Star Wars Miniatures - Archive Style...

 

An excellent blog post over on the Star Wars Collectors Archive by Ron Salvatore and Yehuda Kleinman.

http://blog.theswca.com/2022/03/adventures-in-miniature-nevile-stockens.html

I blogged about these some time back but this article takes it to the next level and is well worth reading. My posts are here. Take note of the historical miniatures in one of the pics - Byzantine light cavalry, Huns, a Musketeer and a mailed cavalryman. I would love to find some more information on those as there is nothing out there that I have found as yet. Going off the scale by Nevile's eyes I don't think some are the 15mm Dark Ages range. A poor listing (here) on the WIKI seems very limited... I do have a few of the Ancients range and will eventually open the baggies and get them posted... for now though, we shall make do with what must be the 079 Sudanese Elephant with 3-man crew although the insert card is numbered 100. 

Nevile's customary signature...

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Archive Miniatures 15mm Napoleonics ... a selection arrived...

Previous post about a sampler pack here however I was fortunate enough to trade for a few packs from the States along with a gold plated Ral Partha wizard... more of that another time. 

Nevile Stocken, designer and CEO of Archive Miniatures stated;

"The other Spanish guerillas I made included a curvaceous Carmen-like fig with a hair-comb and mantilla holding a dagger behind her back, a Priest in a wide-brimmed hat charging with a rifle held aloft, and a nun throwing a bomb. People either loved them for their character, or hated them because they did not fit well with the dominant 15 mm Napoleonic figs of the time (Napoleoniques). All of them looked like Napoleonic Hobbits. I sculpted about a hundred of these little fellows over the course of two months. The Dark Ages line never happened, other than a rather burly Norman knight on horseback. Archive closed its doors before the line could be developed fully"

More info from him re the sampler pack on the aforementioned post above.

On to the pics... once again I have little to no idea what they represent (I've added the pack codes though) but that has never stopped me collecting old lead before... gotta love Nevile's style. Archive were mainly a fantasy / sci fi company and there are a lot more posts here.

1014

This general type was included with 5 of the above. I assume a packaging error... 

1015

1016

1017

1018

1020

1021

1022

1023

A Dragon magazine ad from the later 70's I think...

Card insert in the baggies... all used the same card with just the coding changed...

Well, if you have any further info (or examples to sell/trade) please give me a shout on;'

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Archive Miniatures' Bianca Snow & the Space Dwarves

Well, back to the 70's before we hit 2018. I've had these Archive Miniatures beauties for many years but have had problems due to my usual procrastination and also knowing which figures actually made up the group as different sources seemed to tend towards different robots.......anyway, with the help of Nevile Stocken and a couple of old bagged sets I finally present the painted group......Nevile sculpted Bianca and I believe the robot cook, the sadly late Steven Lortz the dwarves...

2015 Bianca Snow and the Star Dwarves

Bianca Snow herself, modelled on Patty Hearst of the Symbionese Liberation Army

Neddy Thumpo

Lon Gone Jones

Tool-Hand Zuka

Robot Cook, RVS6

Mad Dog MacEnstock

Dr. Kroch

Captain Eyre

Bagged set....

Close up.....

Pictures c/o Johnny Lauck from when they were re-released on a limited run a while back....

For some time I thought that Servodroid, RT22 "Hardy TootToot" was part of the group....

Servodroid, RT22 "Hardy TootToot"

They all came in a other sets as well......

2016 Space Dwarf Personalities

2017 Space Dwarf Pirates

2018 Space Heroines

2011 Robot Group

 All produced along with the rest of the range for the Star Rovers game...

Lots more info on the game on RPG Geek here.

More posts on Archive miniatures here (including the limited run Star Wars ranges.....) and, of course, pics and details of the rest of the miniatures on the Lost Minis WIKI here.

Happy New Year!

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