I’ve heard all sorts of anecdotes over the years about Miniature Wargames and famous people. Barry Manilow paints Napoleonics. Robin Williams has a Warhammer 40K army. Here’s some documentary proof. Revered British actor Peter Cushing (may he rest in peace) loved miniature soldiers and wargaming in the old-fashioned, H.G. Wells sense. The movie snippet is from the British Pathe films website.
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[…] big Hollywood star who has a huge miniature collection is Robin Williams. I know people who’ve been contracted to paint for him. Some of the Industrial Light and […]
[…] people play with toy soldiers, too. See, if THEY do it, it’s totally main stream, right? As I reported last February, Peter Cushing (of Hammer Films and Star Wars fame) was an avid toy soldiers collector and painter. […]