Poste Militaire....

[fogie]

What about this one, then...

Mike

 

[Nap]

Is that Lasset ? ...if not give us a clue ..lol

Love that helmet !!

Nap

 

[fogie]

Sculpted by Ray Lamb around 1973 produced by ......

Mike

 

[fogie]

Busy time at this end right now with one thing and another ( holidays beckon - so soon it'll be lots of Renaissance art, cappuccinos,
plus the odd Negroni or two ) Later on in the year though I intend to post details of a very senile character from my display cabinet
which might just be of interest. I'll have to dust him off a bit and generally give him a bit of a medical....meanwhile this grainy old
picture was lifted from an ancient catalogue......

Mike

 

[Merryweather]

He'd upped his game a bit by then, hadn't he?

 

[akaryu]

Sculpted by Ray Lamb around 1973 produced by ......

Mike

That is an old Hinchliffe, there was another German throwing a grenade.

Pierre

 

[fogie]

Indeed it is Pierre. I mentioned in an earlier post that they produced forty-odd figures in this series - mostly
Napoleonic French and British Infantry but amongst them a few different subjects. A lot of them were 'doubles'
or even 'trebles' - essentially the same figure but with different headgear and whatever ( Frank Hinchliffe always
had an eye for marketing ). The figures seem rather dated now, but back in the day they were the result of some
advanced sculpting and a lot of new casting techniques.

Mike

 

[fogie]

He'd upped his game a bit by then, hadn't he?

Not sure I know who you mean....

 

[akaryu]

Indeed it is Pierre. I mentioned in an earlier post that they produced forty-odd figures in this series - mostly
Napoleonic French and British Infantry but amongst them a few different subjects. A lot of them were 'doubles'
or even 'trebles' - essentially the same figure but with different headgear and whatever ( Frank Hinchliffe always
had an eye for marketing ). The figures seem rather dated now, but back in the day they were the result of some
advanced sculpting and a lot of new casting techniques.

Mike

Most of them had very similar, rather big heads, but they were quite a revelation at the time. I still have some in my grey army. Amongst the odd ones I remember, there were two mounted Plains Indians, an Assyrian horseman and an Anatolian infantryman, all in 75mm. And then came the giant Taisho samurai, very complex and very impressive, even after all these years!

Pierre

 

[Merryweather]

Not sure I know who you mean....

Ray Lamb, sorry - referring to the mounted Taisho(drool)

 

[fogie]

Ray Lamb, sorry - referring to the mounted Taisho(drool)

Ah! ... right.....That particular Taisho was sculpted by one Paul Knight - and alas did not even begin to compare with the
original Ray Lamb version of 1973 which I imagine we all recall. In fact, sad to say, the mounted one was composed of
the worst set of castings I have ever seen and required so much corrective work you wouldn't believe !! A lot of significant
surgery was required as well as considerable re-sculpting of several major elements. It took almost as long to re-work as it
did to paint. I'll outline more in the due course .....

Mike

 

[Merryweather]

I bow to your VASTLY superior knowledge
wow!

 

[Ray Stout]

It's an 80mm fig. done by cliff Sanderson, which was never put on General Release, and, I bought it in a Job Lot on a Club visit to Hincliffe in 1978. I only found this out when I entered it at the BMSS Anuals and Cliff himself was very concerned where I'd got it as it was a Private Commission. Ray

 

[Ray Stout]

This was the one sculpted by Ray Lamb, and sold by Hincliffe

 

[yellowcat]

Here is the Taisho by Ray Lamb I painted back in the eighties.

I have in my collection six Taisho on foot plus three mounted. There are two different versions of Taisho. An 1972-73 casting by Hinchcliffe and later 1978 by Calder Craft.
The main differences are some of the Hinchcliffe parts were cast in two pieces (helmet/kabuto and shikoro, left arm and the leg piece). Also be aware some of the right arm and helmet for the Calder Craft may cast as one or two pieces. The Hinchcliffe castings are packed in purple tissue paper and in layers of white foam sheet while the Calder Craft parts are in blister pack with red or blue cardboard. There is also a trade mark logo, copyright and year engrave on one of the foot. They all come with colour assembly instruction. I personally prefer the Calder Craft one mainly of the leg section was casted as one solid piece.

 

[yellowcat]

I have in my collection three Mounted Taisho. I ordered my first Mounted Taisho when it first advertised in Military Modelling. It was delivered nine months later due to some kind of delay. I have no major problem on my casting. The fit of the parts were good. May be it was the first batch of casting.

 

[fogie]

Looking closely at the above pictures reveals to me a very 'rough' looking horse (pitted, poor musculature, so forth) Perhaps they're
stock pictures and you were lucky in your copy of this figure. I definitely drew the short straw with mine. Still... all water under the
bridge now.

 

[Ray Stout]

Your right Mike, considering the same guy did the Gothic Knight before that, the only problem on that was the weight of the metal standard was too much for the joint, so, in time, it drooped, however I solved the problem by using another arm without the flag

 

[Mirofsoft]

Sculpted by Ray Lamb around 1973 produced by ......

Mike

Hinchliffe

 

[Ray Stout]

Microsoft, we're talking about Hincliffe's Mounted Taisho Ray.