27th May 2003

British

• 100HBC03,04, 05 WW1 British infantry - Palestine campaign Here we have a squad of more troops (24mm) ready for action, all wearing shorts and pith helmets for the desert conditions. We have an officer advancing with pistol held above his head waving the troops on. His troops consist of advancing with lewis gun held level at waist, plus 5 others armed with rifles with bayonet. Their poses are running with rifle held horizontal, standing with rifle held horizontal, loading reaching for ammo in pouch, loading pulling back bolt on rifle, and standing throwing grenade. The figures, while simple, all ooze personality.
• All 11 of above painted
• WW1 Bitish HMG - Palestine Campaign (2) Here we have a kit cast on a large textured base. Onto the base is sculpted the legs of the sitting machine gunner, plus the whole of the body of the lying ammo man, plus his rifle. The machine gun comes in three pieces being the gun and one leg, the other two legs, and an ammunition belt. The gunners upper body is another piece, and the loader's head is the last. Assembly is a breeze and the combination has plenty of charm. Assembled (minus belt feed)
• Naval Landing Party c1900

Civilians

• 1920's women (4) This set consists of 4 ladies (29mm) from the 1920's era, all based on the same pose of standing casually with left foot forward. Variants are short hair with left hand on hip, right arm cocked holding a cigarette. She wears a short sleeveless dress with a second waist length slip over it. Variant two has the same dress style with a neckerchief. Her right arm is also cocked and her hand appears to be fiddling with the neckerchief. Her hair is in a bob style. She also wears a fedora type hat. Variant 3 wears a rather large wrap around coat with chunky fur trim (or maybe a stole) and very baggy sleeves. A neckerchief is just visible at the throat. Her hair is short as per varaint 1. Variant 4 stands with hands on hips. She has short wavy hair under a chunky 'bandage' around her head. She wears a multi layered outfit composed of flat and wavy material. All girls are neat and pleasant with an austere sort of look except the last who looks a bit more approachable (!)
• Evil cultists - traditional western style cultists in long cowls 7 variants

Germans

• (missed scan) One figure, running along holding rifle horizontal. He has all the usual bits, but something bout his posing feels wrong. The top half is reasonable, but I get the feeling the legs are abit out of proportion, maybe a little too long, and bent a little too much. The way he holds the rifle also seems wrong, or at least uncomfortable. Generally the figure is pretty good, and the sculptor certainly has promise. He has a cast on base. Eye height about 30mm.
• German Grenadier - 1 variant
• The Dog That Started the War - I got no ide what this is about, but that's what it is labelled . Here we have a large exaggerated poodle, in this pose the dogs eyes are 20mm above the ground. He has a good dog face, and the transition from fluff to shaved is good. It's a definate HE. The handler (29mm) is a cartoony German, very round at the belly tapering to a tiny prussian hat. He wears tiny glass. His sword scabbard is separate, and fits on his left side to a belt just made for it. Cute and cartoony, but no idea of its use.

Ghurkas

• 100HBC01 Ghurka infantry (4) Eye height 25mm 2 basic poses with 2 variants of each. Both are advancing, one rifle up, the other rifle down. The variants are in the amount of packs on their back. They have the 303 rifle, soft hat, bandolier, kukri, bayonet. The faces are suitable and the poses quite nice.
• 100HBC02 Ghurka Infantry2 (4) Eye height 25mm 4 variants in 2 pairs. One pair runs at full steam, left leg almost vertical, right leg bent and lifted back. His right hand is held over his head with the kukri, the left arm bent at the elbow so the pistol is held forward horizontal. The second pair are advancing slowly, left leg forward, right arm held down across the body with the kukri, the left hand held down at knee level holding his rifle horizontal. They all wear boots, banded gaiters, shirt, soft hat, bandolier, canteen, scabbard and pouch. The variant in each pair is either long pants, or culottes. For the obscurity of the subject matter, the posing is a little unique, but certainly not bad. Casting, animation and sculpting is good.

Portugese (colonial era)

• Infantry - 4 variants
• Infantry - 4 more variants exactly the same but with blanket roll

Russian Civil War

• Mounted Officer
• MG and crew - elevation view
• Tchanka - MG on horse drawn cart - 3 horses

Turks

• Infantry (10)
• Heavy Machine gun and 2 crew - assembled 7 Pieces, being base with sandbags attached, gunner, loader, ammo cannister, gun base, gun legs, gun barrel.