Wee Men Plastic Toy Soldiers

Fantasy figures in 1:72. These are made by Dark alliance/orion figures and depict fantasy dwarves with crossbows and muskets. I've added a leader figure for each group and a bare-chested berserker. These will be used for Hordes of the Things as shooters.

According to the earliest East Slavic record, the Primary Chronicle, the Rus' were a group of Varangians among others like Swedes and Gutes who lived on the other side of the Baltic Sea, in Scandinavia and as far as the land of the English and the French. The Varangians were first expelled, then invited to rule the warring Slavic and Finnic tribes of Novgorod. Later, the Primary Chronicle tells us, they conquered Kiev and created the state of Kievan Rus. The territory they conquered was named after them as were, eventually, the local people. -- Wikipedia I have seen the Rus as they came on their merchant journeys and encamped by the Itil. I have never seen more perfect physical specimens, tall as date palms, blond and ruddy; they wear neither tunics nor caftans, but the men wear a garment which covers one side of the body and leaves a hand free. Each man has an axe, a sword, and a knife, and keeps each by him at all times. The swords are broad and grooved, of...

Here are a few of my plastic goodies still in their boxes. I admit, I keep the boxes my toys come in, especially if the box art features illustration. I'm an illustrator and designer by profession and box art -- good, bad and anything inbetween -- catches my attention most of the time. Since there are only a few model shops where I live, I have to rely on pictures of the actual product ( For 1/72, the Plastic Soldier Review is a big help; For other scales, I'm not aware of a sole reseource for this thing and would rely on pics from collector pages if I'm lucky enough to find them) or make a decision based on the boxart they come packaged in when shopping online. The Miniart kits are in 1/72 and will make up my matched pair of Late Roman armies -- the Romans themselves as well as the Germanic tribes that challenged them. The Orion box also contains 1/72 figures representing Early Rus warriors. This is the very first Orion kit I bought and I'll be opening thi...