Dark Alliance offers a range of fantasy figures, somewhat generic though no hobbits to be found. Detail is good but there is a lot of flash on some figures. These come attached to sprues, tricky for the cavalry, and need to be clipped off.
Martian Metals held a strong presence in the 70s and 80s with a variety of licensed ranges, notably Steve Jackson Games, Runequest, and Traveller. At the time, 25mm was still a dominant range so 15mm seemed like something new, especially si…
Caesar Miniatures look better than the box cover suggests. They lean heavily on WW II, contemporary combat, fantasy, and biblical stuff. The figures I have seen use lots of grays though some use brightly colored plastic like the strikingly
I realized as I looked at the site that I have managed little with the content over the past year, a pretty long time. I found something I had started working on and quickly realized that the new editor used by wordpress is inscrutable to m…
The summer was far from tranquil. I had hoped to avoid travel but wound up in Liverpool and London. If you take a train out of Euston station, do not take the cheapest seat. Reserve a seat. You will have a nicer trip. And ignore Rick Steves…
The summer was far from tranquil. I had hoped to avoid travel but wound up in Liverpool and London. If you take a train out of Euston station, do not take the cheapest seat. Reserve a seat. You will have a nicer trip. And ignore Rick Steves…
It is almost July and I have not written a thing since winter. I attribute it to age. I now have a tendency like some shelless tortoise to stop where I am and brood. Little gets accomplished. Utah has escaped the heat dome enveloping the co…
It is almost July and I have not written a thing since winter. I attribute it to age. I now have a tendency like some shelless tortoise to stop where I am and brood. Little gets accomplished. Utah has escaped the heat dome enveloping the co…
Martin Luther King Jr. Day fittingly marks a return to sanity. The holiday season is finally over, the traveling is done, and I did not pet the capybara. I have finally pulled out every last box of figures that I have. I have found stuff I
Martin Luther King Jr. Day fittingly marks a return to sanity. The holiday season is finally over, the traveling is done, and I did not pet the capybara. I have finally pulled out every last box of figures that I have. I have found stuff I
Halloween is some great boundary marker into the insanity that slashes its way through to the day after New Years. It is a marker of years flowing by far worse than birthday since death and taxes are on the way. I cannot think of a bright s…
Mirliton S.G. is based in Italy and not surprisingly puts out a broad range of historical figures associated with Italy. They also produce fantasy and sf lines. Scales are 15mm, 20mm, 28mm, and 1/43. Soccer team players and Italian police a…