As I've mentioned, once the tree goes up I lose access to my painting desk. So this lot are probably the last lot of figures I'll get finished this year. As it is, I only painted the horses - the riders were bought ready painted. I don't know whether it happens today, but back in the early 70s 'S' Range and early PB riders were moulded with saddles attached and the horses were were bare backed - so quite a few people would only buy a few horses and just swap the riders for the battle they were fighting. So these days I buy some riders that never had their 'own' horses - happily, Garrison horses usually do the job!
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| Figures in pretty good condition though one has lost his plum,e (me being ham fisted!) |
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| Simple paintwork - personally, I don't think I could ever leave the shields that plain! |
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| Bit blurred, but still shows that the Garrison horse is a reasonable fit. I didn't bother touching up the paintwork on the riders - it isn't really all that noticeable on the table. |
Nice - yes they are good fit - possibly better than the original! Because of that thing where early 'S' and PBC riders have the saddle cloths on the man (rather than on the horse) I have no end of cavalry that have either 'two' saddlecloths or none at all - I don't think Minifigs either managed to change-over both at the same time!
ReplyDeleteMinifigs were a disaster area in terms of figure codes. I honestly don't know how many different S Range hoplites existed. I have mentioned in the past how an order to Minifigs was filled with 5 different figures for the same code... though one of them was just the wrong figure... and the changeover from original S Range to PB S Range (original PB figures were coded S)... interesting in the Chinese definition.
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