how do these figures look? anyone heard of Historical Minatures?

I've never dealt with them before so I can't say whether or not they are good or bad. I've never been comfortable to order anything from e-bay and in all honesty the few times I've dealt with Russian companies I've not been very pleased with the quality or service so that negates them in my book.

They are pre assembles and this can be a problem if you are just starting out. Sometimes, the poses are such that you have to paint before assembly and these preassembled pieces look like thay can be a Pandora's box if you run into some complicated poses and lots of detail accessories that are much better done the same way than molded onto the figure already.

Colorado Miniatures and Redlancer have some comparably priced figures and they are both reputable companies with a fantastic selection of figures. Squadron used to carry some of the plastic Historex figures for as little as a couple of bucks and the quality was very nice, and produced a nice figure. Once its primered its doesn't matter if its plastic, metal or resin, the rest is all paint and up to you.

Good luck, they are addictive.

The good news, I don't recognize them so they don't appear to be pirated. The not so good news. They are one piece castings which means you will have a hard time painting and shading any hard to reach places.

But as a first foray into figures, they may not be a bad deal. Give them a shot and let the rest of us know. This seems to be the only source. The dealer has good feedback.

I'll second what Renarts says about The Red Lancer. I haven't dealt with Colorado but they seem to have a good following.

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Without a search bar though, i gave up browsing after a long time.

Red Lancer has a search function at the bottom of the list of links on the home page.