| ppecena | 16 Nov 2016 2:56 p.m. PST |
My brother-in-law recently passed away and I volunteered to take a look through his miniatures collection and get an idea of what they are worth. It is easily more than 1,000 figures, all based for WRG rules. It is like a time capsule of late 1970s miniatures. So I am going to share pictures and I ask that you help me try to identify them. First up is a 450 figure Viking army. These figures were collected and painted from about 1975 to 1981. I recognize a few of them as old Heritage figures from their Lord of the Rings line. The rest are a mystery to me; I am guessing Minifigs, Hichcliffe, and Lamming? I will get some closeups and post them also. The figures are in rough shape and glued onto painted metal bases. There are quite a few bent or missing spears. They do have some charm though and it was nice to array them on a table after so many years jumbled in boxes. [URL=http://s764.photobucket.com/user/ppecena/media/20161116_135939-1.jpg.html]
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| ppecena | 16 Nov 2016 3:14 p.m. PST |
Here are some closeups of the skirmishers.I think the slingers and some of the javelin men may be Hichcliffe, but I have no idea on the others. [URL=http://s764.photobucket.com/user/ppecena/media/20161116_160355.jpg.html]
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| ppecena | 16 Nov 2016 3:44 p.m. PST |
Some of the heavy infantry. [URL=http://s764.photobucket.com/user/ppecena/media/20161116_163156.jpg.html]
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| Winston Smith | 16 Nov 2016 4:02 p.m. PST |
I think I can spot some Essex. And maybe some Citadel also. They were available around that time.
Perhaps Garrison also. |
| Benvartok | 16 Nov 2016 5:02 p.m. PST |
If, and big if, they are for sale then you could market them as Retro Vikings! Very cool. |
 20thmaine  | 16 Nov 2016 5:14 p.m. PST |
close up pictures – working L to R 1: I think Lamming, hinchliffe, Lamming, hinchliffe, ???? 2: ?? ??? Hinchliffe x2, I think Garrisson x2 3: wow ! 3rd from right is Garrisson, the one's with the textured metal base are Hinchlife, the rest ???/ 4: 2nd from left is Minifigs 5: Blimey O'Reilly. Who knows ?  Neat collection – sorry to hear about how you come to be posting about this. |
| Lucius | 16 Nov 2016 7:28 p.m. PST |
Photo 5, 7th from left is a Grenadier viking from the pre-blister, 1976 catalog. Yea, I'm that old . . |
| Dave Knight | 17 Nov 2016 3:19 a.m. PST |
I used many of these figures this Monday in a SAGA game |
| Winston Smith | 17 Nov 2016 8:42 a.m. PST |
Second post, top photo, far right. Definitely Essex. Unless it isn't.
As are, I think, second photo, stand on left. Both may be Essex. |
| Winston Smith | 17 Nov 2016 10:10 a.m. PST |
Not all are specifically "Viking" figures either.
I see some Saxons, Carolongian, Varangian, and Sarmatian figures. |
| evilgong | 17 Nov 2016 2:39 p.m. PST |
Some minifigs Sword and Sorcery rage. db |
| ppecena | 17 Nov 2016 2:55 p.m. PST |
I agree that he was loose with his definition of 'Viking"; I think any figure that was even close to fitting the description got painted and put on the stand. So he had very few unpainted figures laying around (unlike me). |
| GarrisonMiniatures | 17 Nov 2016 4:24 p.m. PST |
Certainly a couple of Garrison Saxons and at least one Garrison Viking. |
| Oh Bugger | 18 Nov 2016 6:59 a.m. PST |
A Hinchcliffe Sarmatian there with the two handed axe. |
| paul liddle | 18 Nov 2016 12:17 p.m. PST |
There are a couple of old Dixon Vikings in there too, at each end of the line in the last photo. A blast from the past. |
| kodiakblair | 03 Dec 2016 4:41 p.m. PST |
Last picture and l-r 5 and 6 remind me of the Citadel Dark Ages range,from the days when code A was 20p and code B 25p. |
