I have been slowly collecting these figures for years and recently I acquired the last piece to make up, what I believe. is a full set of the vintage 20mm WW2 US Infantry. There are five in the series, numbered A1 - A5. Here is the set:
They are charming little figures with that 70s naivity. Here is my complete collection - all eight of them:
I had some of the Russians and Germans years ago , sadly I don't think they did heavy/support weapons .
ReplyDeleteThe Germans certainly had a full range of support weapons and artillery crews. The Russians just a couple of gunners.
DeleteAttractive figures - are they still available? Interesting, I was not aware Hinchliffe did these WW2 in 20mm metal. It seems odd commercially - Why in the 70s 80s age of Airfix (Matchbox, Esci) would they have done so? Airfix etc had the support weapons, vehicles, terrain pieces.
ReplyDeleteLike Jacklex, How do they scale or measure up with Airfix?
I find a similar but even more restricted stub WW2 range in the late 70s early 80s Peter Laing 15mm WW2 Range which I wish I could have collected more of at the time (busy filling up on the new plastics with my pocket money) - but there were few vehicles, support weapons etc, it looked a non starter. With the deliberate slight detailing of Peter Laing, they could be supported by suitable WW1 figures. https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2016/07/22/peter-laing-ww2-figures/
Hi Mark, sorry about the late reply. They are not available from Hinchliffe. They were produced by Caldercraft and some of the equipment was taken over by Skytrex. I don't think any of the figures are still in production. Scale wise, they are bigger than their plastic brethren and got bigger as production went on.
DeleteI recognise these from pictures in early editions of Miniature Wargames. They must have updated them because the Hinchliffe US infantry I bought a few years ago were not as nice as these.
ReplyDeleteI think Hinchliffe went through several revamps of the range. These figures date from the mid - late 70s.
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