Reply To: What is the story of your first figure Mithril?

I remember back in the 90’s, maybe 1994 or so…. going to my RPG shop and seeing a whole wall filled with miniatures with a map of Middle Earth on it, getting a closer look , for the first time, I saw the world of Tolkien, which I really loved, come to life in small metal figurines before me… That was an illumination. I had discovered the world of JRRT some year just before and I was very fond of this heroic fantasy stuff. I was with my mother by that time, also a Tolkien and Fantasy fan in general. we bought some mithril figurines among others… (i still have some of those “others” star wars or very raw and bad looking figs) but soon, I enjoyed quite much the precision and quality of mithril so I remained faithfull to Mithril.
My first purchases (I could not afford all of them indeed) were in the “Misty Mountains” series, something around M300 or so. If I remember well, my first figurine painted is the Hithaeglir Adventurer (M305)… I have never “repainted” it since that time, it’s a memory… but you can imagine how “bad” this figurine can be painted… I never repaint my figurines… this way I can witness the progression in the techniques and quality of my works, even if it means that quite a lot of my figs are not “so well” painted…