Gnome Wars Alternatives by Essex Miniatures

It's a slow day at work, so I'm cleaning up my personal email between conference calls, which means I'm mining ideas from Mike's emails for this blog. 

One thing Mike mentioned was the gnome-like look of a number of Essex Miniatures fantasy line. 

Above is a comparison of the Essex Samurai with the Brigade Games Japanese and a Dark Sword Miniatures Guinea Pig Samurai.  Not much discrepancy between all of the them.  They also stock Japanese spearmen and archers, to flesh out those Japanese armies.

Ninja!

Nice Alternative Gnome Wizard

I'm certainly not telling anyone to not use Brigade Games, or to pay for oversees shipping for a special figure or two, but it is worth checking them out for a little variety.  Be forewarned, the skeletons may look right, but in reality they're somewhere between the Brigade skeleton pirates and the skeletons with Super Dungeon Exlpore.