Down Memory Lane Again: Yet More Superfigs From Four-Color Studios' Supersystem Range

Continuing with the excavation of my old image archives, I've turned up a number of minis from Old Glory's Superfigs range, originally made for Four-Color Studios' Supersystem game back around 2000.  I did a partial gallery of that rather large figure line years ago, but that post is already rather long so I'm doing this lot separately.

The older gallery actually features more recent (albeit still quite old, about fifteen years even for the most recent) paint jobs.  The ones here are older still, with some of the paint jobs dating back almost a quarter of a century now and the (lousy) photography done in 2012 for ebay, which partially explains some rather odd groupings of figs.  These aren't the best images by a long shot but the catalog photos are mostly bare metal, so better these than nothing.

Atlanteans and an out-of-town visitor.  Rear left is Megladon, rear right is Lord Tridan (both found under Bricks at the store).  Front left is the small form of the Homunculoid (a three-pack found under Supers - we'll see his mid-sized form later on) with a minor conversion to add a head fin.  Front center is Spine-Strike (a Brawler).  Front right is an old Cthulhu Mythos Mi-Go sculpt from Grenadier.  Bases are 50mm for the big guys, 40mm for the others, which holds true for all these images.

Some of the Alien Host leaders:  Warlord Karthoum (upper left), Krong the Mighty (upper right - better images and paint job of him at the older post linked above), Zorn the Swift (lower left - he doesn't even have an image at OG's site), and Warlord Phaedra (lower right).

A mixture of Soviet (or at least Russian - the game came out well after the USSR had fallen) heroes and henchmen.  All bases are 40mm.  If you hadn't guessed, most of my Supersystem gaming used my "City Park and Environs" terrain collection, hence the unrelenting grass green on these bases. 

The two T-34 cyborgs in back are found under the Gun Fighter category at the web store, and are one of very few multi-part minis in the whole line, with the shoulder weapon pod being separate and somewhat poseable.  The Siberian (front left) is a Brick, and yes, he's pretty much super-Stalin.  Pobyeda (front right) is the only human-sized fig, and a bit of a cheat, since he's actually one of two figures that come in the Paragons pack found under the Supers category rather than a properly Soviet mini.    

These power-armored brutes are the Katyusha Rockets, a Henchman group.

A diverse set of figs with a unifying paint scheme, they can be found in the store listings under the following "official" names and categories:  Shield Maiden (sans her shield, rear left, under New Foundation Zero Figures), Giantess (rear right, a Brick), Cat (front right, a Super), Super-Charger and Kid Dynamo (center front and front right, a two-pack Super listing).

I used this lot as a team of quirky supers who did their thing in street clothes, but the can be found on the store as parts of Civilian packs #1 and #3.  For some arcane reason I never did buy pack #2 despite it including some nifty poses.

Another slight cheat, since the two figs on the left came from a pack of Hell's Angels in the West Wind/Gothic Horror/Vampire Wars/Bad Moon Over Memphis section of the Old Glory store.  The gal with the lash and the gent with the chain standing next to her in the rear row are the on-foot figures from the "demon biker & succubus" pack found in the henchman listings, which also with them riding a bike together.  In the front left we have Kragg, who is listed as a Brick despite being human-sized.  Not all Bricks are giants, you have to kind of guess by their prices. 

Another varied lot.  Rear left is Giantess (a Brick) again in a different color scheme, rear right is Grav-Girl (a Flyer).  From left to right in the front row we have Split-Second (a Speedster), Seeker (a Brawler), and Mind-Hawk (a Blaster).

A terrible cheat, with only two actual Superfigs here.  Left rear is a Foo Dog from Reaper, right rear is the Strongman for OG's West Wind Gothic Horror Circus of Death range - and slightly converted, since I'm pretty sure he's intended to be undead and had what looked like exposed ribs showing that I puttied over.  He's stupidly expensive for no obvious reason, a rarity for Old Glory.  In front from left to right we have (sigh) "Yin-Yang" (a Brawler), Tryckster (another Brawler), and an old Fairy Meat miniature from KenzerCo. 

