Sometimes when you are bidding on interesting figures on Ebay, you toss a dollar on an odd figure and win - its like the thrill of gambling.  I knew nothing about this figure when I won him for about $1.

My Google-Fu is pretty strong...  but when I turned up nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing on the whole of the interwebs on this figure.... I figured there had to be reason... and at that point.. I turned to the collective wargaming hive-mind that is The Miniatures Page....  and boy.. what I story behind this little guy....

http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=298703

Wow...