| SealladhArd | 23 Apr 2012 2:12 p.m. PST |
Kingsleypark's Wargaming Menagerie My first metal mini is 33 years old this year link So folks what was your first metal miniature? How did you come by it and more importantly, do you still have it? |
| HistoriFigs | 23 Apr 2012 2:31 p.m. PST |
My first metal miniature would have been a Scruby 20mm ACW figure. Couldn't tell you the original catalog number but today we refer to it as:
INFANTRY (in Kepi Hats)
2202 Standing, on guard These/these were used for conversions for FPW.
I still have this first batch of figures, however, I couldn't tell which box they are hidden in. Bought at about the same time (or within a week or so) my next metal figures were Scruby N-Gauge Napoleonic. Still have these too – been re-based several times over the years. |
| jameshammyhamilton | 23 Apr 2012 2:40 p.m. PST |
Sadly I no longer have my first metal miniature :( It was one of 12 Hinchliffe Roman legionaries. It would have been 38 years old this year. I bought him and his 11 mates from the local wargames shop when such things existed. I do remember that the box of 12 cost a princely 96 pence. |
| Sysiphus | 23 Apr 2012 4:03 p.m. PST |
Mine was a blister of Custom Cast Vikings, marching, spear on shoulder and shield at their left side. I still have all six of them, rather smallish 25mm figures, painted in Humbrol oils. Painted in 1978 they are 34 years old. |
John Leahy  | 23 Apr 2012 4:22 p.m. PST |
Mine were Custom Cast LOTR figs.I bought several packs. The Archers of Morthond are all I have left. Painted with Humbrol purple and blue. Thanks, John |
| 11th ACR | 23 Apr 2012 6:07 p.m. PST |
My first metal miniature were in 1972. And would have been a Scruby 25mm Napoleonic Lippe Bn.
There were 36 figures, 6 company's of 6 fig's each, 1 Gren, 1 Volt, 4 Fus.
I no longer have them or pictures of them but remember them well. |
| Kayl MacLaren | 23 Apr 2012 7:33 p.m. PST |
The TSR Fighers, Rangers, and Paladins set. Not may of them survived the years, unfortunately… |
| Toshach | 23 Apr 2012 8:31 p.m. PST |
Ral Partha's "Death Dealer," based on a Frazetta work if I remember correctly. |
| Cerdic | 23 Apr 2012 11:27 p.m. PST |
Mine was a Napoleonic British Rifles officer from Minifigs. Bought from a shop in the High Street in about 1974/5. Still have it somewhere….. |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 24 Apr 2012 12:05 a.m. PST |
My first Minis were Heritage King Arthur line. I still have most of them in my early Crusader army. They are now 35 years old. |
korsun0  | 24 Apr 2012 4:03 a.m. PST |
Minifigs strip Romans, 1978….still going and I'm still looking for more……:) |
| Broadsword | 24 Apr 2012 6:04 a.m. PST |
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| religon | 24 Apr 2012 9:20 a.m. PST |
These Grenadier orcs were my very first…
The humans closely followed. Others have shared here… TMP link |
| The Dozing Dragon | 26 Apr 2012 6:52 p.m. PST |
A sample 15mm figure from Peter Laing and a 1/300 tank of some sort from Skytrex. Put me off metal for a while…..that was 1975 I think? Next up was a set of newly released Hinchliffe late Byzantines…1976…all got painted as well (which doesn't happen often these days). I gave them away some years later to Tony Cottrel who now works at Forge World. |
| Elenderil | 28 Apr 2012 2:50 p.m. PST |
My first metal figures were a mini figs Gallic chieftain and a minifigs Greek officer. Bought in 1971 to provide leaders to my assorted Airfix figures. Over the next couple of years I bought myself a Hinchcliffe late roman Army. I still have all of them. |
| The Dozing Dragon | 28 Apr 2012 5:59 p.m. PST |
I did get a bunch of Lamming Vikings and Romans….still have the vikings…possibly ealrier than the Hinchliffe purchase but can't remember now  |
begins to think about terrain for Team Yankee.
