Leviathan Models
Double post to fit more pictures in, and thank u/Gronk_Zilman for reminding me of these miniatures over on the excellent r/lostminiswiki subreddit.
These are “Starfighters Space Craft” and seem to be from the Elkiem Empire (painted brown) and United Nations Deep Space Fleet (painted blue).
This line was around in the 1970s, and I was not! These are a hand-me-down (or maybe “moved out and took them with me” would be fairer) and offer a glimpse into the practical realities of wargaming at the time. I’m pretty sure they are almost all recasts made using Milliput in some kind of improvised pressmould. Half a century later we might be able to forgive this small act of piracy. I think this sort of thing was quite common, with folks often ringing up (!) or sending a postal money order (!!) to a miniature company asking for one of every figure in their line. I guess as a manufacturer you would never have known if that was a prospective customer working around the lack of photos in magazines of the time and purchasing models “on spec” to see how well they scaled with the rest of their collection, a reviewer writing for a magazine, or the dreaded recaster!
So, what does this have to do with Warhammer? My hope is that this trip down memory lane will give you a better understanding of the ecosystem that game was born into. Not many of us were there at the time, and it can be hard to understand why certain business and creative decisions were made without that necessary context.