Model Forum / General / Models / July 2007

I wonder how much the metal figures owe to:
1. The old tin solders of childhood memory. About the only company who
broke that tradition in larger scales was Historex, and that's because  
it knew that French figure collectors wanted to do dioramas of Waterloo
with  all the armies represented without going bankrupt....and with
Napoleon winning, of course.
2. The fact that for wargames, their weight made them less likely to
shift on the game board. Most plastic chess pieces had weighted bases.
As far as detail goes, I had a several sets of Atlantic HO scale
polyethylene Union troops that I used on the model shown here:
http://www.geocities.com/hodag_/FtSewardMuseum.html
(that's not me by the model; my name is Patrick, not Patricia)
And on those figures the level of detail was so high that the tiny "US"
was visible on the belt buckles.

And "So we're upping the price ten dollars to prove it, even though the
pilot figure set us back around ten cents as it was made in China. In
fact, the whole damn model cost around a dollar to make, and even at
that the Chinese are taking us to the cleaners, as is their wont." :-D

Pat