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I like Mithril because of those miniatures gives me free opportunity to imagine how could be Tolkien world of middle earth. I collect them since 1999 when I was discovered them accidentally in one shop in Zagreb ( Croatia ). I did not buy than none of them because of I was in the army than. Few month later friend of mine has come to me with proposal that we change model of German fighter ME262 1:48 Monogram scale for 7 Mithril miniatures. When I saw those miniatures ( M147, 146, 124, 125, 132, 318 & 350 ) I was found my intent to collect as possible number of Mithril miniatures to complete my collection. It was love at second sight. Till today I have 472 from M range, and all LR & LT range. I’m not sure is it still someone in Republic of Croatia who collect Mithril. I was try to find someone through some contacts, Croatien Tolkien societies, various forums but no results. Pity. In fact before I was doing lots of WW2 dioramas and won lots of medals in different competitions, but today I’m concentrate only for Mithril and 54mm of old history soldiers, knights etc…. In Croatia it was not able to buy any pieces of Mithril, except via the Internet, so collecting this collection was quite difficult for me. Especially because it was not a single shop in the country who decided to fill part deals with the MERP program. Only one man bought a part of the MC series and presented his shop to modellers (written above). It is the curse of the small Balkan states :rolleyes: