Fav Figs! A question

My favorites, in no particular order, are:

GZG, 25mm/starships
Eureka, 25mm Demonworld, 15mm Alternative Armies, 15mm
Reaper, 15 (more like 18:-) and 28 (more like 30) mm

> --- Pat Connaughton <ptconn@earthlink.net> wrote:

On a list that I sub to I ran across a query that I think might be of some
interest to the group.

Just for public interest, what are your favorite 5 or 6 figure
makers/suppplies and in what scales?

Any thoughts?

Thanks

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:04:57 -0800, "Pat Connaughton"
<ptconn@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Just for public interest, what are your favorite 5 or 6 figure

In no particular order:

- GZG Starships (not sure of the scale)
- GZG 25mm Stargrunt range
- Hallmark's 1/6000 scale pre-dreadnoughts
- RAFM's 25mm/28mm Call of Cthulhu line
- Old Glory 15mm American Civil War

B5 Fleet Action series Old Glory 15mm ACW (more personality than a lot of
25mm, we found a soldier sneering with bayonette lowered) GHQ Anything
Hallmark 1/6000 Naval
GW's first Space Orks and anything else by the same sculptor(they have
some nice items buried in the overpriced dross - nobody else makes 6mm
power armor in plastic)

okay, that's five

> Allan Goodall wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:04:57 -0800, "Pat Connaughton"
<ptconn@earthlink.net>
> wrote:

This is a difficult question for me seeing as I leave no manufacture's stuff
unaltered to one degree or other but here goes....

25 mm Ancient/Medieval old Minifig and
Hinchcliffe.........mostly for nostalgia (I was young once and here is the
proof sort of
thing ).....)

25mm Pike and Shot, Essex without question..

25mm Sic-fi too many to list.

Starships, GZG, SFB, AOG, and my Pits Box!

15mm Sci-fi RAFM and Peter Pig with lots
of kit bashes.

15mm WW2 to Modern ROCO and Quality Castings.

> On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Pat Connaughton wrote:

> On a list that I sub to I ran across a query that I think might be of

If we're going to seperate scale & company, my list is kind of skewed:

1. GZG 25mm 2. GZG 15mm 3. GZG 6mm
4. GZG FT starships (1/3000?)
5. Ral Partha - but only for the AD&D fantasy stuff they don't make
anymore! 6. Demonworld 15mm fantasy

Notice a trend here?:>

Favourite Companies makes more sense:

1. GZG 2. Demonworld
3. Ral Partha - see note above, though!
4. Peter Pig - all sorts of cool stuff
5. Reaper - great fantasy monsters

Later,

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> 1. GZG 25mm

Trend? What trend? More likely sanity no less See Ya

> Pat Connaughton wrote:

Lessee....I'm not as deeply dug in to the miniatures world as most people here
are (ie, I've heard lots of great things about Peter Pig, but really don't
have anything by them). So, here's my list given my current collection of
minis (which is larger than this list, but you
asked for top 5-6...)

GZG - starships, 1/300 Future Wars series, 15mm
Brigade - 15mm, 1/300, starships
DLD - 15mm
Ral Partha - B-tech stuff
Whoever did the plastic Federation starships The old Grenadier fantasy (25mm)
stuff

> Any thoughts?

Thinking bad, get one in trouble.

1. Old Glory 15s (ACW, FPW, Nap, Colonials)
2. Peter Pig (Fills in the gaps in Old Glory/best when you need 1 or 2
figs) 3. Essex (Pike and Shot, FPW) 4. Ral Partha 15mm Fantasy and Old Battle
Tech 5. 15mm Grenadier Fantasy 6. Martian Metals Traveller (Love those Vargr!)

> At 06:04 PM 3/15/02 -0800, you wrote:

Reaper: 25/28mm fantasy.  Truly beautiful figures, some so nice that I'm
afraid to risk painting them.

GZG: I buy all scales, but 6mm particularly. As a WGI article once noted, it's
difficult to decide whether you should game with the DSII figs, or make them
into jewelry.

Copplestone: 28mm Science Fiction. Miniatures with character. His Grenadier UK
"Future Warriors" figures are equally good.

Superior: Starships, in some really small scale. Lots of detail, really
nice models -- some of them so big that it's hard to call them
miniatures with a straight face.

Wargames Foundry: 25/28mm, modern/historical.  The prices are a bit
high, but as with the Copplestone figures these minis are dynamically posed
and
full of character.  The Old West/Victorian and the modern/near future
lines are just fantastic.

Fortress: 28mm and 6mm Science Fiction. Not as well sculpted, for the most
part, as the companies above...but $10.00 for 12 plastic figures (or 20
plastic tanks) is hard to beat. And their modern zombies paint up wonderfully
well.

I buy lots of other stuff -- not as much as I used to, mind -- but these
are the six that stick out in terms of quality.

> At 06:04 PM 3/15/2002 -0800, you wrote:

Gripping Beast Late Roman/Dark Ages/Byzantine 28-32+ mm ^_^

Old Glory 18mm Ancients (though I'm getting into FPW and play ACW with a

friend's mainly OG armies and they look great) (esp. their Skythians, any of
their warband or horse archers
[plenty of choices], cataphracts, Bosporan Infantry, Maitotian Infantry,

Kappadokian Cavalry, cataphracts, Elephants, oh and cataphracts) and Old Glory
28mm WWI and Colonial (Pathans, Freicorps, and Bersagliere oh
my!)

