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)

Hinton Hunt infantry ranges

A standard Hinton Hunt infantry range contains five figure types:

• officer charging
• private charging
• private firing (this is a standing fire pose)
• officer marching
• private marching

There may be other figures (colour bearers, musicians, separate musket figures etc) but most infantry types have these common elements.

Why oh why oh why...

Not an attempt to prise sponsorship from the Daily Mail, but why would anyone want to start a blog to help identify old Hinton Hunt wargames figures? Two reasons really - I have been collecting these figures for three or four years. The original castings had code numbers engraved on the underside of the base which could be checked against the original catalogue or the list given on the Vintage 20 mil site. Unfortunately, given the ravages of the years, the vigorous filing often required to level the moulding plugs on a figures base to enable them to stand up, previous basing onto lino with tar, or simply layers of Humbrol paint, it was often very-difficult-to- impossible to identify figures with confidence.

Then a few weeks ago I acquired a strange collection of original Hinton Hunt foot figures from the Napoleonic range, each identified on a sticker on the underside of their (filed flat) bases. There was one each of around 80% of the foot figures in the range, and were clearly at some time a shop's display stock or reference group for filling orders. So I thought why not...

A bit of thinking, a bit of trying things out, some sounding out of some other collectors, a purchase of paint shop pro photo x2 and a lunge into blogging has led me to think I might as well just start and see what happens.

I hope people might be able to identify mystery figures here; realise they already have some figures they have been looking for for years, and send in pictures of unidentified figures or ones missing from the catalogue to be built up here. Really, it is just something I wish had been around when I started collecting.

If this sounds interesting, why not book mark the site and come back to it from time to time to see if anything interesting has turned up.

I can claim only a little knowledge, a bit more enthusiasm and some knowledgeable contacts. Hopefully, this blog may unearth a bit more of all these.