"Famous Figures on Your Table?" Topic

Linear A have released a set of Hittite King Mursili that I want – hang the expense!

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Inspired by seeing this set, I got to wondering:

How many historical personalities do people have lurking in their collections?

Kings, generals, explorers, politicians, pirates, emperors, admirals, outlaws — whatever scale or period. Sci-Fi & Fantasy notables welcome!

To stop this turning into a catalogue, perhaps limit it to, say, five favourites?

One of mine is a very old & a bit battered Hinton Hunt Prince Rupert figure, complete with his famous "devil-dogge" Boy.
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I suspect some very obscure personalities are about to emerge…

Extra credit if the sculpt is older than some TMP members.

A bunch and almost too many to name. My oldest is probably Charles the Bold in 15mm which I painted in 1988 and it's from a defunct line Swords & Soldiers.

the apocryphal one-man-army Viking at Stamford Bridge
小野田 寛郎 (Hiroo Onoda)
Josephine Baker
Aleksandra Grigoryevna Samusenko
Virginia Hall

Honorable Mention from the sf/fantasy category:
Tuco Benedicto Pacífico Juan María Ramírez
Snake Plissken
Master Blaster
Aunty Entity
Hawk and Chick

Top characters (without extensive catalogue), all in 15mm DBA armies:

Boudicca.
Charlemagne (foot and mounted).
Eleanor of Aquitaine.
The Black Prince (and all of the knights in his army, including the fictional arms of Sir Wm. Thatcher).

I'm guessing the Josephine Baker miniature is not wearing a banana skirt (and little else). Who makes this figure?

Winston Churchill during the Boer War.

King Arthur
Richard Nixon
The Earp brothers
Doc Holliday

@ Grattan. I have to ask: in what game do you use a Richard Nixon figure?

The Captain from the Salvation Army Exercise Kangaroo 1981. He, his Landrover and "The Hop in sign" with Kangaroo logo regularly appear on the Battlefield offering brews and bikkies to the troops!
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Allan

Me.
At a convention, someone was there with a 3D scanner, taking scans. Gorgeous Booth Babes, by the way.
So they sent me a print of meself as a Pennsylvania Continental general.

I don't know about "historical", but I have about 8 Long John Silvers.
But I do have 2 Blackbeards and 1 Lt Maynard.
2 Joseph Brant.

George Washington? I lost count.

Hinchliffe 25mm Alexander the Great, Prince Rupert and several other ECW commanders, and in 20mm a hatful of Hinton Hunt Napoleonic French personalities plus a few Brits. Most of these date to the late 70s.
My oldest is probably a Minifigs Mythical Earth Saruman (never actually sold under that name for copyright reasons) and my newest is Games Workshop Treebeard.

Does all the figs from MP & the Holy Grail count?

Pierre for War and Peace behind the Grand Redoubt comes to mind.

Korvessa – of course!

My favorites? I have a rather grumpy looking Hannibal, and two Rommels (one desert, one temperate) who come out a surprising amount plus a very superior looking Charles de Gaulle who stands in for any senior French officer but generally causes a certain amount of hilarity whenever he is lurking around.

A scowling Napoleon at Waterloo in 28mm by the Perry Brothers. In 40mm I have Grant, Lee, Jackson and Reynolds.

James Wolfe and Frederick the Great, 15mm Friekops15

Gunny Sergeant Frank Thomas 28mm, Empress Miniatures.

At first I didn't realize how many I had. So here's the top three.

I'm guessing the Josephine Baker miniature is not wearing a banana skirt (and little else). Who makes this figure?

Bad Squiddoo

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I have GHQ's 10mm Abe Lincoln, he comes with Gen. Mead

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I have a few Minifigs Hannibaals, and lots of Scipios which I use as cavalry officers for both Romans and Carthaginians.

One Zenobia, still unpainted.

I also have three Airfix Friar Tucks, and three Maid Marion's. I don't seem to have three Robin Hoods, though. And the three Sherriffs of Nottingham have been repurposed as Roman civilians.

Not really. Most of the commanders are based on historical counterparts, but only those who are really interested in a period would recognise their names. So no Fred 2, Daun, Saltykov or Broglie for the SYW. No Monty, Horrocks or Wittman for 1944 ETO. No Grant, Jackson, Lee or Mac for the ACW, though I suppose Early may qualify as a "Name"? Part of it is my preferred games usually no larger than divisional level.

Converted a 15mm Minifig to be the one-armed Lord Raglan of Crimean fame.

Not historical but currently painting Loral&Hardy and Beau Guste figures for FFL game next month.

