Brunswick National Contingent

I've brought my Brunswickers down from the loft to photograph the national contingent and here are the Hinton Hunt ones - the S Range, Douglas, Kirk and other figures will appear on the Lone S Ranger and Old Metal Detector blogs.

My regret about the Hinton Hunt Brunswickers are that they are for the Hunrded Days Campaign - not really suitable for my preference of the Peninsula, where the earlier Polrock is preferable - this is where the figures from other manufacturers come into their own. Also Marcus Hinton made Leib Battalion (Guard) and Avant Garde but not line battalion figures.

Moving down the pictures, we have the Duke of Brusnwick, and with infantry, then the Avant Garde (not a Cubist in sight), then more infantry, the hussars, and some pictures of the massed Hinton Hunt forces.

Some of the hussars and some of the firing infantry I bought painted from Terry Wise, so they have a poignant feel to them.

I have a third battalion of unpainted der Kriegspielers waiting to reinforce this contingent.

Mounted figures

Hinton Hunt made two types of mounted figures:

the "horse attached" series, which were one piece castings (OPC) with the horse attached to the rider; these, I think, were the earlier figures

the "dismountable series", which had separate horses. There are fairly extennsive French and British ranges in this series, often of similar types available as OPC figures. The personality figures were dismountable, with some generic generals being OPCs.

On this blog labels starting with "type -" refer to mounted figures, while those starting with "pose -" are foot (infantry and artillery) figures.

You can search for mounted figures by nation, by type, or by series (dismountable or OPC)

Place holders

A number of blog entries state that no picture of this figure is available at present. Blogger shows entries in the order they are created, so these entries are place holders to make sure that you can see the figures of any particular nation in sequence of code numbers.

If you are able to provide a picture of any of these figures (or even better send me a sample figure!) please let me know through the comment feature.

For identification purposes I would prefer to have photographs of unpainted figures, but where there is no such picture a photograph of a painted or undercoated figure would be very welcome.

Identification pictures

Here's a question - do the identification photos need to include both front and rear views?