H is for Hetman, Hussars and Historiques!

It's the subsection I call Historical; from the post-Medieval through to pre-kharki, sometimes including ceremonial, but there were enough in the plunder to split them into two posts, so we're covering about 4/500-years here, except with the Figurines Historiques, where over a millennium is covered!

 

We had a decent shot of them in the sorting post, but I wanted to do better by them with a few more shots. A winged hussar from Poland, historically and actually, and a standard-bearer who might be contemporary (historically - Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), or even from the same set, but both beautiful figures. 

 

I have to assume PZG is in here somewhere, but the standard-bearer has an unconventional base which is more touristy, than the usual thick-but-flat bases associated with PZG, while the winged hussar has a base more like the semi-flats associated with another Polish firm?

 

I got several things from Peter at Replicants, the wagon was new a couple of years ago, but I've ended-up with another one, so I can get one out of the bag at some point, and a pack-mule with generic handler, both the humans cover several centuries with their peasant's smocks and trousers.

 

While these could have gone in the civilian post, or the combat post, but again with minor tweaks or paint, they, or various among them, cover any insurgency from Garibaldi or some of the Southern America's Wars of Independence, onwards, although, obviously, the chap with a sten-gun is less flexible time/theatre wise, and the detonator guy doesn't cover the range of the others.

 

Including last year's radio-operator, and the - previously seen as broaches - climbers, now given rifles, we have a set of resistance-fighters, or revolutionaries, partizans or Maquis, turncoats, left-behinds, rebels or 5th Columnists; irregulars, in a word! Already well blogged here;

 

Paul via Peter E - https://www.stadsstuff.com/?p=26381

Brain Carrick - https://toysoldiercollecting.blogspot.com/2026/07/new-replicants-french-resistance.html

 

Longer-served loyal readers may remember six years ago, a Hetman from PZG in one of Chris Smith's donations, for which, Grzegorz Maciak kindly supplied a horse? Well, I've since picked-up two more of them, each on a different horse, slightly frustrating, as there are other poses in the set, but they will make a lovely group charging across a shelf at some point!

  

There were 42 of these, or 47, I can't recall, but useful, as I have gaps in the collection of loose figures, and or need unpainted examples of those posibly painted by William J. Carman, so a quick sort at some point, and I should end up with most of the range in unpainted white. The orange one is a sunburnt example, not a plastic colour variation.

 

A bit bashed, but some garden war-gamer might do something with them, they just need pin-swords! Cherilea English Civil War figures.

 

French Cuirassiers

 

British Lifeguards

 

French Hussars

 

French Carabiniere

 

I mentioned in conversation with Paul, that I hadn't found the one thing I'd had on my 'sort of' wants list, this year, the Mounted Napoleonics from Britains Deetail, and he spent the next 20-odd minutes calling me over or directing me to various stashes he found, and I managed to pick-up 7, which leaves five to find - British hussars and dragoons and the other French carabiniere! A couple will benefit from a bit of a clean!

With tanks again this year to Adrian Little, Brian Carrick, Colin Penn, Isaac, Matt Murphy, Martin Fahie, Michael Mordant-Smith, Paul, Peter Evans and Trevor Rudkin.