Essex 15mm Ancients used to fill gaps in the OG15mm line/variety, for
cataphracts that fit on a 40x30mm stand, and that wonder of ancient warfare,
Cataphract Camels. Their bolt throwers make excellent flaming pig throwers.

Peter Pig 15mm WWI/RCW (so many varieties, so many Russians to paint)

SJGames' reissue/expansion of their Ogre minis (esp. their Ogrethulhu) ?

1/285 1/300 ?

AOG's B5 Wars fleet action (esp. the Narn, Centauri, and assorted EA small
flying bricks)

I like GZG's lines though I've not bought enough of them *yet* to put them on
a very short list of favorite makers.

Special mention though to DP9's Ferret Heavy Gear with Butt Wheel deployed...

> Any thoughts?

Evidently I like exotic hats and pre-Industrial Age tanks. (I play
mainly Austrian in Napoleonics but also have some Bavarians...)

> Thanks

Yer welcome.

> At 10:19 PM 3/15/2002 -0600, you wrote:
<ptconn@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
<snip>
> - Hallmark's 1/6000 scale pre-dreadnoughts

> - RAFM's 25mm/28mm Call of Cthulhu line
Reviresco also makes some decent cars and figures for the period. (good price
as well) Including a certain Police Box and a Martian Tripod...

Sorta On topic note: Um, You can always CoC beasties as various aliens or
alien beasties. And I'm sure The Doctor is messing around somewhere,
sometime in the Tuffyverse. And I think somebody did a Aeronef/Airship
conversion of Full Thrust. Aeronef the game was inspired by Full Thrust.

(ironclads tend to make good Aeronefs)

> - Old Glory 15mm American Civil War
Very well done and he's got enough extras left over for me to have a nice
brigade or two...(gotta luv 100 figure bags o_O)

> Allan Goodall agoodall@hyperbear.com

Pretty scary how close this gets to the real thing! Now if someone could

make a Clark A. Smith Poem Generator...

> From: "Pat Connaughton" <ptconn@earthlink.net>

6mm: C-in-C, GZG
Nominally 6mm/close to 10 mm: Ral Partha Battletech
25/28mm (Mostly for RPG's): Ral Partha, Middle Earth RPG (Can't remember
the company).

3B^2

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> From: KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de (K.H.Ranitzsch)

> > Middle Earth RPG (Can't remember the company).

Yes, those are the ones.  Very nice indeed, I use them in D&D - had a
ranger of Ithilien, my favorite. His bow broke, i'd love to find a replacement

part. *sigh*

3B^2

> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Brian Bilderback wrote:

> >From: KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de (K.H.Ranitzsch)

Could you describe the figure? I _may_ have one lying about unpainted...

Cheers,

> From: Derk Groeneveld <derk@cistron.nl>

> Could you describe the figure? I _may_ have one lying about

Wearing woodland garb, cloaked with a burnoose around his lower face, bent
forward slightly, bow in left hand, right hand reaching towards his back to
draw an arrow from his quiver.

3B^2

> At 09:24 18/03/02 +0100, Karl Heinz wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- > 6mm: C-in-C, GZG

GW also did a range of Middle Earth miniatures a long time ago as well. Beth
has one in her dwarf army, Thorin riding on a pony.

If anyone's interested you can find see it masquerading as 'Don Falloff' on
the personalities page of her dwarf army picture gallery.

http://www.users.bigpond.com/derekfulton/Dwarf Gallery/Dwarf Gallery
Frame-2.htm

Cheers

> On a list that I sub to I ran across a query that I think might be >of

In no particular order:

Ral Partha - 1/300 - Battletech
Langton - 1/1200 - Napoleonic Naval
Rackham - 28mm - Confrontation
Mithril (Prince August) - 25mm - Middle Earth
GZG - 25mm, 1/300, 1/2400
Grendel - 28mm - Kryomek

i had to do some thinking about this.

a.  GW's early "Star Soldiers" , V1 metal IG, and V2 metal/plastic IG.

b. Essex Medievals

c.  Foundry/Copplestone Miniatures DA  and Return to Darkest Africa.
Copplestone Miniatures Future Warriors.

d.  Icon/Black Tree/Harliquinn WW II Soldiers.

e.  Baker Company/Battle Honors American GIs from the RVN WARS line.

f. Ral Partha NO # 2 nostalgia. FOR YEARS he most beautiful and detailed toys
around.

g. Hinchliffe. my very first 25mm historical miniatures love, that
led me into this grand	hobby. nostalgia   NO #1.

h.  MCEWAN STARGUARD MINIATURES.  Nostalgia #3-these are the  figures
that got e into sci-fi gaming long ago.

Thanks Karl, my 6mm/Fantasy persona is on it and I was drawing a blank
ont he address. The wonderful world of 6mm for us painting impaired
types...

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 07:03:38 +0100 KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de
> (K.H.Ranitzsch) writes: