Hinchliffe Models and figures....

[Willz the Wargamer]

I am with you on that one some of the lots I think I like half the figures but the other half are only fit for the melting pot of doom. I wonder if its Ian's way of getting rid of stuff that probably would not sell.
Still I wish him luck with his sale, to ponder now is should I buy some of his Hinchclife stuff just in case the range disappears or move aboard?


Willz.

[tim.w]

I used to visit the preveous owner of Hinchliffe who lived very near to me in Thornton le Dale. He ran the production in his shed at the bottom of the garden where he had his N gauge trains set up too. I'd love to aquire the business but currently don't have anywhere to put it. Still working towards our forever home.

[grizzlymc]

If I had the money or the talent, I'd love to resurrect the Napoleonics line, I rather liked them, particularly the heavy cavalry.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

I wonder if its Ian's way of getting rid of stuff that probably would not sell.

I've often had that feeling from the way he mixes clearly incompatible figures - and even massively different basing styles - within a unit. As a collector of 2nd Generation ECW/TYW Minifigs, I have often offered him good prices for half the bases in a unit and he has never yet agreed. A few times I ended up buying two units, and then selling the unwanted half of each back to him as a single (and sometimes actually more coherent) unit, but it just became ridiculously expensive with all the postage etc.

[Vintage Wargaming]

I’ve had some very good deals from him for unpainted figures - in particular a huge dirt cheap lot of metal ACW SSMs - and also occasional things I couldn’t find anywhere else (Lamming Boudicca and British chariots) but I got so fed up with his endless tatty painted lots, often in very poor condition, that I stopped looking at the Table Top/Historicals on eBay