lord_blackfang wrote:I've never heard of any of those companies.
Well, I suppose that is kinda the point.
Many of these companies have been around for several years. They produce display quality miniatures however, not gaming miniatures. This is perhaps why you may not of heard of them.
They produce some awesome minis.
Scale75 is currently Kickstarting Fallen Frontiers
Painting Buddha offers painting tutorials
Bigchild Creatives is funing a
KS with Orc pirates! They are also the studio behind Coolmini`s latest
KS Rum & Bones
Nocturna has some truly beautiful sculpts
Nuts Planet has been doing a lot of game of thrones busts
Origen has some incredible minis
FeR has just launched, offering more historical oriented products
Ares I dont have much experience with, but they do some nice pieces as well
[url=https://www.facebook.com/FigurePainterMagazineFigure Painter magazine is a great page to follow on
FB[/url]¸they feature and share tones of awesome paint jobs, conversions and so on, both gaming and collectors
BeesPutty is a sculpting material, much like sculpey