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Martian Metals
Martial Metals was a company that produced miniature figures in the 1970s and 1980s for science-fiction tabletop games. Company history Martian Metals was founded in 1976 by Forest Brown to provide metal miniatures to the burgeoning fantasy role-playing game industry. Miniatures produced by the company had a distinctive six-sided base designed to fit the standard hex grid map used in many miniatures games. The company became the licensed supplier of mkiniatures for games such as '' Ogre''/'' G.E.V.'', ''Traveller'', and '' RuneQuest''. Martian Metals rapidly became one of the premier miniatures companies in the RPG industry, winning several awards. A major fire in the mid-1980s destroyed everything in the company shop, forcing Martian Metals out of business. As Matt Irsik recalled, "this was one of the up and coming companies in sci-fi wargaming. At the time they were just getting going." Brown would later start up another miniatures company, Deimos Design Studio, that was acti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martian Metal Miniature Hex Base
Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has appeared as a setting in works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s. It became the most popular celestial object in fiction in the late 1800s as the Moon was evidently lifeless. At the time, the predominant genre depicting Mars was utopian fiction. Contemporaneously, the mistaken belief that there are canals on Mars emerged and made its way into fiction. '' The War of the Worlds'', H. G. Wells' story of an alien invasion of Earth by sinister Martians, was published in 1897 and went on to have a large influence on the science fiction genre. Life on Mars appeared frequently in fiction throughout the first half of the 1900s. Apart from enlightened as in the utopian works from the turn of the century, or evil as in the works inspired by Wells, intelligent and human-like Martians also began to be depicted as decadent, a portrayal that was popularized by Edgar Rice Burroughs in the ''Barsoom'' series and adopted by Leigh Bracket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
