who’s who on MMP

Hi and welcome Mornedhel !

It’s always great pleasure to meet mithril fans, especially since 1988.
I hope you’ll show a bit more of your collection here sometimes as it seems you can talk about uniques and unfindable more than I do.

For vide grenier, I myself more search in old forgotten attics

And please visit the Prancing pony to get a free drink and share your mithril passion around a beer.

Welcome from me too! (For the record, English for “brocante” is a second-hand shop or junk shop, and for “vide grenier” is a boot-sale or attic-sale – not exact translations, but close enough!) I’ll fill a mug for you at the Pony…

wrong thread, sorry.

Greetings
My names John and Im from the UK, about 35 miles south of London. I have a deep and abiding love of Middle Earth since I was a teenager in the 1970’s , over the years I have collected many Tolkien related items , particularly gaming items such as board games and RPG’s but especially miniatures. Although the Mithril range has always been my favourite I also collected all the other licensed miniatures as well as quite a few historical 25/28mm that would fit into the world of Middle Earth. I was a member here at one point too, although not very active , then for some reason my interest waned a few years ago and I concentrated on other lines of miniatures ie Colonial (you can never have enough Zulus) , Dr Who , a couple of races by GW (I have 2 boys) and especially Victorian Science Fiction.
Last year I bought a 50 yr old car (same age as me) and unfortunately he is at the moment in pieces being repaired, this is very expensive so i decided I needed to raise some cash by selling stuff on ebay, in particular my Middle Earth miniatures which I realised I could probably get a reasonable amount for (I think I have over 6000!).
However, much Im sure to your relief, as I got them out the boxes I realised I really didnt want to sell them, so for the time being I am only selling my doubles and even some of them I have put back away as I now want to start painting up a couple of armies!
Anyway I hope I havn’t bored you , but im glad to be back!
John

……6,000? Wow, I hope you have room enough to display them!

…. hmmmm… impressive quantity of metal…. maybe you could cast some spare parts for your 50 years old cars from this figures… just kidding… welcome here master Mors… I would like to see or know which figures are in this bunch of middle earth races… do you have some list or inventory….

Thanks for the welcome, the 6000 is a estimate and was a figure I had in my head from years ago. Its not 6000 Mithril sadly, I beleive I have about 1500-1800 from the Mithril range , after completing my M range collection I tended to focus on generic army figures so something like M198 I have 10 or 12 sets and the same goes for Orcs, Rangers etc from the later issues, I have 3 Army sets of each the Orcs and Gondor. the rest of my collection is made up from other manufactuers.
The original Citadel range I have at least one set of each, although not all the variants, I have 3 Encounter at Khazad Dum sets.I have a few of the very rare figures, ie the Troll and the Uruk Hai that were only for sale for a little time.
The Heritage range based on Bakshis cartoon is I suppose about 60 % complete, I have the two boxed sets of Paint and Play, I was also in contact with a guy that had the moulds years ago and bought all the diorama sets as well as the 75mm , although i have some of the originals too. I managed to pick up a very nice set of 12 done in the same style as Heritage, must have been the same sculptor, of 54mm ish figures which were only available on a American Express card offer, I paid a lot for them though.
The Grenadier range is complete, I have all the boxed sets.
The Harlequin/Icon/BTD range I have is complete , and because i bought boxed sets as well as blisters when they came out there are quite a few there. Not very nice figures as they are done in the Nottingham style of GW Warhammer, although some of the character pieces are ok
The new GW range I collected for a few years of all the new releases, but i think it was this that made me stop, I just couldnt justify the expense.
There are also figures which were not licensed form the 70’s , like the Minifigs Mythical Earth range and the Der Kriegspielers/Customcraft ranges from the USA

Barliman, sadly they all in boxes crates and have been kept in storage, now much to my wifes horror they are spread about the house!

Thingol unfortunately I have not got a up to date inventory but I intend to rectify that , I will be contacting the webmaster to see if I can use the Collection manager .

Imisel, i have decided I dont want to sell all of my collection, I love them too much. So at the moment its only doubles of character figures. I am undecided about some of the Xmas specials etc. Another reaason for not selling is it takes so long to put them on ebay then send them off, particularly as there were many non UK buyers winning my first batch of auctions, Im happy to send them all over world but it takes time at the post office!
I would like to get back into collecting the Mithril range again , but i need to wait a while till my finances have recovered !
If anyone would like images etc of the boxed sets or miniatures from other ranges Im quite happy to take pictures and send them.
Regards

Welcome back, Mors. – I think it was a good decision not to sell all your Mithril miniatures and get back here again.

I have been gathering all existing images about mithrils for the lostminiwiki gallery.
I sent you a mail for what pics I miss.