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Hi,

Please could you recomend places to get really nice/interesting miniatures from places other then GW (nothing wrong with em, just fancy a change). I'm not after specific types just interesting things to paint and look at, like sinister monsters, rat ogres, etc. Things that lend themselves to a more gritty, dark painting style. I've been looking for places but not really found anything great.

So yeah any help will be appreciated.


Cheers

Steve

http://www.avatars-of-war.com/eng/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14&Itemid=28

These guys do leaders and heroes that are essentially aimed tongue-in-cheek at WHFB. As you would expect they are very individualistic.

Cool, theres some really cool ones there. cheers for link.

keep em comming

http://www.maelstromgames.co.uk/ has models from other ranges, as well as a 10-15% discount.

http://www.giftsforgeeks.org.uk/ also offer many model ranges and a discount.

http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/ See above.

http://www.darksphere.co.uk/ See above.

http://www.arcaneminiatures.co.uk/ Pretty much every model range in the universe apparently.

http://www.darkartstore.darkartminiatures.com/categories/BRUTAL-/True-Human-Gladiators/ - gladiator models as well as resin bases.

Also check out the Coolminiornot Web Store, they have lots of really awesome lesser known models on there.

My two favourite places for minis are:

http://www.hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk/index.php (Where all the stuff in my gallery is from)

http://www.reapermini.com/ (Where all the stuff that isn't in my gallery yet is from)

Not so much gritty/dark per se, but they definitely cover the "nice/interesting" criteria.

Awesome, thanks for all the links. Plenty to be looking at there.


cheers.

Also try this one:

http://www.freebooterminiatures.de/

Some very nice minis there. Other than that I second the recommendations of Hasslefree minis and Reaper minis.

Once you start looking, it is amazing how many great miniature companies there are. So many options and great ideas floating around out there. Many people just stay with Warmachine or GW minis because they play the games and don't concern themselves with painting minis that will not be used in games/tourneys. However, if you want to paint interesting minis, there are tons of great companies out there.

Add: check out these smaller sites also-

http://web.sodapopminiatures.com/

http://zenitminiatures.com/shop/index.php?osCsid=6face829aec29430166cdbede7ca9cd7

http://www.runicminiatures.dk/

http://www.kingdomdeath.com/#557502/Pinup-Forsaker

http://wyrd-games.net/shop/home.php

Urban Mammoth - sci fi minis with a very 40k like theme (arbites, tyranids, ogryn)
http://www.urbanmammoth.com/acatalog/

What the ?! minatures - Weird WW2 store has some interesting commissar minis
http://whattheminiatures.com/

Aberrant Games - Future cyberpunk (Rezolution)
http://store.aberrantgames.com/

Rattleheadgames - A very annoying website that has tons of minis
http://www.rattleheadgames.com/

Pig iron - every one knows pig iron
http://www.pig-iron-productions.com/

Also try:

http://www.ironcladminiatures.co.uk/

http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/range.php?range=HA

http://www.heresyminiatures.com/

And my favourite of all.

www.google.co.uk

Safe, thanks for all the links. Much appreciated.