poliphilo | The Occultist

IRL this person- from some tabletop game no-one plays any more- is about an inch high.

I bought most of my gaming figures secondhand on ebay and painted them myself. There was no system to my collecting. Price was a factor; otherwise I bought figures that appealed to me, irrespective of maker or date. The earliest ones date from the 80s, the most recent from 20 years later. I have a particular liking for the early ones because they're chunky and rough-hewn and feel like they were designed with love. I mostly steered clear of Warhammer. My biggest coup was to buy a cheap job lot of manky looking figures- one of which (and I'd spotted it in the picture the seller had posted) was a very early, much sought after female gaoler

I never played with them, just arranged them in shifting tableaux- as I'm doing today.