Jack Scruby

To meet the needs of wargamers for inexpensive but historically accurate miniatures, Scruby began casting figures made of type metal in 1955 and selling them from his shop in central California.

Jack Scruby was also a founder of a miniature wargaming club in 1971 along with Robert (Bob) Casey, Stephen (Steve) R. Casey, Elliot M. Derman, Michael (Mike) W. Frank, Raymond (Ray) James Jackson, Wayne Ludvickson, David Rusk, Ronald (Ron) Vaughan, and Harold (Hal) Windell.

From the late 1950s until October 1973, Jack Scruby's miniatures business was in Tulare County, specifically in or near Visalia.

Then he moved to Cambria in San Luis Obispo County (the California coast near Hearst Castle) where he opened a retail shop, called like his mail-order business, The Soldier Factory.

In 1975[1] Scruby introduced a line of fantasy figures using the 30mm scale advocated by Gary Gygax in Chainmail[2] and appropriate for use with Dungeons & Dragons.