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I have been looking for alternatives to The Miniatures Page, which has been a difficult venue for me in the past (although I imagine I will need it to advertise miniatures I am making).
Been involved in gaming a long time. Since the mid-70's in my teens. I was the first person to ever run an OGRE miniatures event at a convention (DALCON 1979 or '80 - it was the year that Martian Metals came out with the OGRE Miniatures), and was involved with GW and Citadel briefly in the early 1980's (I still own a couple of licenses from the early Citadel miniatures line - pre-WH - that I hope to eventually get back in production. Mostly a few Dragons, including the Citadel Imperial Dragon from 1982-84).
Dropped out of gaming during the 90's due to being distracted by an evil wife who .... Well... She was evil.
Been back into gaming since 2003, but mostly just 15mm historicals, and a few 6mm Sci-Fi things. I did WH40K epic for a while, but after beginning playing Napoleonics in '05, I discovered that Epic 40K is nothing more than 6mm Napoleonics with a few bells and whistles (and more effective artillery).
In 2006, I went back to school to study Cognitive Science and Cybernetics at UCLA, but it has taken me a while due to medical problems associated with the divorce and separation from the evil wife. Did I mention that I am actually widowed?
But.... Looking for others into miniatures, and trying to get a few miniature lines produced, picking up where I left off in 1989 in that respect, in order to help pay for my last year and a half of school, before I start Grad School....
But, aside from things listed in my Profile.
I like Field of Glory (for which we have developed a Fantasy Version for use with games for Middle-earth or Hyboria/Conan), and a DBx variant by the name of Hoplon (which is essentially a cross between DBM and FoG - only it was published about four or five years prior to FoG).
I also am a big fan of Striker and Striker II, both games by the now defunct GDW. They are based upon the Sci-Fi RPG Traveller. I find it to give the best platoon to battalion level gameplay of anything I have ever played. It can be confusing for new players, though, because the game is centered around the premise that you are the CO of a force, and thus you find that you cannot always get your miniatures to do exactly what you want (the games involve orders you give that dictate possible actions and reactions, as well as goals). It is sort of like a cross between a miniatures game and an RPG, where you play the role of the CO, and your troops are all NPCs.
I will start another thread in the appropriate forums for the miniatures I am working on. They are Fantasy and Sci-Fi, with a focus on more "hard" Sci-Fi or Fantasy that is more "realistic" than the flamboyant styles of GW, or Necromunda. The Fantasy are intended to be an extension of Tom Meier's Thunderbolt Mountain Miniatures and the old Ral Partha Fantasy Collector's Series that Tom did in the late-70's/early-80's.
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