Knuckleduster manufactures 28mm War of 1812 wargame miniatures, as well as 28 and 40mm Old West figures. All of our products are cast in lead-free pewter, which costs a bit more to make and sell, but provides our customers with an extremely safe and durable material to work with (and who can put a price on peace of mind?). All figures are sculpted and all samples are painted by Forrest Harris.
Sculptor, musician, master's level administration graduate, and game-industry professional Forrest Harris discovered miniatures from an article in Time Magazine in the 1970s featuring a photo of a Napoleonic wargame. Soon he was buying Airfix figures and copies of Wargamer's Digest at a Galesburg, Illinois hobby shop and developing a lifelong love of miniature wargaming.
He founded Knuckleduster in 1998. In the early years, Knuckleduster published sourcebooks for western roleplaying games and sold painted figures produced by Old Glory and Wargames Foundry. By 2003, Forrest was sculpting his own figures and Knuckleduster was selling castings under the Knuckleduster Miniatures brand.
Forrest learned the art of mold-making and casting under the tutelage of former GAMA president and all-around great guy Don Perrin. Soon after he started doing the grunt work to produce his own miniatures. Ten years later, he resolved to educate himself about digital sculpting in order to keep up with times and improve the quality of Knuckleduster's figures.
By 2015, Knuckleduster had purchased the best quality commercial-grade 3D printer available. This piece of equipment was a huge investment, but it took the company to a new level in the industry, providing customers with figures of a seemingly magical level of clean detail.
For the past three years, Knuckleduster has resided in its own commercial shop in Normal, Illinois. Today we have three part-time employees and release new figures every month in the game and model railroad industries.
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