ZULU WARS

Shirt Sleeve order

Big saleof H.H E.bay

Afghans

BRITISH LANCER ZULU WARS

Hal Jespersen’s 2006 Civil War Travelogue

Hal Jespersen’s 2006 Civil War Travelogue

British Dragoon Waterloo

marmeluke

LANCER

DRAGOON

British dragoon

Medieval Earl Of Warwick

GUARDSMUSICIAN 1836 and GERMAN KNIGHT

SIKH WAR AND HESSE

1. Officer British army Sikh war
   Hesse infantry
   
   
   
   

COLONIAL

1. The British in Afghanistan 1879.On E.Bay now
   
   
   

GREAT BLOKE

I lived near the shop and I n't say how may times I assed it without ever goingin.It was a time when I'd lost interest.I used to pas iton my way from Highbuy fields to see my uncle in Hackny.I used to walk my German shepherd down there ough Camden Passage.This was before it became the domain of Lord Ponce and gastro pubs.

Then it was where the likes of Marcus Hinton trod and we were all better for him.The world needs eccentricity.

HINTON ON THE MASON/DIXON LINE

WW1

PLAINS WARS

This blog is only about trying to put as many photos of 54mm Hinton Hunt soldiers down as possible but I would like any info you have. Always go below.I add to the other periods

Designer Marcus Hinton of Hinton Hunt became one of the first manufacturers to mass produce model, as opposed to toy, soldiers when he launched a range of 54mm figures around 1957. “The business probably began properly around that date,” John Fabb a long-time friend of Hinton recalls, “But Marcus had been dabbling in making figures for quite a while before that”.



The mysterious Hunt, rarely mentioned and never with an attached first name, was Simon Hunt, a designer himself, who had previously worked with R. Briton-Riviere designing larger figures for Sentry Box. According to Garratt, Hunt left the company to “devote his energies to music”.



“Simon was only really involved with the business in the first few years,” Mr Fabb says, “Certainly the connection with Sentry Box may have been relevant, because Miss Edmunds who ran that company originally made all the moulds for Marcus”.



Hinton had no formal training in sculpture or indeed anything else for that matter. “He just sort of drifted along until he found this thing he turned out to be terribly good at.” John Fabb’s wife, Penny told us. Mrs Fabb, a figure animator with Tradition, worked for Hinton for a number of years first at his boutique in Islington and later as caster of the 20mm range.



“Marcus had always been interested in military uniforms,” John Fabb says, “He collected militaria, particularly French Napoleonic items and armour”. In 1962 the two men had helped found the UK branch of the Confederate High Command, Britain’s first re-enactment society. A few years later they were both instrumental in the formation of the Sealed Knot with Brigadier Peter Young and Edward Suren.

MEXICAN WAR

On the left is the Hunt figure on the right is the BMC conversion.

CRIMEA

I'll put this under Crimea but if you know better tell me. Anyone got an idea of Hunt's Catalogue.

NAPOLEONICS

T&hese are a set of 54mm cavalry. Two French one English.Keep coming back to this for NAPS

the renaissance

All Figures of this period will be put here in the future so you will have to keep coming back

HINTON HUNT PRUSSIAN WAR

On this blog I'm going to try and catalogue all the 54mm stuff of H(INTON HUNT but you have to return to the page of lets says this Franco Prussian if you want to see new additions.