What was your first mini?

[getagrip]

Fort Apache; how cool was that?

[Ithoriel]

I had the Roman Fort and the Sheriff of Nottingham's Castle.

[Fenton]

I had the Roman Fort and the Sheriff of Nottingham's Castle.

Me to..I had a great plastic vacuum  moulded Celtic hill fort by Bellona I think it was

[getagrip]

I had the Roman Fort and the Sheriff of Nottingham's Castle.

That was on my want but never got list 

[Steeleye]

British infantry by Airfix back in the early 60s.

These were followed by more Airfix figures and models plus a load of 54mm figures by various manufacturers.

My first metal figures were 25mm bought in the mid-70's from the Minifigs shop in Southampton...and I can't for the life of me remember what they were!

My first Pendraken figures that I bought were WWI early British in about 2005 when I was trying to decide what scale to concentrate on, I eventually chose 10mm due to space constraints and 6mm being too small for my eyes and fingers. Never looked back from that point onwards.

[SerialLoser]

Ral Partha Orcs about 25 years ago. Odd scale, guess they were 1/72ish, didn't match anything my friends had.

[getagrip]

Ral Partha Orcs about 25 years ago. Odd scale, guess they were 1/72ish, didn't match anything my friends had.

Weren't they a bit smaller than 25 / 28mm?

[Techno]

Much smaller.
As well as being shorter they were much 'finer'.
Damn fine sculpts, though !
Cheers - Phil

[Fenton]

Those are the ones Julie Guthrie did, aren't they?

[Westmarcher]

Hi

I had the original cowboy set in dark brown. Here is a whole article on the High Chaparral set :-

http://airfixfigs.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/s38-wild-west-madia-related-high.html

I thought something wasn't right colour-wise. Originally in brown right enough. Quite disconcerting however to read the bloggers suggestion that the Manolito figure was originally designed for being mounted ! 

And wasn't Blue Boy, big John's son?

[getagrip]

Much smaller.
As well as being shorter they were much 'finer'.
Damn fine sculpts, though !
Cheers - Phil

Yeah, remember them.  Seems to resonate with something else you said about "cheating" with proportion; these didn't and, as a consequence, looked thin.

[SerialLoser]

Much smaller.
As well as being shorter they were much 'finer'.
Damn fine sculpts, though !
Cheers - Phil

nice figures with good proportions - no cartoon orcs. It was just next to my mates GW stuff they looked tiny.

[Jc]

 Like a lot of my age group it was packs of Airfix from Wollies in the mid 60's,and shot at with matches out of Dinky field guns on the living room floor.First metal figures were Lamming ancient Greeks in 25mm for my 1st 1000 point army in the early 70s.I used to walk across Hull to Bills workshop on wincolmlea street to buy them,used to take pity on me and throw a few extras in because i'd walked so far,but like a true Yorkshire man,it was to save the bus fare and get one more figure,they were expensive at 1s6d(8p),and the bus fare 6d each way.Happy days.

[Techno]

Those are the ones Julie Guthrie did, aren't they?

I think so, Steve.
Though a fair few of the ones that went into the early Citadel Journals were by Tom Meir.
I'm pretty sure there was a third designer at Ral Partha back then, with a very similar style to those two....But I just cannot remember her name at the mo'.

Cheers - Phil

[getagrip]

I think so, Steve.
Though a fair few of the ones that went into the early Citadel Journals were by Tom Meir.
I'm pretty sure there was a third designer at Ral Partha back then, with a very similar style to those two....But I just cannot remember her name at the mo'.

Cheers - Phil

There was a certain elegance about those miniatures; almost like they'd been lifted off ornamental fountains