Re-discovered yesterday ......Phoenix Model Developments

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Just great to see the original sculpts ...recognise the dancing hussar

Pleasure to see the painting as well

All still haves a real charm

Keep the pictures coming everyone

Nap
 
Here you go Brad, Elizabethans. Shown in the 1981 catalogue but dropped from the following one. I’m guessing they just didn’t sell.

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I stil have the Edwardian Picnic Duo, and the married Edwardian couple in Deckchairs, with the man wearing a knotted Handkerchief on his head, and a very snobby wife. Superb figs full of charm which was one of the main attractions, as well as a high Tin content which improved any fine detail. Another classic was the regency gent holding a baby up high, I think it was called "That's My Boy"
 
Nap said:
Hi Ray

Not sure if the site is still valid but ........it says the home of Phoenix
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Yep, that's S&D Miniatures. They got their Phoenix molds from Forty-Third, Ltd, who had acquired them from someone who got them when Phoenix closed, someone in Australia, I believe it was.

John Eden has some, too, along with many of Russell Gammage's Rose Miniatures molds.

Prost!
Brad
 
Ray Stout said:
Another classic was the regency gent holding a baby up high, I think it was called "That's My Boy"
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Yes! That one was shown in the catalog along with the lady holding the little girl by the hand. I've got a couple of those in the stash. I have a plan to do a small shadowbox with the gent as an officer returning home from the campaign in Germany, to see his son for the first time.

I like to look at pictures of the dioramas that Shep Paine did using Phoenix' Georgian figures, too. Like his "Admiralty Board" shadowbox.

I know that we are in a golden age for variety and quality today, with so much talent producing finely cast figures. But I'm nostalgic for these classic ranges. I consider the time when they were the top of the line in our hobby-Phoenix, Rose, Imrie/Risley, Stadden, Sanderson. I can accumulate a lot of them-and I do-and work on larger displays, than if I were to use today's figures, which are really meant as one-offs as far as displaying them is concerned. And which are more expensive by the piece, too.

Prost!
Brad
 
Nap said:
Hi Ray

Not sure if the site is still valid but ........it says the home of Phoenix

This was on it

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Here's some more of my favourites


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Remember the adverts in Mil Modelling with the French grenadier(N2) lunging being on the cover of 1 I think

Nap
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I won the R21 (Napoleon Advancing) at Bugle Call 2019 in the S&D-sponsored vignette class. It's a nice little kit which I'll probably get around-to once I've finished Le Cimier's Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette, which has been in a drawer for longer than I care to remember, and has just managed to claw its way back to the light of day.
Looking at the pictures, I also recognise R16 which also resides somewhere in a similar drawer.
These little gems certainly get around.

Cheers,
Andrew
 
Yep ! those were the days, I remember being asked for the first time being asked to be a judge at the B.M.S.S. Finals. I was really excited, but was soon brought down to earth as I was to judge the "Toy" Bands class. I planned my revenge and the following year, I had a Sanderson figure, the one legged Barman from the Press Gang series. I put a drum on his back symbols on the inside of his knees, a flute round his neck and fashioned a Concertina in his hands, I entered it in the bands class as "Royal Navy Dance Band 1797 !!! Ray
 
Sorry Nap, it's long gone and 2 moving houses ago, but I loved doing that then. I used to call them Animations, not a full conversion but not the straight figure out of the box.It really pissed off the officials in BMSS as no one had ever done it before i.e. put a modelled figure in a Toys class.
 
the Phoenix brand was one of the pioneers in the 80's figurine world, I still have (I think) a few pieces of this brand that I still have to paint. Thank you for this memory and your sharing

la marque Phoenix était un des pionnier dans le monde de la figurine des années 80 , il me reste encore ( je pense ) quelques piece de cette marque que je doit encore peindre . Merci pour ce souvenir et ton partage
 
Ray Stout said:
Sorry Nap, it's long gone and 2 moving houses ago, but I loved doing that then. I used to call them Animations, not a full conversion but not the straight figure out of the box.It really pissed off the officials in BMSS as no one had ever done it before i.e. put a modelled figure in a Toys class.
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Hi Ray

Animations ...like that ! .....bet the higher echelons were unimpressed ......I mean for goodness sake .....the Toys class ....lol

Alexandre said:
the Phoenix brand was one of the pioneers in the 80's figurine world, I still have (I think) a few pieces of this brand that I still have to paint. Thank you for this memory and your sharing

la marque Phoenix était un des pionnier dans le monde de la figurine des années 80 , il me reste encore ( je pense ) quelques piece de cette marque que je doit encore peindre . Merci pour ce souvenir et ton partage
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Agree there Alexandre if you find the ones you have do share the pictures

Nap
 

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