A blog for those interested in identifying vintage Hinton Hunt 20 mm wargames figures.
Where possible identification photos will be of unpainted figures.
You know, it was the bulk purchase rates that did for me. If I remember they were half price so a fiver would buy a hundred pieces.
I spent days working out 20 Guard and 40 line and ten red lancers but how many artillery and where would the Swiss fit in and what were these yellow coated figures about?
Then when it was done I would have a crisis and replan for Norman Conquest. In the end I never sent for any figures and spent that long cherished fiver on beer. Probably Watneys Red Barrel. How true that youth is wasted on the young.
John
PS can we have a shot of the giant paperclip next , please?
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King Darius on his portable throne
Searching
For the Napoleonic range there are now four main ways to search this blog for the figure you are looking for.
If you can read the first part of the code number of a figure, you can search using codes.
If you know or think you know the nationality of the figure, you can search by nation.
If you are looking for a foot figure (infantry or artillery), you can search by pose.
If you are looking for a mounted figure, you can search by type.
For smaller ranges (American Civil War and Medieval) there is a simpler search - by range (ACW or Medieval) and then by foot, mounted or artillery figures.
There have been a number of people who have been an inspiration in pursuing this hobby and getting this project off the ground.
I couldn't have got started properly myself without the Vintage 20 mil site created by Richard and Harry .
Pierre Omidyar invented e-bay in 1995 and so has been responsible for my haemorrhaging money for the last few years.
I would like to thank fellow e-bay buyers who have made prices for Hinton Hunt items so high on e-bay that I have mainly stopped haemorrhaging money and am very tempted to start selling instead of buying.
A group of fellow collectors and enthusiasts have offered help, support, comments, figures, words of wisdom, or even sold me figures - among them Alan, Dick, Harry, Ian, Iain, Jim, John, Peter, Tony, Uwe and Will. If I have missed you off you know who you are (and I have obviously forgotten).
Thanks to those who have joined in the joint purchase of a number of large collections and who have passed on the opportunities for these.
And not really for this blog, thanks to those who are buying up the moulds for a number of lovely old 20mm ranges (other than Hinton Hunt) and will be bringing them into production soon.
2 comments:
Ah ! how cheap figures seemed in those days ! . However in 1970 I was on take home pay of £5 a week , so maybe thing have evened out ?.
Wonderful, straight back to 1969.
You know, it was the bulk purchase rates that did for me. If I remember they were half price so a fiver would buy a hundred pieces.
I spent days working out 20 Guard and 40 line and ten red lancers but how many artillery and where would the Swiss fit in and what were these yellow coated figures about?
Then when it was done I would have a crisis and replan for Norman Conquest. In the end I never sent for any figures and spent that long cherished fiver on beer. Probably Watneys Red Barrel. How true that youth is wasted on the young.
John
PS can we have a shot of the giant paperclip next , please?
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