Oh, what twenty-five years ago, I gathered a sort of, Middle-Earth' army of orcs, goblins, elves and heroes of one sort or another. Quite a few wargamers did at the time, I recall. Now, I’d not actually done anything with them for years and years, until my youngest son, Patrick and I went to see 'The Two Towers' and the magnificently staged battle for Helm's Deep, every bit as vivid on the screen as in the book. Unearthing my orcs, dwarves etc, for examination by a highly critical non­-wargaming (as a rule) 14 year old and his mates, it was pointed out to me that I didn't have any Hobbits. True enough I didn't, since back in those days, the decidedly un-warlike inhabitants of the Shire were disregarded by many manufacturers of the evil forces of Mordor and such like. On looking, I found a Hobbit with remarkable ease. A 15mm figure to set beside the very chunky and gruesome 25mm goblins of yesteryear. Table Top Miniatures of Cardiff produce HU26 Mercenary Bowman in their Renaissance Eastern European range at a mere 12p a figure. It's delightful, shooting an Asiatic horn bow, and clad suitably for an adventure, the figure also wears a big tall crowned floppy hat, and paints up very well, though sadly, in the hairy feet department I had to disguise the shoes with flock. Hobbits aside, the TTM list has a substantial range of 15mm figures, from Ancients to Colonials that is well worth looking at. Table Top Miniatures, 102 Habershon St, Splott, Cardiff, Wales CF2 2L . List price is 50p, and e-mail matthew.drayton@cableol.co.uk Back to Table of Contents -- Lone Warrior # 146 Back to Lone Warrior List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 2004 by Solo Wargamers Association. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com