This is the last of these posts for a while, we'll have a break for other stuff and look at the nappies who turned-up the other day, in a month or two.
They look 'old school' and (given some of
the comments I've now seen on the earlier posts) vaguely Minifigs, but the bases are thinner and there's no marking on
either surface? A little bigger than Airfix,
but they'd fit in if mixed together and painted the same, so not the 25mm
giants of some makers?
Again from earlier posts I guess the trio
at bottom-left (with an AWI interloper!) are minifigs? While the backwoodsman
(2A) could be, but he has a nice chamfered base edge with 45ยบ corner-cuts, can anyone ID him?
Top right (2B) has rounded corners to his
base and again is Airfix compatible
while the gunner looks to be a factory painted figure, possibly from the AHI / Minikins debatable sets we looked at yesterday, but without a 'Japan' - smaller base?
A huge, crawling chunk of probably quite
recent 28/30mm who's been shot in the face and lost his [separate] arm and some
6mm lumpettes; I've no real love for any of them but I'd like to put maker's names
to them nonetheless!
Are these Little Lead Soldier? If so the James
Bond stuff (which may have an answer by the time this publishes) from the
civilian posting is all the more of a mystery? Very small; an almost HO-gauge
compatible 18mm or so (allowing for basing I guess), simple sculpts in simple
poses (designed to be bent - which was a LLS
trope, no?) and with an AWI (4B) type in Tricorn who seems to be just as small
and blobby?
Again these have something of the Minifigs about them, but maybe a tad
taller and with nice ogee edges to the bases? Also they have DS Figures on them, but I can't find a DS Figures?* Are they more commonly
known by a full name and only abbreviated on the figure bases Dark or Darkest
Star or Sword??
Assuming (yeah! I'm living on the edge
Erwin!) U is for Union and C is for Confederate, would A
be for American [Civil War], it seems to be all staff types who can be used by
both sides? Or: 'Artillery'
And further assuming (well - if I'm gonna
be hung by a cock-wacker- might as well
make it for the whole mutton) GG is for a General Grant character
figure, who does that make Z, who looks to be artillery or is
he a Zouave? And aside from the make - does anyone know the full code of the
other sword-waver?
*My DS's include:
DSC Showcases
DSI
DSG
D Sebel (Mobo)
Daniel Smith Art Materials
Dan
the Sign Man
Darkest
Star Games
Dark
Slave Miniatures
Dark
Sphere Games
Dark
Star
Dark
Sword Miniatures Inc.
Darr's
Scale Models
Data
Source Inc.
Davies-Spark
(Wend-Al)
Dave's
Slides
Debes
& Sohn
Decal
Star
Deep
Strike
Denis de'Saint
Dennis
Storzek
De
Sanctis
Design
Studio
Deutsche
Spitball
Diamond
Select Toys
Dick
Simmonds & Co.
Dinosaur
Studio, the
Diorama
Shop
Diorama
Solutions
Disney
Stores
Distinctive
Scale Models
Diversified
Specialists Inc
Dollparts
Supply Co.
Dongguan
Silverlit
Donald
L Squire
Dorset
Soldiers
Dregeno
Seiffen
Dreschel
& Stroebel
Dri-Slide
Dummitt,
Scott
DUR
et Solide (Durso)
Dynasty
Scale Models
The likely candidates are strangely all in a group highlighted in purple above
Figures in photo 1 are I think very early Minifigs (1970ish) , Photo 5 are Standden Figures - still sold by Tradition Toy Soldiers of London , Tony
ReplyDeleteThank you Good Soldier! It's funny how Stadden varies in style, these must be early work of his maybe?
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Tim writes....
1 Hinton Hunt
5 NOTHING like Minifigs -Tradition 25mm http://www.traditionoflondonshop.com/index.php?cPath=221&cPath=221&page=6&page=6&page=10 I THINK they were designed by Don? Sanderson
2A, Minifigs - IM 21 Sepoy Infantry - Advancing (Service Dress) (I think?? I can't see details)
2C Minifigs
ACW29 Confederate Artillery Officer
ACW 44 Federal Marine Officer
AWI124 Oneida Indian
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Thank you again Tim, and everyone who's commented on these posts, i will sort the 'Wellingtonians' out for later in February, but I will filter out the HH's and any others who's 'rules' have been laid down in the last week or so!
Thanks all
H
A few days latter and Tim adds another DS to the mix!
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Certainly this explains a number of things about the Tradition range, it’s slightly variable quality, for example (though good, Scheinmann’s figures are no match for those of Stadden) and the fact that some early North American Indians in our collections have the initials D.S stamped on the bases. While the Figurines range included figures not on the Tradition lists that may be explained by the fact that they were sold painted — with "conversions" effected simply by a change of colours. They may also have been individually animated.
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Cheers again
H