Ages and ages ago, I won a competition ran
by MSFoy over at the excellent (and far better written than my wittering's) Prometheus
in Aspic Blog, which was for a bundle of old Historex sheets, which variously include
English and/or bi-lingual guides to the regiments and uniforms of the Napoleonic
wars, and/or some B&W 'detailing' or reverse aspect sketches and/or a colour-plate painting guide.
I thought they were in storage/the garage,
but they turned-up last night in a box at the back of the attic! I already had
a few of the colour plates, while Mr. Foy sent some extra B&W sheets, so
between the two lots a pretty good run of the - mostly French - subjects has
been assembled.
They were going to go on a separate Blog,
but the last thing I need is a ['nother] separate Blog! So I will proceed to
start getting them up here, as nostalgic ephemera, which may be of use to
figure painters, with many thanks to Tony, and apologies for doing so little
with them, for so long.
Starting with the easiest/smallest, 'Louis
the Beloved' who actually seems to have been both ineffectual and
corrupt! And his babe from Poland!
There's no set number with these papers;
most of the sheets are tied into the catalogue numbers of the various kits one
could purchase, remembering also that you could buy separate accessory sets for
converting, and larger boxed sets were sold, with various individual numbered
kits and some accessories in the one outer, Tony believes that a lot of his
haul came from those sets, while I don't know if this pair were catalogued
items, or something to be built-up from the other civilian models in the range?
The files for the A-Z listing on Historex are still in storage, so
a complete (or as complete as I can get it) listing of Historex's product range will come along later!
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