Latest mini received

[revford]

10 Ridged Aliens from the Space Vixens from Mars Rim Aliens range.

The beginnings of a Trek-ish project.

[manic _miner]

Any luck with Adster?

 The three mention were from Adster.Thanks for the help with them Seb.

 Got two old Slann miniatures today along with an old Lizardman.

[Lowtardog]

Quar Kryster Squad and Comand

[TheMightyFlip]

One of Akula's infiltrators

[manic _miner]

One of Akula's infiltrators

 I got three of them too  .

[Svennn]

30 very old Dixon Chinese from evilbay for £3.50 - impulse purchase of some very dated looking minis.

If anybody has an early catalogue with codes DM45-47 I would be interested to see what they were actually listed as.

[Dan]

From Foundry a couple of packets of Medieval peasents, bowmen, Deer Hunt and Stone thrower. Some of the Figures have really bulky arms and will need filling down and others look really good so am not sure whats going on there 
I also received a Packet of English Swashbucklers which are my favorite range plus some Victorian Tarts which should fit in a few eras.
Not sure I will be getting much more from them as I think they should lower their prices to suit the lower sculpting standards.

[revford]

Busy week of new things for me, ten of the Mantic Wraiths, the plastic-resin type.  I was a bit worried about the material but it's nice, stronger than thin resin casts but slightly softer in detail than metal or plastic.

[TheMightyFlip]

6 Citadel Ninja's

[Lowtardog]

6 Citadel Ninja's

Swine 

[Commander Vyper]

I was looking at my four the other night, red black and white are the potential colour choices, something else to sit in a ziploc bag for a while!

[manic _miner]

 Four more Chainmail miniatures arrived today.Set one nearly complete.

[maxxev]

For unknown reasons, I spent a moment doing detective work concerning this Blue Ice / Dark Sphere stuff.

Looks like the halflings were either sculpted or at least produced by Louis Simpson, also known as Rainbowdodge on eBay. He had a web shop called Wargames Dungeon, and he used that as a nickname on Da Warpath forums in 2004. The halfling masters were finished in February 2004, painted and ready for selling through his store. Then he had some trouble, whereafter both the eBay and WargamesDungeon activities ceased. The domain was caught by a squatter in 2005 or so, and expired entirely in 2006.

Busy fellow, if he really managed to do that all already before reaching his twenties.

I don't know why the "Blue Ice Miniatures" name was scrapped. Maxxev bought a lot of that stuff and uses a name "Blue Ice Games" instead.

Apparently Louis launched Dark Sphere Games in 2005. It didn't last long either.

Sylvain Quirion sculpted a treeman for Dark Sphere. It's now available on Impact Miniatures.

A few Dark Sphere minis are available on Tritex Games with a description "from a new and innovative range introduced by David Gaskin".

Some traces of this all can be found here

And still I have no idea, who currently owns those halflings.

Just came across this thread on a random Google search.

I own the rights to those halflings, and they are by far the best of the sculpts in the range.

However I have no money whatsoever to produce them and the caster that had all my molds, had a heart attack and threw everything away after trying to get into contact with me (apparently, even though he definitely had my email address which I haven't changed in 15 years).

All in all I spent a LOT of money on blue ice and have never got anywhere near recouping it something like 10 years later.

If I Louis had actually shown me pictures of the entire range, instead of just sending a few photos of the best figures, I would never had parted with the amount of money he was asking for.

Frankly purchasing Blue Ice was the worst mistake of my life, it was meant to be a step in the direction of working for myself in a field that I loved, instead the financial investment I put into Blue ice could have bought me, probably about 30 nice sculpts from Kev White or someone similar which would have been a far better business model.

[TheMightyFlip]

Swine 

I miscounted, there are actually 7. 

[Lowtardog]

I miscounted, there are actually 7. 

Bastard