More varied Superfigs.  Rear left is Rigger (a Gadgeteer), center rear and the little guy in front of them are the three sizes of...Atlantis?  I thought he was Doc Atlas in the rulebook...well, whatever, he comes in a three-figure pack under Supers.  Rear right is Fireflight (a Flyer).  Front left is Stretcharm (a "Stretch"), the sprinting gent in white and red is one of three models in the Homunculoid pack (under Super), and front right is Stalker (a Brawler, and a little bigger than most humans).  

Some Reich-sympathizing supers here, with the big fellow in the back being Perun (a Brick) and the winged woman being Blackbird ( Flyer).  The slightly smaller giant in front is Krieghunde (also a Brick), the guy in the spandex being the other figure from the Paragons Supers pack that Pobyeda came from (up in the Soviets image), and the fellow with the forearm gun is Manticore (a Gadgeteer).  

And finally, couple of sets of Plasti-Men (found under Henchmen) with some minor conversions for variety.

Space Mercenaries Squad: 28mm Old Glory Showcase

 Taking another look at some 28mm scale Old Glory scifi figures with paint jobs dating back to around 2013.  These are "Space Mercenaries pack #5" and can be found on their site over here:

Old Glory Figures of the Month Sets

Like the other sets on that page, they can be purchased normally but are also a free reward option for signing up for a year's membership in the Old Glory Army program, which I talked about at some length in this older post showcasing their modular robot set:

Old Glory Modular Robots

At $44 retail choosing these would offset most of the $50 membership fee.  If for some reason you wanted more and didn't feel like waiting a year to renew for another freebie set, extra sets would be down to $26.40, which is a  pretty good bargain for sturdy metal sculpts here in 2026.

Pretty sure these were sculpted by Bob Naismith, who was doing a lot of work for Old Glory back when these first came out.

The miniatures come in two pieces, with the backpacks separate and reasonably optional.  They look better with them on in my opinion, but you could leave them off if desired.  They come with integral bases but I believe these were mounted on 1.25" washers here.

There are ten figures to a pack, with four "trooper" sculpts (of which you'll get a couple of random duplicates) as well as a leader and heavy weapon operator.

Firestorm Armada Directorate Fleet Gallery

Continuing on from the Relthoza fleet gallery, here's another set of old images of first-generation Directorate miniatures from Spartan Games' Firestorm Armada range.  Spartan is long gone and Warcradle has the rights to the game as of time of writing, and 3rd edition is in active development after lengthy delays.  Like most FSA ships they're resin except for the small escort ships, and most are quite large compared to (say) Full Thrust or Brigade models minis.

Sample shot of the various classes for size comparisons.  Starting from the largest ship in the upper left and going roughly clockwise, that's a dreadnought, a battleship, a carrier, a cruiser, an escort, a frigate, a destroyer, and a heavy cruiser.

Another group shot with the smaller ships in their respective units.  The heavy cruiser (center rear) acts as a leader for a cruiser squadron, and up to three escorts can accompany each large ship to help defend them.  

Carrier and escort group.  If I remember correctly the carrier was a two- or three-piece metal casting, and by far the heaviest model of the lot. which earned it a metal flight post as well.  Might be wrong though, it's been years.  No idea what I did with the fighter tokens, which were odd resin castings that had details of the individual fighter craft but sat flat on the table rather than on a flight base.

Same group from the rear.  Yes, the carrier is essentially a single-saucer version of a Cylon base star from old school Battlestar Galactica.

The first of many belly views, showing off the carrier's limited weaponry and ventral "runways" mirroring the dorsal ones.

The battleship with its escort group.  The big ship is about five inches long, but being resin makes it fairly lightweight.  Unlike many Directorate ships it actually has some weapons visible from above.

Same group, moving away from the POV.

