievals but that last picture changes everything. If they are the same size as the No Name Vikings, they would dwarf my whole Medieval collection except for the Jecsan stuff. I use the savage looking Jecsan Huns and Vikings for fantasy giant warriors, but the Merry Men and Normans just wouldn’t suit my needs at that size.
Are the Barszo/LOD soft plastic Revolutionary War sets this size as well?
The Barzso/LOD Sheriff’s Men and Robin Hood Merrymen are in the same 60mm scale as the Marx 60mm knights and Merrymen figures are — actually a nearly exact match in both height and body sculpting. They are also the same scale as the Expeditionary Force Medieval knight sets.
All of them are beautiful sculpts. I can’t help but believe that those who don’t get them because they aren’t in the same scale as some older lines are depriving themselves of some truly great figures.
The Lexington Green Revolutionary War sets are in the same 60mm scale — all beautiful sculpts.
This is the most common scale of most of the “modern” production — Conte, TSSD, Barzso, LOD, Paragon, and this new “no-name” Russian production as well.
Hi Don I totally agree with you that most of these New figures are really nice sculpts, And I do collect 60mm figures, But as ive mentioned before almost all my collection is between 50mm and 60mm and even the figures that ive converted over the past few years are 5omm to 60mm tall. Now I do have some taller figures, But I dont want lots of 65mm to 70mm figures as they just dont go with my smaller figures, And seeing as ive got a collection of several thousand figures im not starting over with these taller figures that are coming out lately, But hey ive been through this before and its just my opinion. So I hope these figures sell well and good on whoever buys them but not for me. The good news is that there are still figures of 50mm to 60mm still being made so im happy with that.
The Revolutionary War figures would be alright for me, as I have Conte’s “Alamo Defenders” with their Rogers’ Rangers and frontiersmen and the AIP Indians and Rangers to go with them. Even then, that cuts out the large amount of Marx and Accurate 1700s figures I already have.
I’m going to pass on the LOD Robin Hood sets, however. I never liked the Marx 60mm knights or Merry Men. The 54mm figures are so much better looking and I have tons of them. Might buy a set of the No Name Vikings as a novelty.
I will buy larger scale figures if I really, really like the sculpt, or if the subject matter is one that I enjoy, but find it hard to get in 54mm. However, these larger ones usually just wind up gathering dust if I already have a lot of 54mm figures in the same era.
Case in point: Weston’s extremely nice Mexican banditos and villagers. These guys even dwarf the Magnificent Seven gunslingers in their own range. As well-made as they are, I would love to use them in my Western games, but they just look ridiculously huge next to the vast amount of 54mm Western figures I already have… So I can have a huge set-up with all my 54mm guys, a weird land of the giants set-up mixing the two scales or a small set-up with the 60mm figures.
I am very glad to see all the excellently sculpted figures that have come out in the last decade or two, but I must say I would be a lot happier and would have bought a lot more figures if the scale creep had never happened. That, and the Basevich price inflation are my two biggest peeves about modern toy soldier collecting.
In terms of my Medieval collection, I switched over to the 60mm figures mainly because of the Ex Force sets. The Marx 54mm sets are nice but they are late Medieval knights with no archers or peasant type infantry. The Accurate set is nice also but 1/35 scale. I had to do many conversions but there are many choices for 60mm Medieval such as Marx, Barszo/LOD, Reamsa, Jescan, Conte, Chelrea and Dulcop. Even the Italeri Medieval heads can be converted on 60mm because of the large head sculpting style Italeri uses.
Tom, if you haven’t already done so, you should look at the Marx 60mm Robin Hood knights. They go perfectly with both Exp. Force and Barzso.
For originals, they are expensive at about $6 – $7 per figure. But they are out in reissues, carried by Classic Toy Soldiers, Delson’s Toy Soldier Company, and possibly Toy Soldier HQ. ATS also carries them, I believe.
I was never a big fan of 60mm and avoided the scale for years; then Conte came out with their figures that weren’t really quite 6omm but at the same time not quite 1/32 or 54mm – it took time but I adjusted. I manage to keep both scales and either separate them in the scene so the differences aren’t that obvious or use them in separate battles and scenes.
