Posts tagged Miniatures
Ral Partha Dark Sun Mini Names: For the Record…
Back in the 90’s, and I’m sure even now, miniatures where often based on preexisting art, and in some cases there needed to be some liberty in defining what the mini was supposed to be based on the art. However, being what I would deem a “Dark Sun art historian” there are some legacy Dark Sun minis that were identified as one thing and the art showed the subject to clearly be something different. It has always struck me rather odd that the mini descriptions would miss the mark by such a large margin. So let’s look at the 4 minis that were named/packaged incorrectly in a post 18 years too late. (more…)
Displaying Fate
Fate, they say, always finds its way… and one should embrace it when it arrives. I have a few minis of interest that I display and I keep them in the package. However, when I purchased a Dark Sun cliff glider the package appeared to have been exposed to unsavory conditions which caused the plastic of the package to take on a deep golden hue and at the same time become extremely brittle. So upon arrival of the cliff glider, the pieces had been liberated from the package (luckily in such a way that the plastic was for the most part intact). (more…)