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.
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
AWI 5s Georgia Infantryman Advancing
These are front and rear views of this figure.
Tunis is a single converted figure I have whose tricorne has been transformed into a round flat brimmed hat.
6 comments:
Jim Walkley
said...
Hello I have a figure with AWI5S scratched on the base which is similar to this one but with a tricorn. Perhaps a later version? I also have some of the Mass Light infantry and would like to send a(poor) photo but don't use Outlook. Any suggestions? I enjoy reading your blog. Regards Jim
Oh dear! Sorry, but now you are talking a foreign language to me:-). I think I will take the photos and work out a way of sending them to you. I may know soembody who has a photobucket account. Jim
If you have access to another e-mail programme and can send it as an attachment you can send it to me using the e-mail link under Contacting Vintage Wargaming on the menu across the top of the blog home page
Sorry. Still having problems getting through. If I send you my email address in a comment would I be right to assume that you needn't publish the comment so that all and sundry don't see my address. You could then send me an email and I could reply attaching the photos. Jim
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.
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6 comments:
Hello
I have a figure with AWI5S scratched on the base which is similar to this one but with a tricorn. Perhaps a later version? I also have some of the Mass Light infantry and would like to send a(poor) photo but don't use Outlook. Any suggestions?
I enjoy reading your blog.
Regards
Jim
Jim, do you have a photobucket or picasa account? If so I can give you a web address where you could post the photo .
Oh dear! Sorry, but now you are talking a foreign language to me:-). I think I will take the photos and work out a way of sending them to you. I may know soembody who has a photobucket account.
Jim
If you have access to another e-mail programme and can send it as an attachment you can send it to me using the e-mail link under Contacting Vintage Wargaming on the menu across the top of the blog home page
Sorry. Still having problems getting through. If I send you my email address in a comment would I be right to assume that you needn't publish the comment so that all and sundry don't see my address. You could then send me an email and I could reply attaching the photos.
Jim
Yes Jim that should work
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