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British Fusiliers A comparison showing the slimmer minifig figure and a Hinton Hunt Officer.
Posted by Mark Dudley at 06:18 6 comments: Labels: 20mm, Hinton Hunt., Napoleonic

Sunday, 23 July 2017

Basing Classic Napoleonics

I am using 24 figure Infantry battalions and 12 for  cavalry.

First up is the Nassau bttn deployed in line. 

A skirmish unit is 2 bases in pairs and 2 singly. 

Posted by Mark Dudley at 07:42 5 comments: 

Refurbished Westphalians They had looked like this. Posted by Mark Dudley at 04:03 6 comments: Labels: 20mm, Hinton Hunt., Minifigs, Napoleonic

Saturday, 15 July 2017

Oxfam Provides more Hinton Hunts

A few days ago a friend of mine told me that my local Oxfam had some painted  Napoleonic Wargame figures for sale.

Not expecting much I dropped in thus morning. Apparently a local figure collector have recently passed away and his family had passed the collection to Oxfam. Most of the figures had been sold off.  I was however able to buy 86 painted figures for just short of £ 62. They look to be original Hinton Hunts.

The figures are reasonably well painted but do have a bit of varnish yellowing particularly on the white. After cleaning up I will do a small amount of paint refurbishing, mostly on the white, and a fresh coat of Gloss Varnish.

First is a Duchy of Warsaw unit of 28 figures. All the figures have had the underside of bases filed down but as you can see here there is evidence of the original Hinton Hunt markings still showing. Next up a unit of Nassau Infantry consisting if 24 figures. These are nice and include knots and braiding on the trousers. There were also 2 units if French. Firstly 18 Voltigeur types including 6 Officers.  8 of them are the classic firing figure. And finally a unit of 16 French (12 infantry and 4 Officers). I am pleased to get these as I already have a few FN5 French Infantry and with these I can make up a full 24 figure unit. The only thing missing from all these units are standard bearers so I will either have to convert some or get some of John Cunningham's recast range.

Not bad for a Saturday morning shopping.

Posted by Mark Dudley at 05:47 12 comments: 
Saturday, 8 July 2017

More Reinforcements

Following my last post regarding  Minifig 20mm Voltigeur figures I was contacted Stryker (Ian). He had 6 Minifig Elites spare and would I like them. The generosity of Hinton Hunter aficionados is surprising into today's world.

Yesterday the postman delivered a small package. Its with some excitement that I opened the package to find in side 6 painted Minifigs elites painted, as far as I can see, as Westphalians.

The painting is almost certainly vintage as the gloss varnish shows signs of yellowing. However rather than stripping these chaps I think I will do a paint restoration and use them as an independent company of Light Infantry. Ian also mentioned that we had sent something extra. Well I can say I was surprised to find he had sent me 4 of my original HH figures that I had transferred  to Ians service a decade ago. These figures still had my original paint job. This now causes me a dilemma. Do I  use these as the cadre for a new Swiss unit and purchase extra figures from Johns recast and recreate the 3rd Swiss. That means I will have to paint my Minifig Voltigeurs as something else - perhaps a Light Infantry unit
Posted by Mark Dudley at 03:42 6 comments: 
Saturday, 1 July 2017

Early Minifig 20mm Napoleonic

This morning I sorted through my 20mm Napoleonic figures and selected a unit of French early 20mm French Voltigeurs advancing (FN16) and 2 Voltigeur Officers (FN25).

I bought these figures from BMW Models , Haydons Rd in Wimbledon back in 1971 ish.
I had painted these in white and used them as Austrians. At 9 o'clock this morning they looked like this. A bleach bath was made used full strength bleach from a local retailer. At 17:30 they were removed from the bleach, using rubber gloves, and scrubbed with an old tooth brush. As you can see only a little paint has survived the process and the figures have come out unscathed. These figures are clearly based on Hinton Hunt figures however these castings are  far cleaner with very little flash.

My plan is although these are Voltigeurs to paint them up as 3rd Swiss. My original Hinton Hunt Swiss unit was transferred to Stryker service many years ago.

As I only have 22 of these figures I will use a Douglas Voltigeur standard bearer and sapper to bring the unit up to full strength. As you can see they mix ok.

Posted by Mark Dudley at 10:35 5 comments: