CooModel

CooModel's signature is the Series of Empires, and the pitch is in the name of the material: die-cast metal armor, assembled plate by plate, on the warlords who actually wore it. The line's great theater is Sengoku Japan, where Oda Nobunaga appears in multiple tellings up to a Black Cattail armor presentation, flanked by Date Masamune, Sanada Yukimura and Uesugi Kenshin, rivals in history and now in cabinet space.

The European wing answers with crowned steel: Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, knights of the sanctuary and temple, and a properly armored warhorse, because a knight without a mount is just a very committed pedestrian. Between the two empires sits the originals wing, where the Swords of Chaos legendary armors, Gold Dragon, Black Lion, Black Fish, let the company design without a history book, and the Nightmare Series raises skeletal knights for collectors who like their armor haunted.

Then there are the curveballs. In 2024 CooModel shipped a Matrix machines run, actual hardware from the machine war at one-sixth scale, which is not where anyone expected a samurai house to go and is somehow entirely in character: it is still armor, just for a different empire.

Weigh one in your hand before judging the price; the metal explains itself.