Dean AKI | 05 Jul 2015 4:33 p.m. PST |
Hey folks, Just wrote up a list of my top ten ranges of wargaming models on my blog. I've not permitted myself to pick manufacturers as a whole in general, but rather specified sets or ranges that made gaming for me. link What would be on your lists? I appreciate I go mainly for larger scale models, but I'm sure others will passionately fight the corner for the little guy… |
79thPA | 05 Jul 2015 5:23 p.m. PST |
The most formative for me are 1/72 plastic Napoleonics (probably Airfix), 25mm Ral Partha (and Minifig)colonials, 15mm Confederettes, 15mm Napoleonettes, 15mm Panzertroops, and 25mm Spencer Smith SYW. |
Pictors Studio | 05 Jul 2015 9:05 p.m. PST |
1. Perry: Carlist War 2. Foundry: World of the Greeks 3. Foundry: Caesarian Romans 4. Games Workshop: Chaos Space Marines 5. Corvus Belli: Infinity 6. Uprising Miniatures: Kosciuszko Uprising 7. Games Workshop: Warmaster Orcs 8. Perry Miniatures: Sudan 9. Games Workshop: Tau 10: Games Workshop: Ogre Kingdoms These are all ranges that I've either started playing simply because I liked the models or I made myself with the exception of the Perry Sudan stuff, which I would have gamed anyway. I did game it prior to the Perry stuff coming out but sold all of my old stuff and just used Perry figures for my new armies. |
TiberiusAugustus | 06 Jul 2015 4:42 a.m. PST |
Legio Heroica Crusaders/Muslims. By far my favorite range out there. |
Skeets | 06 Jul 2015 4:46 a.m. PST |
Elite Miniatures, my favorite for Napoleonics. Pulp, my favorite for Yanks on the Yangtze the since the demise of Cannon Fodder. |
Buckeye AKA Darryl | 06 Jul 2015 5:13 a.m. PST |
1. Heritage/Empire 15mm American Civil War 2. Ral Partha 25mm colonials 3. 15mm RAFM Striker/Traveller 4. 20mm Frying Pan & Blanket Wayne's Legion 5. 25mm Old Glory Wayne's Legion 6. Heritage Empire 15mm Napoleonics 7. Wings of War/Glory World War I 8. GZG 15mm Sci Fi |
Codsticker | 06 Jul 2015 7:33 a.m. PST |
In no particular order… Artizan Designs, Andalusians Warlord Games, ECW Games Workshop, 3rd edition Stormtroopers Corvus Bellis, Haqqislam Indus Miniatures, War in India Games Workshop, all their plastic LoTR kits Musketeer Miniatures, medieval Muslims |
Flashman14 | 06 Jul 2015 7:58 a.m. PST |
15mm Old Glory American Civil War 15mm Old Glory Napoleonics 15mm Blue Moon Pirates 15mm Blue Moon Old West 25mm West Wind Gothic Horror/Empire of the Dead and all the little subdivisions within each. 28mm Perry 1812 Russian Retreat 28mm Blue Moon – all their little Horror ranges, zombies, etc. 25mm Goblin Factory Goblins 25mm Eureka Pax Limpopo 28mm Miscellaneous Paul Hicks Napoleonics – Westphalia?, Murawski, Brigade. And for good measure 25mm Ghost Miniatures Dwarves |
mashrewba | 06 Jul 2015 10:03 a.m. PST |
That 28mm Spanish Civil War stuff that Empress sell is going to be top of my list with loads of Foundry stuff. |
Fat Wally | 06 Jul 2015 11:07 a.m. PST |
18mm AB Napoleonics 18mm AB ACW 15mm Peter Pig AWI 15mm Peter Pig ECW 15mm Venexia Italian Wars 15mm Peter Pig Wars of the Roses 18mm Eureka SYW French 18mm Eureka SYW Austrians 15mm Old Glory SYW 15mm Old Glory ACW |
