The Loose Association of Wargamers

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.

MarshalNey wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 8:35 pm 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!

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





Mark

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

Ilkley Old School wrote: ↑Thu May 10, 2018 12:26 pm 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Lovely stuff, Mark.

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Essex Boy wrote: ↑Thu May 10, 2018 5:41 pm I'm far to young to remember the 60s and 70s......................

Lovely stuff, Mark.

E

What, after the birth of Christ you mean?