Help with Identification

[Billy Dickinson]

Been delving in the stash..I got this guy back in the 70s/80s. He's 54mm and he's been lurking around reminding me I should have painted him ... but with Hussar firmly soldered to his steed, at the time seemed a bit of an impossible task for a lad starting off in miniature painting at the time. As you can see time and weight has taken its toll, requiring the horse to be shored up with brass rod and the resultant damage to the horses off hind leg. I think .. please somebody correct me if I'm wrong ... that its was produced by a guy called Barry Minot / Mignot. Its been so long I can't remember ..


Billy..

 

[arj]

You're correct in your thinking Billy.
It is a Barry Minot.
I found this photo HERE (just scroll down towards the bottom of the page). ...

It shows an Andrea and a Barry Minot Chasseurs a Cheval de la Garde (the Minot looks like your figure).

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[Nap]

Nice find Billy certainly looks like the picture Andrew posted

Must be 35 years old at least

Be nice to see it painted as well

Nap

 

[ivopreda]

the figure looks like an old Minot figure. 54 mm with stability problems... as clearly visible from the pin.

it's an early 80es figure

it's a gem to be collected but not painted... for my point of view

 

[Billy Dickinson]

Hi Andrew and Nap…

The Hussar is soldered to the horse and thought if I can’t separate the two then its going to make painting difficult, but as your link shows Andrew, it is possible… Thanks for this, much appreciated . Just a shame time has taken its toll on the figure, but I guess that’s as much my fault as anything else…
Cheers both
Billy

 

[Billy Dickinson]

Thanks Ivopreda.. It is gem indeed and for the time is very well sculpted..
Cheers
Billy

 

[yellowcat]

You can put the whole figure in hot boiling water. If it is solder together by low melt solder chances are it will come apart.

 

[winfield]

In the late 70's I got a Minot figure of a Napoleonic cuirassier being pulled from his horse by a British infantryman. The head on the horse was almost identical to that on this one. I think it is a Minot.

 

[Mirofsoft]

Bought that one in the 70ies ( Minot )
Don(t stand on his legs . Absoluteky needed the rod ....

 

[Billy Dickinson]

Thanks guys.. I know its all relative, but look at those prices way back when . Thanks Mirofsoft

 

[Ray Stout]

Your pics remind me of ALL the figs that were on display at Under Two Flags. The white powder deposits on the figure being the metal oxidising. Ray