I love the 54mm Marx Robin Hood figures; they and the their “Fighting Knights’ guys were my “go-to” Medieval guys (as well as some Britains’ Knockoffs I picked up from Big Lots). Then my wife gave me Barzso’s “Robin Hood” set the Christmas came out – I’d never had much use for the Marx 6omm Robin Hood figures but I made it my quest to get as many as I could to compliment the Barzso Set. It was only then I truly began to appreciate their charm.
I set all my Medieval guys up in a big battle scene with the Nottingham Castle and a castle I built and took pix. The 54mm Marx guys are dwarfed by Conte’s Normans, Vikings, and Saxons, and Conte’s guys aren’t quite as large as the 60mm figures. So I will probably not use them together, but no problem for me; as I said, I can use them separately.
As far as the Barzso ARW figures are concerned, I never noticed that much of a difference in size, but I haven’t had them out in quite awhile and don’t know if I’ve ever been able to get out all my Marx, Accurate, ACTA, ARW guys and set them up together – though it is my hope to do so one day.
I have noticed on those larger scale figures I’ve managed to paint that somehow the paint job manages to minimize the size difference a bit. I don’t know, perhaps it’s an optical illusion, but I’ve noticed it with my Alamo figures (I still don’t think I’d stand a Barzso pioneer next to a Conte guy).
But to each his own – I can’t blame anyone for passing on a set these days with budgets and prices. I know I am severely tempted to splurge for these guys.
My biggest problem with the scale variation is the huge disappointment I get when I have a particular scenario planned out that winds up unfeasible due to scale difference. Case in point: The main reason I bought the AIP Woodland Indians was to use them in 1650s Canadian “Beaver Wars” scenarios using ACTA English Civil War musketeer figures mixed with selected Accurate Minutemen and Marx frontiersmen for French colonists and trappers. So I finally get the Indians without seeing a comparison pic and they look like ogres next to the older figures… So much for The Battle of Long Sault, unless I use the somewhat unappealing early CTS Mohawks and gather a whole bunch of Marx and MPC Mohawks.
The ‘No Name’ Vikings attire is probably more realistic than some of the other makes. The helmet horns are not.
You’re right, a pair of sprue cutters or an X-acto knife will do the trick.
In my opinion.
Figures are nice.Well done and poses.
Scale(63 /66mm) not 60mm in the already long produced more common scale that as I say many times before but some do not agree is the norm and will continue and expand.
Bad things.
It is very odd see viking in horse or cavalry of viking.
Traditional and historical ,very few or none is known about viking using it .Even In Russian land conquered and colonized by then. Account of battles barrely mention it.
In iceland and Norway few sagas talk of local shiftain bands using the small bulky Scandinavian horse not depicted abobe .
The horse made looks like a marching well train knight horse.
Viking move in ships that were not suitable to carry horese.
Their forces would at land move to near areas in foot quick to either attack and plunder then go back to ship or if stay colonize land and stablish near rivers and sea coast to continued their same rutine as base point.
Normans (viking) cousing did adopt and used then way more.
In several battles normans defeat viking using cavalry .
They could had use the horse complicated mold to make two more poses figures instead.
My thoughts.
Best regards…
As far as the Ex-Force figures go I haven’t made my mind up yet as to collect them or not, I brought 2 sets of the English Medieval figures and in turns of height they are fine with me being about 58mm on average so they fit into my range of 50mm to 60mm which is great. Although they are really nicely sculpted figures what ive noticed is that they are very thick set figures. So where as alot of my 1/32 scale medieval men look as if they weigh about 180lbs, The Ex-Force figures look as if they have all been working out and taking steroids and weigh 300lbs. So next to my other figures they look very thick. So im 50/50 as to buy more medieval and the Ancient figures they have produced, That’s my only gripe about these figures. Just my opinion.
They are nicely sculpted figures, but not exactly action packed poses. If your thing is setting up big battles these guys have their limits for sure.
I agree with Don, here. The Marx 60 mm knights are excellent. You can find recasts in a really nice silver/pewter for recast money. Hobby Bunker always has bags of them at shows and you can find them on Ebay easily. One of the best made recasts ever done, in my view. The color is perfect and the plastic soft.
I don’t really collect knights, but these are an exception. I do have some Robin Hood sets and these augment them nicely. I also use Barszo’s guys which are a good match.
Q: What secret language did the Vikings use to talk to each other ?
A: Norse Code !