And a belly shot showing off how many gun mounts there are on this thing.  Almost all Directorate ships have the bulk of their obvious weaponry on the dorsal hull, which is a neat idea in theory but leaves the models looking rather plain when they're actually in use on the table.   

Another group shot, this time without the battleship and carrier included.  The dreadnought is well over six inches long but again, fairly light thanks to being mostly resin.

Even the "small" ships are pretty big, and in keeping with the game's odd ideas about ship classes, the destroyer (lower right here) is very nearly as big as a cruiser (top right).  Firestorm Armada calls for a big table due to the big footprint the minis occupy, despite the fact that many large ships can't move their own hull length in a turn.  

Belly shot, and again we see a huge array of weapons that are mostly concealed from above.  In addition to all the smaller turrets, the dreadnought has three of those huge weapon arrays, one fixed forward and one on each side in rotating mounts (although you can't see the portside one well here).

There's that portside rotating weapon array just poking out from under the main hull. 

Cruiser squadron lead by a heavy cruiser.

As usual, the bellies are covered in turreted weapons, although nowhere near as many as the capital ships.

A destroyer squadron, apparently suffering some navigation issues.

What a shock, more belly guns.

Big squadron of frigates, who wind up being cannon fodder in most games.  Unlike teh escorts, these are resin models. 

And yes, they do have belly guns of their own.

I think that was all of the Directorate ships I painted back in the day, and it might actually be all of the "first generation" sculpts for the fleet.  There was at least one generation beyond this one which shared a similar overall style but was very different in the details.

Firestorm Armada Relthoza Fleet Gallery

Firestorm Armada originally came out from Spartan Games around the end of 2009, had a fairly steady stream of new releases including a 2nd edition, lasting until about 2017 before the company shut down for good.  These days Warcradle owns the rights to most of the old Spartan games, but while they have an open playtest document for a 3rd edition there's really nothing been done with it since 2020 and none of the older minis are available through them at this point.  We recently had word that the new edition is back in development here in 2026, so we'll see what comes of that.  Certainly not holding my breath on new releases, and sadly I doubt the older figures (there have been at least two generations of these ships with quite different design aesthetics) will ever come back - except perhaps as STLs for home 3D printing.  

Anyway, I'll do my part to preserve some record of the early Firestorm Armada line, in this case with a gallery of some very old (well over ten years now) painted samples of some of the Relthoza ships.

This is my only surviving image of most of an original Relthoza fleet box (one battleship, three cruisers, and four frigates over on the left - the box came with six initially) plus a blister pack of escorts (on the right) and a heavy cruiser (the bigger horizontally-oriented ship).  All resin except for the three metal escorts.  They're quite large, with the battleship over 6" long.  All are resin except for the escorts.

Escorts again, this time with a pair of  destroyers and a dreadnought.

Took a lot of photos of that dread.

It is a nice model, very detailed but easily painted and a breeze to assemble, only four parts if memory serves.

Not the speediest of ships, as you might guess by the relatively dinky engines.

The two "side hull" pieces would almost work as cruiser-sized ships on their own.

Despite its size and vertical layout, being made of fairly light resin made it pretty stable, although I did cut down the flight post to further lower the center of gravity.

Destroyers again, another very vertical design.

Firestorm was weird in that destroyers were nearly as big as cruisers.

Escorts, in the older more yellow color scheme I first used.

Size comparison shot with a customized Phalon ship from Ground Zero Games' Full Thrust range.  Probably not a great deal of help, but the custom ship was built off a combine superdreadnought and battlecruiser hull.  Its also made of metal (with metal flight post as well) and weighs considerably more than the larger Relthoza resin figure.     

Another size comparison image, with a Full Thrust Japanese superdreadnought added.

And one last image, this time next to the two largest ESU ship classes in the Full Thrust range, with the superdreadnought on the left and the heavy carrier on the right.

I note that as of time of writing, you can turn up a few more images on Pinterest from back when these were on sale, or from old deleted blog posts of mine.  Not going to try dredging them out of the Wayback Machine though, so these will have to do.