Hobby Products GmbH was a German company that produced games and miniatures, and Metal Magic was the imprint used for their miniature lines. They produced a wide variety of ranges over the years, many of which had little visibility outside of Europe. Most of their ranges had been phased out of production by the mid-1990's. As a consequence - this chappie is a bit of a rarity. He is a wonderful sculpt, and looks like he was deliberately modelled on the black and white line drawings from the Monster Manual 1e - check out the line drawing below. He was also a pleasure to paint - base coat of gray, light sand for the loincloth and brown for the leather, then Army Painter Dark Tone, followed by dry brushing with gray and then white on the club. The white eyes were picked out simply to give focus to the face. It is a terrific figure, elegant, brooding, and I find it amazing that a company capable of such great sculpts could go under. This figure is definitely going to see a lot of table time!
Great figure!
ReplyDeleteI know! They are fabulous sculpts - I am fairly sure I have got some others lurking at the bottom of the Lead Mountain, so I'll post them as and when they are extracted.
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ReplyDeleteVintage feelings of my first AD&D module : Against the Giants :-)
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