Rod, thanks for the complement my Berlin/Eastern Front friend; thanks as well for your praise JR. SMM are very nice figures. I have sold loads of his Winter US and German packs, ditto on his Pacific items. He is doing things noone else does (Wake Island defenders and Marine Raiders), a MacArthur pack is due out soon.
As far as the best; my personal favorite is AB, they look like actual humans, the faces are amazing. Battlefield Miniatures/Blitz is next, they do a massive amount of stuff, then SMM, then Britannia (nice robust figures, most of my Marines and Japanese are Britannia), then FAA, then Fantassin ( a mixed bag), then SHQ (kind of in the thin side), then it's a hodge podge of stuff from there.