Ray Rubin, Vice President of
Grenadier and artist of all of Grenadier's box & blister card art, was born
and raised in Manhattan, NY. He also began collecting figures when he was 11
years old and joined MFCA early on. Ray's
background is colorful and varied; attending Hunter College in NY and receiving
his BA in Design (while Art was his love he fully appreciated the necessity of
having graphic design & sculpting in his portfolio) , serving a 2 year term
in the Army, working as a researcher for Fortune Magazine, a Buyer for Brookes
Bros., then graduate school. Eventually Ray ended up in Detroit where he helped
establish Squadron/Rubin Miniatures, a line of primarily 54 mm. historical
figures.
After nearly 3 years in the
Midwest, though, Ray yearned for the East Coast again and returned to help set
up. Canterbury Pewter (our mother company) with Andy Chernak. Grenadier was set
up immediately to produce 25 mm. American Revolutionary War figures (the
initial figure was a …Grenadier, hence the name.) but soon other historical
lines came to be.
While Ray has sculpted for years (and
painted professionally also) his chief concerns now are packaging & design specialty
figures (like animals), and is in charge of coordination between all the various
departments. As he likes to put it his, greatest joy is in seeing that everything
works properly. Every box cover and blister card
we have ever done has been painted by Ray and the progression of his
"visions" match the progression of our quality.
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Andrew Chernak (Seated) and Ray Rubin (Standing)
Space Squadrons Blister Card Art
Space Squadrons Box Set Art
