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Thursday, 18 June 2020

Miniature Figurines S Range FN 42s French Sapeur

Over the last couple of months two or three of the grognard vintage Napoleonics painting bloggers have been posting about unidentified French Napoleonic Sapper figures.

Very recently I acquired four of these veterans - true to form on had sloped off somewhere and gone temporarily AWOL.

Anyway, for identification or elimination purposes, I thought I would post this photo. I've also posted it on my Lone S Ranger blog for the specialist, but thought it was also worth posting here on Vintage Wargaming for those of more general interests.

UPDATE: I am glad to report their comrade has returned to the colours.

Thursday, 12 December 2019

Miniature Figurines Ramblings

Foot Guard Grenadier in Shako Advancing

BN 54 (Intermediates) in centre, BN 54 s (S Range) on flanks

I thought I'd mention two activity threads I have kicked off over on the Lone S Ranger, as they may be of interest to some people here who may not follow that blog.

Firstly I have started trying to document the various types of S Range horses, provide photographs and chart their development as best I can; and

secondly, try to get to the bottom of the Miniature Figurines "Intermediates" Range, which seemingly was restricted to Napoleonic foot figures, was very short lived around 1973/4, and is largely undocumented (see comparison shoyt at top of this post).

Sunday, 26 April 2015

Minifigs S Range AWI 3s and 4s Massacheusetts Light Company

What collecting I hve been doing recently has focused on Minifigs S Range. Good honest figures i like nore and more each tinme I see them - and a tragedy that they should have been dropped for the misshapen chunky dwarves we now know as Minifigs and to which I attribute the blame for all the exaggeratedly big headed and handed miniatures of today....

Most of this collecting has been centred on the AWI, SYW and Hundred Years War ranges.

This has enabled me to fill in many of the gaps in pictures on the figures of these ranges on my Lone S Ranger blog. The latest are these rather distinctive AWI Massacheusetts Light Company figures.

If this piques your interest, have a look over at the Lone S Ranger blog. If anyone has examples or photos of any of the figures for which I do not have pictures, I would be particularly glad to hear from you.

I have also been busy painting around 200 medieval figures from the variios Hundred Years War (HYW, Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt) ranges. At some point I may put up some unit pictuires.

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