"Which Minis Company Would You Work For?" Topic

If you could pick any miniatures company to work for, which company would you choose?

Hasslefree, Khurasan, or Rebel. I did a stint at Dark Age Games, had a great time, but had to move on.

That depends on a number of factors… not least of them the answer, to "who pays best?"

Uprising Miniatures, those guys are great.

Reaper. Based in Texas.

Kings Mountain….I own it.

Rebel Minis or Peter Pig.

I have worked for Games Workshop, Agents of Gaming (AOG) & Chessex – at this point I'm not sure if I'd venture back into the gaming industry

Perry Bros. Miniatures. Love their work and understand they are incredibly nice people.

I would work for Old Glory. It's only a 4 hour drive.
And it would get me out of the cold selling comcast.
I need some Government troops for my Sword and the Haggis project.

Depends a lot on what you mean by 'work for', as well as who it is. I've designed games, sculpted scenery pieces, made terrain, written background material for lots of companies – at least a dozen – over 25 years. These have ranged from princes to tyrants to utter scoundrels. These things are not immediately clear at the outset, and sometimes not until late in the experience.

My special thumbs up goes to Frank Chadwick who, when GDW went under, still paid me from his own pocket for a work that was never going to get published.

There are some pretty interesting responses above.
I have worked for GW in the past. Went for a job at HBH.
I think i would like working at PP.
Don't think any "one man shows" could count. Though Rebel Mike looks like a swell guy to work for in all the right reasons.
There are others that are just not sitting in my brain this late at night.

Grimm

I'd like to work for Black Scorpion but I'd never give myself a job. In fact if I wasn't in charge I'd have fired myself a long time ago for sheer incompetence .

Ha – well if you want to live in penury, give up every other weekend, give yourself a hernia and get very rough fingers from all the clipping off – go ahead – I suspect it would be the same for any – if its a plastic company you can substitute carcinogenic chemical fumes for lead poisoning – but hey enjoy your discount !

Peter Pig

Been there, if I had to work for such a company, I'd pick one with things like health insurance and pension schemes, fixed wages, and I'd problably pick an administrative job that leaves me with time to enjoy the hobby at my own leisure rather than be feel the urge to spend my free time "away from the hobby/work"

Kriegspielers/Heritage/Empire…so that I could keep those wonderful 15mm lines in production, or at least cast enough for myself!

Thank you Sundance, Grimmnar and F Wally! We only employ 3 full time staff and a sculptor/factotum(unpaid). They are worked very hard indeed! They deserve more money, but all wages are paid at UK rates with tax etc.
Appreciated

martin

Warlord Games would be my choice. I enjoy the product and the gentleman I have met at the conventions from the company seemed to enjoy what they were doing. Paul Sawyer and John Stallard were great to talk with at a convention a couple of years back.

Erik

Games Workshop pre-corporation accountant run days. The creativity and variety of their early output tells you a lot about the way things must have been run behind the scenes. The company would probably be bust by now, along with most of the old companies, but it would have been a fun time.

It's certainly nice working with Elhiem and GZG! :)

All the miniatures guys I've worked with (barring the mandatory exception that makes the rule) have been nice, reasonable people that I believe would be a ball to work for. Sadly, I have no talent in sculpting, casting, or anything else particularly useful to such an endeavor . . .

Shawn.

peter Pig and 15mm.uk

Prince August/Mithril, Reaper, Dark Sword, Thunderbolt Mntn.

Reaper or Mantic. I actually applied to Mantic at the very beginning when it first started up.

dsfrank, I remember you from your days at GW! I met you several times when you were the GW rep that came to Days Of Knights in Newark, DE. In fact, I was looking through some old school GW stuff a while back and found a packet of info and order sheets you sent me when I asked about ordering the old Dungeon Floor Plans sets from you. You were always a great and enthusiastic guy to deal with. 👍

I can only speak regarding my experience as a customer, and with these gents' presence on TMP, but Irregular, Alternative Armies/15mm.uk and Peter Pig all seem like the nicest guys: polite, helpful, with lots of fun, innovative products!

Not a miniatures company but I wouldn't mind working for the war store.

The one that paid the most.

Crossover Minis

LOL !!!! I would suggest that a very precious few (if any) of you would ever embrace the joy and ecstasy that you are envisioning by working at your favorite miniature company. let your hobby remain your hobby or forever be pulling white balls of talc from your nose? By the way, Old Glory is looking for another full time caster at the moment.
regards
Russ Dunaway

I have heard a first account of a alcoholic getting a job in a bar to break his habit.

Company D miniatures for me

Any that paid at least minimum wage and didn't require me to inhale fumes.

Perry!

White Wolf back in the day.
(Yes, they made a few miniatures, so they qualify for the thread ;) )

Sorry, none. Seems like a lot of work and… drum roll… working with a public that (well,I don't,) don't understand what is involved.

couldn't take the 80% pay cut…. :-)

I work for Thouroughbred Figures now. The owner is a great boss and gives me my pick of parking spots. I have been the employee of the week every week this year!

Pendraken, because Leon is a really nice guy, and because I would finally make my US Army M2 Medium tank.

Master Caster – Sounds like ballot stuffing! :-)

Working for Northstar might be interesting, but it would be a very long commute.

As I am actually about to advertise for a caster the nominations on the poll don't fill me with optimism…

Empress if they give staff discount :-)

A thread like this does show that there are a lot of really good people in the hobby.

I'm with BuckeyeAKADarryl, the old Heritage line, but would also like to add Mikes Models. What can I say I'm old school

Why do I find it funny that there are people who want to work for companies that no longer exist?
Regards
Russ Dunaway

Change history of course :-)

Warlord could be fun.

Russ, what is the pay range and benefits you are offering for that casting position?

Just one more question, do you perform a full body search your employees before they leave the factory?