FPW command stands include Minifigs commanders

In 28mm

Frederick the Great (no surprise, I guess)
Maurice of Anhalt-Dessau (of Leuthen fame)
His dad Léopold I de Anhalt-Dessau (der Alte Dessauer)
Prince Charles of Lorraine
Major General William Kingsley (commanded a brigade at Minden)
General William Fermor (Russian SYW general, for those of you who don't share my passion for powdered wigs and laced tricornes, commanded at Zorndorf)

I have a mini of Ney that I should paint up and I did a figure of Napoleon crossing the St. Bernard Pass (the Foundry mini based on the painting by David) that I gave to the young chap in our group who does Napoleonics in 6mm (I do mine in 6mm)

I have a figure of Davout in 6mm but that was not painted up to quite the same standard as my SYW generals

Plenty from all periods and of course a few Conans by various manufacturers! In addition I have my Panzer from BAOR 86-88!

Tally Ho!

Too many to list and all are younger than I.

Lots!
Julius Caesar, Trajan, Boudicca, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Davy Crockett, Teddy Roosevelt, Young Winston Churchill, Old Winston Churchill, Zenobia, Catherine the Great, Hedy Lamarr, Fightin' Bob La Follette, Elvis, Houdini, Napoleon of course, Marshal Ney, Wellington, Geronimo, Robert Bruce, Richard Lion-Heart, Joan of Arc -- just off the top of my head. Also a Mussolini and a couple of Hitlers (they make great targets for pulp/espionage games).

Ochoin,

I have the game Atomic Cafe from Brigade Games. In it Nixon is president for life and has his body guards as a unit for the game.

A friend who I've lost touch with at one time had 15 15mm Napoleons. Probably more by now. Unique manufacturers.

You know, mostly not many. Of course, what would be the point in 6mm and 2mm? A few prominent generals in 28mm horse and musket--mostly too high up the chain of command for my modest forces, and my Ren/fantasy figures don't even have that except of a Henry VIII in honor of my Tudor freak wife.

But in SF, I went to town, and any diplomatic function would include Kosh, Londo Molari, Princess Leia and the Grand Nagus among others. (Federation, Klingon and Imperial officers all dine at Rixx'. Bounty hunters, scruffy nerf-herding smugglers and time lords are cash only at the bar, and the dancers divide between Orions and Twileks.)

Hmph. And can anyone point me toward a plausible short, stocky Barayaran senior officer in a dress uniform, or a female redhead in Betan Survey Service tans? (I'm not letting that so-called "Admiral Naismith" and his mercenaries anywhere near the place.)

Hedy, not Hedly Lamar? I would like to see that one. In 28mm my top five would be Basil II, Alexius I Komnenus, Bohemund of Taranto, Raymond of Toulouse, and Salah ad-Din. I haven't got Baldwin IV painted yet. Along with many others still awaiting a paint job, basing, and display.
Facebook pic of the man himself; Basil II
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" A few prominent generals in 28mm horse and musket--mostly too high up the chain of command for my modest forces"

Good point, RP. I stretch it by having Napoleon (& suite) "look on" whilst two small Corps slug it out.

The short, chubby Corsican is, improbable, eye-candy.

Here's super-spy and WWII secret agent Hedy Lamarr as a member of Fightin' Bob La Follette's "Justice Squadron" (fifth from the left). I forget what figure I found to use for her, alas.

And here are two versions of Hedy's most celebrated disguise, as Tondelayo! ("White Cargo")

I got the idea of giving Hedy a fictional life of adventure and Nazi-smashing after realizing how she was actually a genius apart from being a gorgeous actress. This documentary of her life and inventions is worth watching for inspiration. YouTube link

What a great character for Pulp games -- no one suspects a femme fatale to be an espionage agent or saboteur, or having a brain, and being an actress gives Hedy the power to trick the opposition.

Fightin' Bob's Justice Squad is one of my Pulp Alley leagues -- adventurers summoned from history and legend by powerful mystic forces to Defend the Right against all manner of foes! Led in the field by "Fightin' Bob" La Follette (progressive Wisconsin statesman of the early 20th century), their behind-the-scenes planner and strategist is Socrates. Other active members are Davy Crockett (along with his hunting hound Whirlwind and his pet bear Mississip), Hedy Lamarr, Annie Oakley, Geronimo, and Theodore Roosevelt. With Young Winston Churchill tagging along as "mascot" and wannabe! Such crazy adventures they land in.

Superb, piper909. A fantastic collection & I agree that Hedy Lamar was a truly remarkable person.