A companion to the Hinton Hunter and the Old Metal Detector blogs, dedicated to the first "true 25mm" figures of the Minifigs S Range, produced between 1968 and 1975.
Saturday, 4 April 2009
Neville Dickinson interviewed by Don Featherstone
Thanks to the unfashionably shiny Doug, here is an interview by Don Featherstone with Neville Dickinson, from Battle magazine.
This is brilliant stuff. It is interesting that Donald's interviews so often featured people who had such nice things to say about him. The Gilder interview was similar.
Featherstone is, of course, a very important figure in the history of wargaming. I recall being marginally involved in some brief sabre rattling in about 1979 when DJF gave the Napoleonic Association a bit of a public slating because they were turning out booklets written by what he described as "amateur historians". There was a certain measure of the pots and kettles in this, to be sure, and the writers did include Pete Hofschroer and a few other worthies.
No matter. If it wasn't for Donald I for one would never have got into the hobby, so bless him - a lot of us owe him an awful lot.
It does seem a pity that Miniature Figurines ever had the great idea of replacing the s-range figures with their current garden gnomes.
This site is one of a family of (currently) three blogs for people interested in old 20mm and "true 25mm" wargames figures. The others are the Hinton Hunter (concentrating on Hinton Hunt) and the Old Metal Detector (other manufacturers).
Minifgs S Range figures can be hard to identify with absolute confidence, partly through a lack of contemporary photographic catalogues, partly because the code numbers scratched on the underside of infantry figures' bases may be obscured by later basing or by filing, and because code numbers are not present on cavalry figures, while one Napoleonic Lancer looks very like another.
If you spot any mistakes in the attribution of any of the figures here, or can supply pictures for any of the figures missing them, I would be very glad to hear from you.
Contacting the Lone S Ranger
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1 comment:
This is brilliant stuff. It is interesting that Donald's interviews so often featured people who had such nice things to say about him. The Gilder interview was similar.
Featherstone is, of course, a very important figure in the history of wargaming. I recall being marginally involved in some brief sabre rattling in about 1979 when DJF gave the Napoleonic Association a bit of a public slating because they were turning out booklets written by what he described as "amateur historians". There was a certain measure of the pots and kettles in this, to be sure, and the writers did include Pete Hofschroer and a few other worthies.
No matter. If it wasn't for Donald I for one would never have got into the hobby, so bless him - a lot of us owe him an awful lot.
It does seem a pity that Miniature Figurines ever had the great idea of replacing the s-range figures with their current garden gnomes.
Chaqu'un a son gout.
Tony
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