etotheipi | 06 Jul 2015 11:18 a.m. PST |
1/2. Bob Murch's Pulp Figures (esp colonials) and Forrest Harris' Knuckleduster Miniatures (esp 1812 militias) 3. Ollie's Armies Victorian Scrunts 4. Old Glory Cossacks 5. Wargames Foundry Post Apocalyptics 6. Wargames Factory Numidians and Zulus 7. Hero/Horror/Yugioh Clix … lovely civilians and conversion fodder 8. Discount toys 9. My own crappy sculpts 10. Any GW stuff someone is selling off for <$1 a figure; lots of "borken" lots! |
Dean AKI | 06 Jul 2015 3:01 p.m. PST |
Not much love for the sub-15mm; a little surprised… |
FusilierDan | 06 Jul 2015 5:58 p.m. PST |
1. Perry AWI 2. FreiKorps 15 19th Century Europe 3. Ral Partha Colonials 4. Spencer Smith Little Britons 5. Freikorps 15 Elizabethans 6. HPC Spanish Civil War 7. FootSore Skraelings 8. Footsore Irish War of Independence 9. Copplestone Gangsters 10. Front Rank AWI |
RABeery | 07 Jul 2015 10:31 a.m. PST |
I'm basing my choices at the time the figures were released, not as of today. In the order of their release date, or as close as I can guess. Der Kriegspielers Middle Earth " " Ancient Greeks Quality Castings 15mm WW2 Armor Grenadier/Copplestone Fighting Men Foundry Napoleonic Prussians Crusader Spanish/El Cid Medievals Perry War of the Roses plastics Perry Napoleonic Pussians, metals Conquest Games Norman plastics Tamiya 1/48 scale WW2 All are 25/28mm except where noted. |
Great War Ace | 08 Jul 2015 5:17 p.m. PST |
Citadel medieval true 25s Old Glory medieval 25s Ral Partha medieval true 25s Garrison Greenwood Ball medieval 25s Miniature Figurines medieval 25s I don't remember who made the fantasy figures I liked, but Julie Guthrie was the bomb!… |
Ottoathome | 09 Jul 2015 10:23 a.m. PST |
Surens (Willies) 30mm Stadden 30mm |
B6GOBOS | 09 Jul 2015 3:33 p.m. PST |
1. Fife and Drum miniatures AWI 2. War game Foundry Crimean war 3. Wings of War/wings of glory planes 4. Edward Suren "Wille" figures 5. Frying pan and blanket miniatures |
christot | 14 Jul 2015 2:23 a.m. PST |
I find it extraordinary that no-one mentions AB 20mm WWII Possibly the best wargames figures ever created. |
yarkshire gamer | 14 Jul 2015 9:42 a.m. PST |
Nice question, 1. Empress Spanish Civil War 28mm 2. Westwind Empire of the Dead 28mm 3. AB 18mm Napoleonics 4. GHQ 1/2400 WW1 Naval 5. Perrys 28mm AWI 6. Perrys 28mm WW2 Desert 7. Gripping Beast 28mm WW1 in the East 8. 15mm Xyston Ancients 9. 28mm Blitzkrieg Tanks WW2 10. 7TV 28mm Pulp figures Regards, Ken yarkshiregamer.blogspot.co.uk |
Gennorm | 16 Jul 2015 8:10 a.m. PST |
As I think of them: 1st Corps MAW Donnington TYW Skytrex 15mm Post War Baccus GNW Magister Militim 10mm Biblical Peter Pig WW1 Black Tree WW2 Pendraken League of Augsburg Empress Modern Adler WW2 |
vonLoudon | 29 Jul 2015 2:29 p.m. PST |
Have Owned: Minifig Napoleonics 25 Minifig Seven Years War 25 Minifig American Revolution 25 Minifig 15mm strip ACW Minifig 15mm Tricorn Foundry Franco-Prussian Foundry AWI Old Glory Renaissance Front Rank Napoleonic Front Rank AWI |