Can anyone please identify this figure?

[Willem]

I picked up this half built figure this week-end for almost nothing.

It looks like a 75mm plains indian.

Can anyone:

1) Identify the figure?
2) Who made it and what scale it is?
3) Have a photograph of a completed figure
4) Instructions mentions a shield (missing!) - any photographs of the shield will be great
5) Not a specialist on indians so any and all good references will be welcome

Thanks in advance

Willem

 

[BarrieHynd]

Hello Willem, that looks like a Series77 figure to me. It just seems familiar for some reason. Is there nothing on the underside of the base? ie sculptors initials or name or even company name.
Barrie.

 

[akaryu]

This is an old Ray Lamb figure long ago produced by Hinchliffe, scale around 75mm. A companion figure was of a mounted Indian. If memory serves me right it was produced in the seventies, along with the range of Napoleonics sculpted by Ray for Hinchliffe.
Hope this helps,

Piet

 

[yellowcat]

These are 75 mm figures produced by Hinchliffe Models sculpted by Ray Lamb. Catalog number 75/C3 Plain Indian, squatting beside horse wearing buffalo headress. There is a companion piece #75/C4 Mounted Plains Indian. Both sell for US$34.95 in the early eighties. I might have some pictures some where. I shall look for it.

 

[Guy]

It is a Hinchecliff Model Kit and many of them I built through the 80's and into the 90's. I checked the one I have on the shelf and it does not come with a shield as he is portrayed as a hunter.

 

[yellowcat]

So far I can only find this picture.

 

[BarrieHynd]

Well i was way off with my offering lol.
Barrie.

 

[sippog]

I am about to put both of these two indian figures up on ebay - so thanks for the pictures!
Finding photos of old kits to sell them can be a real problem. (Wish I'd kept those old magazines now)

 

[polyphemus]

David that last photo combines the rider from 75/C4 with the horse from 75/C3.

Geoff

 

[sippog]

David that last photo combines the rider from 75/C4 with the horse from 75/C3. Geoff

Thanks for the info, Geoff.
Yes, I believe the horse is looking straight ahead in my kit. (I actually had a collection of three Hinchcliffe horses I bought at a show but god knows what I've done with them) You're obviously something of an expert on Hinchcliffe - does that mean you might be bidding again?

 

[polyphemus]

David, you never know! I freelanced for Hinchliffe Models a little in the early '80's. The worst thing is that I had very many of their kits but they've all vanished over the years, victims of periodic downsizing I guess.

Geoff