I recently discovered some old figures while doing some reorganizing, and decided to re-base them and put them back onto the game table!
![Oldies Oldies](showcase/scfshowcase/2019/633022a.jpg)
Some of you will remember that, many years ago, I used to write a lot of articles for a magazine called The Space Gamer. In fact, I wrote for them so much that one of the staff joked they should rename the magazine, Armintrout Gamer!
![Survivors Survivors](showcase/scfshowcase/2019/633022c.jpg)
Some of the gaming companies starting sending me their products directly so that I would write reviews for the magazine. (I suppose someone at the magazine sent them my address, as it skipped a step in the process.) That's how I became a miniatures reviewer, receiving samples from the big companies of the day.
![Mutants Mutants](showcase/scfshowcase/2019/633022d.jpg)
One of my rules was that I wouldn't review a mini that I hadn't seen painted up. This raised a problem, since way back then, I was a terrible painter! So I made a deal with my friend Brent, who painted all the minis, I wrote the reviews, and then we split the minis between us (and used them at the game club).
![Survivors Survivors](showcase/scfshowcase/2019/633022f.jpg)
So these are some of those miniatures, painted by Brent, which I've re-based and touched up a little. In case you were wondering, the 'new technique' back then was to paint the eyes white, then poke them with something sharp to create an eye!
![Soldiers Soldiers](showcase/scfshowcase/2019/633022e.jpg)
These soldiers have done a lot of fighting! One of the guns is missing part of the barrel, and another gun is only held together by old paint! I think they need more touch-ups…
![Alien Alien](showcase/scfshowcase/2019/633022b.jpg)
This blue alien is the only figure in this group that I painted myself, and it was something of a milestone in my improving early efforts at painting. The large eye looked good once upon a time, but has clouded up over time – paints don't always age well.