What's on your workbench?

[Buff Orpington]

This week I am mostly making a dungeon. Nothing too Fritzl, you understand. the postie delivered the MDF dungeon starter kit from Figurebitz as I was packing the car for Ayton so I brought it with me.

[Paul]

I might base the "heros" on 25mm circular bases. Every unit will be commanded by one.

This was my thought.
Any identifiable figures (and officers etc....) get put on the single bases. Have to be careful to leave enough 'bog standard' singles for casualty removal though!

[Ilkley Old School]

More Hinton Hunt with a few Alberkens. Artillery pieces are I think from Warrior.





Mark

[Jeremy]

Late Romano Britons for Dux Britaniarum. A mixture of Footsore for the Big Men and Gripping Beast plastics for the masses

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

More Hinton Hunt with a few Alberkens. Artillery pieces are I think from Warrior.

Wow, Alberken - now there's a name from the past; and based in that hotbed of wargaming innovation - Newark. Minifigs before they were Minifigs, if I'm not mistaken? And wasn't Peter Gilder part of the original team?

Very rare, back then at least, to have that much variety in an artillery crew - I count 8 different poses (and genuinely distinct, not just the same figure given different tools). Although that's obviously from two manufacturers, but they match up well.

[Ilkley Old School]

My very first metal figures were Alberken/20mm Minifigs. I used to cycle 20 miles round trip to BMW Models in Haydons Rd Wimbledon to buy the figures.

Nowadays you just order without moving from the settee. No more effort than ordering a takeaway Pizza. There is none of the excitement of buying new toys.

Perhaps that is why I like tracking down old Hinton Hunts and other such figures. Its fun.

As far as I know Peter Gilder was involved in Alberken/early Minifigs and there is a lot of similarities to Hinton Hunt figures.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Good grief - that was my local model shop! I lived in New Malden (near Kingston), but went to school in Wimbledon. They only sold Hinchliffe's back then, though.

[Ilkley Old School]

I lived in Ham between Richmond and Kingston and went to school in Sheen.

I was originally from Wimbledon Park just up the road from Haydons Rd. You can probably guess which football team I support.

I was visiting BMW models late 60s or perhaps early 70s.

There also used to be a small shop in Kingston originally called "Regimental" and it later became Games Unlimited.

[Essex Boy]

I'm far to young to remember the 60s and 70s......................

Lovely stuff, Mark.

E

[Jeremy]

I'm far to young to remember the 60s and 70s......................

Lovely stuff, Mark.

E

What, after the birth of Christ you mean?