Intended as a resource to help identify vintage wargames figures before posting them more publicly on the Hinton Hunter, Old Metal Detector, or Lone S Ranger blogs
Hi Uwe - again, waht John said about it. I am a bit intrigued beacuse it is officially S Range yet is a one piece casting - I wonder if there were other S Range figures which were OPC? I was thinking putting up some of the generals/marshals - I definitely have a couple of the Neys with the name scratched on the base, can't remember if I have any others - must check.
Clive, Finally worked my way through registration... Yes the original S range cavalry were OPC. Later Neville Dickinson came up with the revolutionary idea of saving wargamers money by casting horses seperately so that - in the words of an early Minifigs ad - you could simply swap your riders as and when you required them. I once bought about 300 assorted S and PB ancient cavalry off a bloke in Scotland and he only had 70 horses all of which had blobs of plasticene on the back. He said that was all the horses he'd ever needed...
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Minifigs S-Range. Loyalist Queens rangers, AWI 1780.
http://www.srcalifornia.com/uniforms/p43.htm
Hi Uwe - again, waht John said about it. I am a bit intrigued beacuse it is officially S Range yet is a one piece casting - I wonder if there were other S Range figures which were OPC? I was thinking putting up some of the generals/marshals - I definitely have a couple of the Neys with the name scratched on the base, can't remember if I have any others - must check.
Cheers
Clive
Minifig AWIC 2s Queen's Ranger
like Clive i've a few Minifig type 1 piece castings be interesting if someone comes up with a listing
cheers old john
Clive,
Finally worked my way through registration...
Yes the original S range cavalry were OPC. Later Neville Dickinson came up with the revolutionary idea of saving wargamers money by casting horses seperately so that - in the words of an early Minifigs ad - you could simply swap your riders as and when you required them. I once bought about 300 assorted S and PB ancient cavalry off a bloke in Scotland and he only had 70 horses all of which had blobs of plasticene on the back. He said that was all the horses he'd ever needed...
Harry
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