"Manufacturer you miss the most?" Topic

Over the decades, hobby companies come and go. Which now-defunct company do you miss the most?

Bugle & Guidon 30mm figures

Mikes models. Gnomish , but paint up well.

Heritage 25mm LOTR

Frontier made some interesting things.

Minifigs "S" range too

Dark Horse Designs.

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They are probably best known for their stuff related to Groo and other comics, but they also made European medieval figures with excellent detail and expressive faces. I wish that I had bought a few more back in the 1980s!

Floquil, especially their Figure Primers.

Martian Metals.

Frontier "True 25mm".

Polly S paints.

Firing Line AWI.

+1 PVT641

Snapdragon Studios

Heritage or whoever made Napoleonettes – true 15mm Nappies.

Gallia used to make some nice pieces too.

There was a company in Ireland in the 80s that did Anerican Revolution in 15mm among other things. They were panned early on for having very stiff and brittle miniatures but that was later corrected.

Avalon Hill

Judges Guild

Mikes Models, SPI, Polly S Paints (good catch, Winston, they were a great line of paints), Frontier, Leading Edge Games, Avalon Hill.

Flashman, are you thinking of Freikorps? They're still available from QRF Miniatures.

Gallia, or at least some of it, is available from Warrior Miniatures.

Frontier

Peter Laing

TCS (TSC?) The resin terrain line, anyway.

Second the nominations of Polly S Paints, Heritage, Frontier and Mike's Models.

Game Designers Workshop and West End Games.

Twenty First Century Games, an Italian company that made excellent 25mm card terrain kits.

For those of you who miss the excellent LOTR range by Heritage, they might still be available. Contact Michael Thomas at Classic Miniatures classicminiatures.net and see what he can do. About 5+ years ago I bought bucket loads of those minis from him. He's a very nice guy. Hope this helps.

I'll join those who miss the Polly S line of paints. They were wonderful.

I love my Heritage 15mm Napoleonics

+ 1 on Floquil/Poly-S
&
+ 1 on Heritage

Essex still sell Mike's Models' Renaissance range.

Be nice to see Falcon again, back from limbo.

Frontier

Ral Partha, Stone Mountain and Judges Guild.

Snapdragon Studio

"There was a company in Ireland in the 80s that did Anerican Revolution in 15mm among other things. They were panned early on for having very stiff and brittle miniatures but that was later corrected."
Sounds like that was FreiKorps 15, based in Bangor, Co. Down (my first metals in the late 90s were some of their SYW range). I believe all their stuff is still available through QRF.
quickreactionforce.co.uk
I think the brittleness issue (which I certainly observed with those first figures) has been remedied long since.

Peter Laing

+1 for Jim Duncan. Who owns the moulds? Perhaps they are lost to time.

Heritage (15mm Napoleonics)
Ral Partha (25mm everything)
Martian Metals
FASA

Educator (Beer Chaser crackers, better than pretzels to accompany light gaming!)

Parroom Station

Lamming

Gedemco resin. Nice triremes.

Quartermaster/Falcon Figures Three Kingdom Korean line.

Der Kriegspielers dwarves.

@Kropotkin303

Best of luck.

TMP link

Frontier's true 25s.

Rob

Another vote for Peter Laing!

Another vote for Frontier true 25s. Ral Partha 25s are still available but at a pretty steep price.

GFI, specifically the Armies In Miniature 10mm line.

Armory Paint; Polly-S; Pactra; Garrison Historical

As a kid I used to love to read and reread the Peter Laing listings in Wargames Digest. Always set my imagination in motion. There was just so much stuff.

T-Rex, Martian Metals, Parroon Station, BP Casts and Polly S
paints.

Architects of War – I have a couple of their buildings (church and barn) and a well. Very nice stuff. I wish I had purchased more.

Polly S Paints, especially their amazing fantasy range
Ral Partha Paints, especially their metallics

Tactical Conflict Systems – Made some great pre-painted terrain

JR Miniatures – Really nice buildings and other terrain bits.

Redoubt Miniatures USA – When they had some very nice 28mm+ colonial figures.

Heritage and whatever they morphed into.

Scenic Effects – Great buildings. I have their 15mm Plancenoit and Hugomont sets. I also have their 15mm Great Redoubt. I know someone else carried them for a while but I haven't seen anything new lately. Please come back!

Board Games:

Avalon Hill
Victory Games
GDW

Not as concern about this. There are some great manufactures making some great games today. They are calling it the 2nd golden age of military history board gaming. There are just about as many board games available as there were back in the 70s. Its pretty amazing. Never thought it would happen again.

Another for Frontier

GDW

Mike's Models
Polly S
Floquil Primer