Editing Ral Partha (section)

==== Ral Partha joins [[Battletech|Wolf's Dragoons]], the [[Imperial Guard]], and the Adventurer's League====
By the dawn of the 80's, Meier had gone from snot-nosed kid pouring molten lead into homemade molds in his basement into a legitimate business man with Kidd and Smethurst, and decided to hire a couple of other modelers like Julie Guthrie and Dennis Mize to help him keep the flow going, and he more or less created line after line after line of fantasy critters and races, many of whom saw play in at least a couple of the burgeoning industries' many wargames and RPGs, some of whom his business partners contributed to, or wrote. But always, the focus was on the models, because that was the meal ticket. In '84, Mize and Guthrie got some work for the company in the gift market with unicorn sculptures in pewter, and that successful line ultimately gave them vital experience in not-lead based metals that would come in handy not a few years later. All of this came just in time for Ral Partha to get in touch with the guys over at FASA to help create a line for their upcoming game ''Battledroids'', which they ended up making bank with when they changed the name to Battletech, as well as help the [[Citadel Miniatures|Citadel]] miniatures company break into the US by being their manufacturer. 

They'd also by then become AD&D's sole model maker, which was a major stroke of luck in keeping the metal and money flowing. And they were doing so well that they decided "y'know, we've tried this once or twice and make bank making figures for other companies' games...why don't we try doing one of our own?"