Bit of a box-ticker this one, I collected
an incomplete set of Torgano alpine
troops or 'Alpini' a while back, and as the weather was good, I took them
outside and shot them in the garden, these shots were the result, and I've
shown them elsewhere, so here to tick the box!
54mm semi-flat, or demi-ronde; do you use French
for Italian figures? Five of six figures I think, the missing one being a
kneeling machine-gunner and the weakest of the sculpts as far as realism is concerned!
The plaque is one of two from our
childhood, the other is a squirrel I think, or a badger; I can't remember? But
they were obviously bought at a craft fair or some holiday destination as keepsakes,
and we had one each hung on the bedroom wall at the ends of our beds - we
shared a bedroom until I was sixteen!
Hand-carved sandstone, it originally had a knotted
leather bootlace to hang it, but when I found them last year, they are perished
brittle with age. Anyone know where they came from? They may have come back from America in '69?
2 comments:
Hello Hugh,
I think there were only six. I have four figures including the machine gunner you're missing, and you have the advancing guy and the clubbing guy that I'm missing.
The machine gunner isn't an overly realistic pose, but it's nicely sculpted all the same.
Regards,
Steve
Oh, cheers for that Steve, I didn't know what I was looking for!
H
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