It's the first shop I visited in England introduced there by Mr Hoyos and I found the shop the size of a supemarket compared to la Heaumerie ... but... I remember a shop in London, not the name, selling only wargames figures, situated under a railway bridge, just enough room for 2/3 customers at the time (when 3 it was very difficult to close the door ), shelves on all the walls, the seller behind his desk with a long perch to pick the boxes on the shelves above and behind your head not moving from his desk
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It's the first shop I visited in England introduced there by Mr Hoyos and I found the shop the size of a supemarket compared to la Heaumerie ... but... I remember a shop in London, not the name, selling only wargames figures, situated under a railway bridge, just enough room for 2/3 customers at the time (when 3 it was very difficult to close the door ), shelves on all the walls, the seller behind his desk with a long perch to pick the boxes on the shelves above and behind your head not moving from his desk
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We have a bakery like that here in St.Ives ... ( Close quarters on 'Pasty' day ! )
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Anyone remember this Norman Errington figure? (see my Avatar) It looked fine from this angle, but, turn it sideways, and it has no girth at all!! I think it was a Paris Guard. They also did a ECW Trooper, and a foot figure of a Scot's Grey, all with the same problem!
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I assume that it's not supposed to be a flat or demi-ronde figure ... but something that's, shall we say, rather 'squashed'.
In my experience that happened a lot. Back in the day Greenwood and Ball, Lasset, Sanderson, et al, each produced 'iffy'
stuff from time to time. ( By today's standards, ALL the time
!! ) I suppose that with old vulcanised rubber moulds
and hot metal whizzing about inside a centrifuge distorted them or something.
Mike
In my experience that happened a lot. Back in the day Greenwood and Ball, Lasset, Sanderson, et al, each produced 'iffy'
stuff from time to time. ( By today's standards, ALL the time
!! ) I suppose that with old vulcanised rubber mouldsand hot metal whizzing about inside a centrifuge distorted them or something.
Mike
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No Mike, I just think it was a design fault on the Sculpting, as all 3 of them were the same, and, they passed as OK figures at the time. The main thing is, you HAD to be a good painter to make them look good in those days. I'd love to see a Competition class at some show for "Classic Figures" just to see how today's painters tackle inferior subjects. Any Takers out there??
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Trouble is old chap a painter, no matter how good he is, can't hide poor sculpting or casting - silk purse...sow's ear so forth.
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Encounter in the swap by Phoenix Models Developments sculpted by Tim Richards. I painted this one back in the early eighties.
I thought I'd seen some of these before:-
https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/remembering-1971.116173/#post-929172
Cheers,
Andrew
https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/remembering-1971.116173/#post-929172
Cheers,
Andrew
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Beautifully painted and a typical example of Tim Richards' stuff at the time. ( Although I must tell you, that when it was first introduced, I used
to call this one 'The Girl with Three Heads' !! )
Mike
to call this one 'The Girl with Three Heads' !! )
Mike
Yes I painted all those figures and the garde de Paris but I don't remember any problem, alas at that time I had not so much money, so I sold a lot of them to buy new ones but not the same, thinking they would still be always available later ...
I see Series 77 in sone of the pictures
Nap
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Is it a Al Charles sculpt ?
If not ask me another ..lol
Be great if any members had painted versions they have done they share them
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