Dave,

Love your miniwar site

Ive always wanted to start painting minature battle recreations ever since I saw the movie Ronin. But I have to admit whenever Ive checked out minature sites a) I get confused by all the sizes and makes - which one I should use etc

b) many of the figure look a bit cartoonish or warhammer dwarfish if you get my meaning, where I was looking for as real as possible looking minatures, and probably the smaller the better because then you could create 'big battle scenes'

any advice for a minature newbie