Thursday, 18 August 2011

JR toy sort-out. Part 2

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!
Quite a mixture in here - mostly Romans, and about half a dozen chariots.
Some painted stuff too - including pikemen, light cavalry and Sassanid levy infantry.
Another real mixture of figures - including some Dark Age axe swinging types.
Mostly Assyrians and Greeks in here.
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.
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11 comments:

  1. Paul18 August 2011 at 12:02

    Cripes thats a lot of lead there!

    The sorting process seems to be going very well.

    I hope your shelves are sturdy.

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  2. Tim Gow18 August 2011 at 12:41

    Paul
    Nothing is on shelves yet - but the garage floor is solid concrete!

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  3. Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com18 August 2011 at 13:00

    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.

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  4. Tim Gow18 August 2011 at 13:14

    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...

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  5. Peter Douglas18 August 2011 at 14:05

    Tim

    Looks like you've got many hours of fun ahead of you - sorting out, researching, painting, making up army lists...

    PD

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  6. Tim Gow18 August 2011 at 14:43

    Peter Douglas
    Years and decades I think - given that they are already 30-40 years old!

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  7. Paul´s Bods18 August 2011 at 16:37

    Bloody hell!!! Not only is that one heap of figs but they must be ancient.
    Cheers
    paul

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  8. Tim Gow18 August 2011 at 18:19

    Paul's Bods
    Ancient in every sense of the word!

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  9. Tim Gow18 August 2011 at 22:32

    West1871
    It can also be a rather alarming voyage of discovery!

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  10. Don M22 August 2011 at 04:30

    See allot of old Minifigs, Garrison, and Hinchclif...memory lane time for all of us that got their start in the 1970s...;-)

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  11. Tim Gow22 August 2011 at 09:36

    Don M
    I remember Garrison being more affordable when Hinchliffe were a staggering 17p each in the late '70s!

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