Back in the early 70's, Duke Seifried set up Custom Cast Inc which became one of America's largest manufacturer of wargame figures. Der Kriegspielers 'Fantastiques' were one of the earliest fantasy ranges (beaten by Miniature Figurines in '73 and Jack Scruby slightly after) and certainly the most diverse and colourful! The 1000 series was absolutely based on Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit with slight name changes in many case being probably too close to Tolkein's creations.
A full listing can be seen on the Lost Minis WIKI here.
I picked up a few pieces back in the day when Games Workshop (via Dalling Road mail order) imported them but they were, as was the way back then, too expensive for my meagre means. Michael Thomas now has most of the ranges available again (https://classicminiatures.net/) and I can vouch that they are indeed excellent high quality metal castings. Anyway, I was sorting through boxes and came across a bunch of the range so thought I'd better post them here...
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Interesting to see these. I had a DK listing in the early 70s but no importers back then and buying stuff direct from the US wasn't a practical proposition. Later on we had the Heritage stuff - which I think was made under license in the UK by Hinchliffe - could be wrong - perhaps someone knows better than I :)
There was a tie in with Hinchliffe, with the Heritage range. It didn't last for very long, maybe only one year.
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