The sorting out has so far been confined to putting stuff in 'themed' boxes. The sheer quantity of figures came as something of a surprise. This post deals with the pre-gunpowder 25mm toys. The main manufacturers represented (as far as I can tell) are Minifigs, Hinchliffe and Garrison - from the days when 25mm figures were actually 25mm tall!
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Quite a mixture in here - mostly Romans, and about half a dozen chariots. |
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Some painted stuff too - including pikemen, light cavalry and Sassanid levy infantry. |
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Another real mixture of figures - including some Dark Age axe swinging types. |
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Mostly Assyrians and Greeks in here. |
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Lots of pikemen and Thracians. The small box contains Napoleonic figures - I recognise the cavalry and remember using them in games in the late '70s. |
11 comments:
Cripes thats a lot of lead there!
The sorting process seems to be going very well.
I hope your shelves are sturdy.
Paul
Nothing is on shelves yet - but the garage floor is solid concrete!
A box of dreams really.
Unrealized dreams perhaps but one can picture how these armies might have looked in the buyer's imagination at the time they were bought, all painted, deployed and winning great victories in the mind;s eye.
Ross Mac
That's a lovely thought. I somehow feel I have a duty to paint and use at least some of these chaps. Not sure about the 'great victories' though...
Tim
Looks like you've got many hours of fun ahead of you - sorting out, researching, painting, making up army lists...
PD
Peter Douglas
Years and decades I think - given that they are already 30-40 years old!
Bloody hell!!! Not only is that one heap of figs but they must be ancient.
Cheers
paul
Paul's Bods
Ancient in every sense of the word!
West1871
It can also be a rather alarming voyage of discovery!
See allot of old Minifigs, Garrison, and Hinchclif...memory lane time for all of us that got their start in the 1970s...;-)
Don M
I remember Garrison being more affordable when Hinchliffe were a staggering 17p each in the late '70s!
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