Showing posts with label identification notes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label identification notes. Show all posts

Sunday, 8 March 2015

Identification help please - Hundred Years War cavalry

I have a number of cavalry figures from the Hundred Years War range and Crecy, Poitiers and possibly Agincourt sub ranges. As they carry no code numbers and there are a number of figures with similar descriptions, I have not been able to identify any of them with confidence, If anyone can therfore identify any of the following figures with any authority, I would be very glad to hear from you via comments. The sixth figure down is holding a sword down his side, obscured by the camera angle - sorry!

Thursday, 30 June 2011

Mystery SYW cavalry figures





Thanks to Tony of Prometheus in Aspic, who sent these figures, which had been soldiering on as a Spanish Napoleonic Dragoon Regiment.

Following earlier posts, here and following, I am not much the wiser about identifying the Seven Years War cavalry figures. It seems most likely that these are SYW , and there are two types, distinguished mainly by their saddles.

The personality figure seems most likely to be SYWS 1, Seven Years War general. The second type (photos 3 & 4) have a particularly long saddle cloth, although the effect of this is exaggerated by the lower part of their holsters being painted in the same colours as their horses. As ever, if anyone has any definitive information on these figures, please could you leave a comment.

Saturday, 17 July 2010

Napoleonic Cavalry figure identification notes



I'm trying to identify various S Range Napoleonic cavalry figures. The problem is that the code numbers were embossed on metal tags which went between the figures' feet. Almost always these have been removed, and it is quite hard to tell one lancer or hussar from another. The S Range catalogues were not particularly well illustrated with photographs and sometimes the figure pictured is not always identified.

While I am still struggling with this, one thing which has helped slightly is referring the two pages posted here from the 1978 (later) Minifigs catalogue. In the later (current) range of course the horse furniture is cast on the horse, not the rider as with S Range. Therefore when ordering you need to know what the right horse is. This information from the catalogue can be helpful when trying to identify what troop type and nationality some of the S Range figures are.