The Hinton Hunter: painting instructions

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Monday, 11 September 2017

Painting Instructions - EWH 2 Trooper, Roundhead Cavalry (Ironsides)

I've just acquired my first significant number of ECW Hinton Hunt figures and along with them was an original painting guide for EWH 2. As I've never seen an ECW painting guide before I thought I would post the text here (below).

EWH. 2.

HINTON HUNT FIGURES

PAINTING INSTRUCTIONS

ENGLISH CIVIL WAR – 1642 /49

TROOPER, ROUNDHEAD CAVALRY (IRONSiDES)

Helmet.	Steel. Generally painted black.
Doublet.	Red with buff coat over the top leaving only the arms of the doublet exposed (the sleeves were sometimes alternative rust red and light fawn bands). The long full skirts of the buff coat reach to the knees.
Collar.	White.
Cuirass.	Steel with leather waist strap having a brass buckle. The cuirass was generally painted black to avoid rust.
Gloves.	Buff.
Boots.	Light brown leather with steel spurs.
Sword belt.	Brown leather with brass buckle and slide.
Scabbard.	Brown leather with steel tip.
Sword	Steel with steel basket hilt.
Note	The armour, helmet and sword of the above figure are based on existing examples in the Hinton collection.
	Horse (EWH. 2.)
Bridle & reins.	Brown leather with steel buckles.
Saddle.	Brown leather, with skirts to saddle brown leather.
Holsters.	Pistol holsters, brown leather, wooden pistol butts with brass caps.
Breast strap, etc.	Brown leather.

Monday, 12 June 2017

Hinton Hunt Painting Instructions

After a significant amount of work I have now finished transcribing all the sets of original Hinton Hunt Painting Transactions I have or which people have kindly sent me.

These originals are typically slightly (at least) fuzzy carbon copy type documents. They don't reproduce well when posted so transcribing them seemed to be the best way to preserve them and make them accessible and usable.

Marcus Hinton was not entirely consistent in style or spelling but I have tried to remain as true as possible to the originals, avoiding editing and keeping as close to the original text and layout.

All are for Napoleonic figures.

I have grouped them in seven separate documents:

A - Index - a list of all those included in the transcripts

1 - AN Codes - Austrians (16)
2 - BN Codes - British (24)
3 - FN Codes - French (51)
4 - PN Codes - Prussian (11)
5 - RN Codes - Russian (9)

6 - Smaller Nations - includes Bavaria (1), Brunswick (3), Netherlands (1), Hesse-Darmstadt (2), Nassau (1), Portugal (1), Grand Duchy of Warsaw (1), Wurttemberg (1)

These documents are pdfs. I hope there may be some additions in time as people may send me scans or copies of sets I don't yet have.

As there is the potential for these documents to change I am not making them available at the moment for download. Instead, you can send me a comment (which I won't publish), giving your email address and saying which of the seven documents you would like me to send you.

It may be that more recent research has overtaken some of this information but Marcus Hinton was serious about his research and they give the authentic answer to how he expected his figures to be painted in the 1960s and 70s. Having transcribed them all I can confirm I think they will be very helpful for anyone looking to paint these vintage figures (provided, of course, the particular set of instructions you need were available to me and are included in my list0.

As I am doing this because once I had done it for myself I thought I would share the information with others, this is all on a good will basis so I make no guarantees about how quickly I can deal with any requests I receive, but I will do my best to respond quickly.

This information is provided on condition no commercial use is made of it, and on condition you do not copy and send to anyone else. If you know of anyone who would also like them, please direct them here to obtain them from me.

Saturday, 27 May 2017

The Latest Labour of Love - a heads up

You could buy your Hinton Hunt figures with painting instructions researched and produced by Marcus Hinton. These were duplicated sheets of paper (remember Gestetner machines, anybody). Where they survive they can be hard to read, as they are in effect poor carbon copies, around 50years old. I have some originals, and others which people have scanned and sent me, which are also hard to read. You can find many of them posted on this blog here. I have since learned a little more about effective scanning, for example using an black background to prevent show through from the other side, and the use of high pass sharpen in photoshop to improve the images.Also it is possible that I now have a better scanner then when I made these posts a few years ago.

I therefore decided I would transcribe all the sets I have, so that they were clearly legible, and could be made available through this blog to those who would like them.

I don't have a complete set but I do have an index of those in my possession, so if anyone has others please contact me via a comment and I will be glad to add them to the list.

Marcus Hinton was not 100% consistent in his spelling, layout and punctuation, and mostly I have followed his text for each painting instruction, only altering them where this is necessary for them to make sense - they are as near as possible verbatim versions of the originals.The collection and transcription has taken a considerable amount of effort so I am afraid you'll just have to take or leave them, being made available on my terms.

I need to work out how best to make these available, this will be in pdf files as I don't want people to be altering or amending them and different versions starting to float around.

I therefore need next to look into ways of making these files downloadable, using Dropbox or other means, or other wise sending them out on request by email.. I am also thinking that I may keep them in separate documents - AN -Austrian, BN - British, DB - The Netherlands, FN - French, HN - Hessen Darmstadt, PN - Prussian, RN - Russian, and WTN - Wurttemberg - rather than in a single but unwieldy document. I hope to do this in the next couple of days.

As anyone who has followed the link to Marcus Hinton's scrapbook from Stryker's Hinton Hunt Vintage Wargaming Figures blog Marcus Hinton took his research seriously and the painting instructions are useful to collectors and gamers today as they show how he intended his figures to be finished. Hopefully a modern transcription will make them more accessible, usable and hence useful today.

I'll make an announcement here when the transcript(s) is/are available - this will be in a week or ten days. Meanwhile of course the comments system is available if anyone has any suggestions or wants to register their interest.

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Hinton Hunt Painting Instructions: and 1001 posts

Today I have mostly been adding around 60 sets of original Hinton Hunt painting instructions to the blog. The catalogue described these a "for the collector who likes to paint his own figures" and were typescript single sheets of paper. A recent joint purchase of a big Hinton Hunt collection included a large number of these - thanks to John C for scanning these. This is the kind of ephemera which can easily disappear so I am very happy to be able to make them generally available through the blog.

After a little thought I have decided the best thing to do was to add them to individual figure posts. There are now (I think) 139 posts including these instructions - some covered four or five different figures - eg all the foot artillery poses, or 1812 fusiliers.

Searching using the "painting instructions" label will show you which posts now include these. However, I also thought it might be useful to have a list of which figures are covered so I have produced one and attached it below. It goes without saying that if anyone has copies of any further sets of these which are not represented here, I would be very glad to receive them or scans of them for inclusion here.

Although the painting instructions date back to the 1960s Marcus Hinton was a thorough uniform researcher, not least because for his 54mm collectors figures. This is also apparent from his scrapbook. The painting noted for Napoleon, his marshals and generals are particularly interesting.

While going through this exercise I also realised I needed to add a post for FN 304, French Imperial Guard Red Lancer. What I failed to realise was that this made post 1000. So I have missed the millennium, but only just.

FN 304 French Imperial Guard Cavalry Red Lancer of the Guard

No picture of this figure is currently available

Monday, 9 February 2009

Hinton Hunt Painting Instructions: Austrian Napoleonics

Thanks to Ian from the Hinton Hunt Vintage Wargames Figures blog for providing some more original Hinton Hunt painting instructions, this time for some of the Austrian Napoleonic figures. They have been posted below, and also added to the posts for the relevant figures.