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Grenadier Models Inc. of Springfield, Pennsylvania produced lead miniature figures for wargames and role-playing games with fantasy, science fiction and heroic themes between 1975 and 1996. Grenadier Models Inc. is best known for their figures for TSR, Inc.'s Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game, collectible Dragon-of-the-Month and Giants Club figures, and their marketing of paint and miniature sets through traditional retail outlets.
Formed in 1975, Ral Partha Enterprises, Inc. of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, is now known as Ral Partha Legacy Ltd. and produces miniature figures in 25 mm, 30 mm, 15 mm, and 54 mm scale. The company's products are made by spin-casting metal alloys which depict soldiers, adventurers and creatures that have been inspired by history and fiction. Their miniatures are sold at gaming conventions, in hobby shops, and by internet and mail order for use in role playing games, wargaming, dioramas, competitive painting, and collecting.
Tom Meier is a sculptor, a founding partner of Ral Partha Enterprises, and the winner of numerous awards for the design and sculpture of historical, fantasy and science fiction gaming miniatures.
Starfleet Wars, a space battle game by Superior Models, Inc. featuring five races: Terrans, Entomalians, Avarians, Aquarians and Carnivorans. It was sold to Gamemasters in 1997, and then was off the market until Monday Knight Productions re-introduced it. Introduced in 1978 and designed by Wayne Smith and Ron Spicer, Starfleet Wars was a dice-rolling simultaneous-action spaceship war game with miniature lead figures.
Knights and Magick is a role-playing game published by Heritage USA in 1980.
Asgard Miniatures was a company that produced metal miniature figures beginning in the 1970s.
Dragonslayers is a line of miniatures published in 1980 by Martian Metals.
Martial Metals was a company that produced miniature figures in the 1970s and 1980s for science-fiction tabletop games.
Superheros and Supervillains is a set of miniatures published by Heritage Models.
Personalities and Things That Go Bump in the Night is a set of miniatures published by Ral Partha.
Traveller 15mm Miniatures is a line of miniatures produced by Citadel Miniatures for Traveller.
Space Opera Miniatures is a set of miniatures published by Fantasy Games Unlimited for Space Opera.
Personalities is a set of miniatures published by Ral Partha.
Fantasy Lords is a line of miniatures published by Grenadier subsidiary Pinnacle Products.
Call of Cthulhu Miniatures is a line of miniatures published by Grenadier Models.
The Outcasts is a set of miniatures published by RAFM Company.
Crimson Dragon Miniatures is a generic line of miniatures published by TAG Industries of Castalia, Ohio.
Essex Miniatures is a British company that produces miniature figures.
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures is a line of miniatures produced under license by a number of companies and published by TSR for use with the fantasy role-playing game Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D).
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