Add to this another robot toy still in it's box and a couple of the new Ral Partha Automatons from their Savage World line. Then there is guy from Hydra Miniatures.
My name is Bill and I am a miniatures addict, my drug of choice is robots.
Since I was stuck at home recuperating from having my Gall Bladder removed (and it came out the hard way with lots of cutting) I decide to go through the mancave and see what I had. You know how it is you buy and paint, use a couple times and store away, and sometimes forget about some item. I found 32 robots and mechanical men. Whatever am I going to do with that many! Oh well I'll think of something. The Big Guys in the back are Iron Giant Toys I picked up on Fleabay very cheaply. There are a couple warjacks in front of them, along with an Iron Golem (Ral Partha I think) I attached smokestack to for use in VSF gaming and Bot from Supersystem, who I also rigged for VSF. In front of them are ten from some other Superhero miniasture company, sorry don't know the name on those. I paid full price for one at a CON and then found a dealer with a box full of them for $1 each. In the front row are (Left to right) two Type II robots from Rattrap, three Heroclix M-11 robots, and three others that I can't remember who made them. Add to this another robot toy still in it's box and a couple of the new Ral Partha Automatons from their Savage World line. Then there is guy from Hydra Miniatures. Sigh....
My name is Bill and I am a miniatures addict, my drug of choice is robots.
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I don't about you, but I admit to being a Wargame Scavenger. When it comes to miniatures I'll buy them even when I don't have a use for them. Recently, I picked up three packages of Dwarven Forge pre-painted skeletons, a Reaper Modern Adverturer pack (tools), a Reaper not-Charlie Chan, a SOTR Big Thug, and a Spinespur Aniel for a dollar a piece. Sure the tools will be of use sometime and a Big Thug is generally useful, but the rest I bought because they were cheap. I can't think of any use for the skeletons, the not-Charlie Chan would be somewhat usefull in a Pulp game (but people only armed with pistols really don't do so good), and I already had an Aniel (I'm going to greenstuff a hat on him and use him as a raygun armed hero).
Whenever I go into a gaming store I seek out the bargain bin/table/box to go through first. Most game stores have one, you know, the place where the bad purchases end up. Maybe they are miniatures from a game company that didn't make it (Vor), maybe the company lost the rights (Starship Trooper), maybe the game just wasn't successful in that shop (it takes a special kind of gamer to play Spinespur) or maybe the miniatures were deleted from the new edition of the game (GW). The store's loss is my gain and I love searching out such bargains. How about you? |
Mysterious BillI've been gaming since the 1970's and even wrote some RPG adventures in the 80's for the Judges Guild. It seems that I can only get in miniatures is gaming at cons, but I do regularly play boardgames and RPGs. Archives
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