Which are your all-time favorite sets of minis?

[ErikB]

You wont believe this, but...

What's not to believe?  It's an incredible mini, holding up a lot of mass with what appears to be ghostly cloth or smoke blowing in the wind.  Pretty cool.

What throws me off a little bit is that the cloth, fire, and smoke don't all appear (to me) to be moving the same.

Still, incredible "miniature."

[Pijlie]

I am drawn between just about anything from Pulp Figures and Bronze Age Miniatures' not-Barsoomians.

[Elk101]

The Artizan Pulp figures are a firm favourite too, as are their Old West stuff.

[ErikB]

I am drawn between just about anything from Pulp Figures and Bronze Age Miniatures' not-Barsoomians.

I like their Amazons and undead Hoplites, too.

[Belligerentparrot]

Games Workshop's original Confrontation line. I love it to bits.

As for individual minis, I'd have to say John Blanche's 40k conversions are just stunning.

[Sir_Theo]

Mark Copplestones 28mm Barbarians for Grenadier.

[The Dozing Dragon]

Mine are either the old Citadel Fantasy Tribe lines or the Dragontooth Personality packs. Still missing 4 from the line but I live in hope 

[harleyface]

Battletech unseens...first contact ever with metal minis
Warhammer Undead 90s learned how to paint
Incursion.  Best style ever for me
Statuesque pulp alley best example for modern minis
Uncle Mike Strange Aeons. Best example that a mini must not be perfect to be full of life

My personal top 5

[MartinR]

Anything Airfix as that is what I started with. If forced to pick a particular set, then for various criteria:

Goofy poses: British Commandos. How many guys carrying canoes do you need?
Classic nostalgia: original German infantry set, particularly the poor panzerfaust figure who everyone thought was the loader for the panzerschreck.
Nice figures: second edition Afrika Korps set. Lovely figures.

[Codsticker]

Hmmm....
GW's plastic Cadians (my first real war gaming army).
Indus Miniatures War in India range (probably because it is so unique... and the sculpting is very nice).
Footsore Miniatures Irish, Romano-Britons and their Armies of The Caliphates (especially the Ghulams).
Artizan Miniatures Andalusians (I liked painting them so much).

[LeadAsbestos]

1999, by Cell Entertainment. I've been hunting them for years. Wonderful stuff!
http://displacedminiatures.com/LeadAsbestos2010/gallery/3154/
http://displacedminiatures.com/LeadAsbestos/gallery/354/
http://displacedminiatures.com/LeadAsbestos/gallery/1581/
http://displacedminiatures.com/LeadAsbestos/gallery/355/

And China Town, by Stone Circle Games
http://displacedminiatures.com/LeadAsbestos2010/gallery/3024/

[Bloggard]

Mine are either the old Citadel Fantasy Tribe lines or the Dragontooth Personality packs. Still missing 4 from the line but I live in hope  

might be rose-tinted, but I don't think the original citadel fantasy tribe minis have ever been bested in that area.

I had a bunch of the dwarves (when you could still buy fantasy dwarves that had legs) painted up for a demo game at the original (pre-Ansell) gamesday in London ...  long, long time ago.

I guess my faves overall remain the deeply untrendy Peter Gilder figures of Hinchliffe's glory yrs and then his own Connoisseur Miniatures - particularly the latter.
They had an impressionistic quality by modern standards, and were dynamically animated. And sympathetically painted they still do it for me.

There was a late Feathertone 'overview' book on the hobby I remember, the cover for which was the most extraordinary Gilder'ised Italian wars set-up (diorama really).
The charging Gendarmes having a sense of motion and drama that you just don't get with later sculpting styles.

[horridperson]

This almost feels like an impossible question.  I appreciate new miniatures and releases will always grab my attention but there is still a residual attraction to the forms of the miniatures I grew up with.  I have a terrible toy soldier problem but hand sculpted model with slight exaggeration of features are a joy to paint.  Elk101 mentioned Artizan sculpts and I'd also like to add to that the Brigade Old Wests that try to match them.  The North Star figures have a lot of the same charm and I would be really happy to find a time machine a repaint the Grenadier fantasy models I had a kid.

[Rivera]

Don't know if they qualify as a set but this pair are extremely nice sculpts by one of the members of this forum I believe.

I give you Miri and Samanda.



More please Andrew!

[ErikB]

Interesting to see that people's favorites are often selected due to sentimental value as opposed to necessarily being excellent quality sculpts.