Latest Arrival

Yesterday arrived a large parcel from Jorge Schilling of Germany containing his ranges of French Old Guard and French Line Infantry all for 1815, these are superb figures, beautifully sculpted and well designed, at least 30 poses in each range, highly recommended, Jorge also produces a full range of Brunswickers again for 1815, pictures of all his figures can be seen here

http://www.zinnfiguren-schilling.de/


As I said in my first posting, thanks are due to Clive, James, Paul, Vincent, Rick, and Gary, who i missed mentioning before for their pressure to get me started blogging so now you all know who to blame

Plans are well advanced for Iain's visit in November where he gets his twice yearly thrashing, this time it's SYW ( Age of Honor rules, a Fire & Fury variant) and AWI (Patriot & Loyalist rules), forces from a variety of sources, Art-Miniaturen, Revell, Garrison, Minifigs S range and my own SYW French, there's even a few old Airfix, if we remember to use camera they'll be a few pics appearing, so long as I can work out how to upload pics to blog

Now I've started it !!

After many years of pressure from various parties I've finally got round to doing a blog, the idea behind the title " 20 mm Nostalgic Revival " is to again make available to 20 mm collectors and gamers some of the old 20 mm ranges that have over the years disappeared or gone out of production and to introduce to the younger generation of gamers the appeal of these ranges, an added intention is to produce ranges of 20 mm figures that the major makers of 20 mm figures, both metal and plastic, are unlikely to ever produce. The main periods covered will be 1600 to 1900 ( so don't expect Ancients, Medieval or WW 1 or 2 and later ( well maybe WW 1 in East Africa and Palestine)

Over the last few years I've been lucky enough to get hold of original moulds and masters of the following ranges

Les Higgins ECW and Marlburians
Douglas Miniatures Marlburians (Crimean and some Naps coming soon)
Wodensfeld ACW & SYW French

All these ranges are now back into production, amongst the new ranges are, Sepoys for Wellington in India, Akalis 19th century Sikh Fanatics and 1740s Arqubusiers de Grassin, these have been don in conjunction with friends across the world who found the scultors, supplied the uniform information, suggested ranges and poses for these and I have had them moulded and cast.

I intend to post pictures of my collection over the coming months to include ECW/30YW, WSS/GNW, SYW, AWI, Naps, ACW, FPW, Colonials, I have amassed over the past 40 odd years fairly large armies for these periods and as I've said I've finally bowed to pressure to share my 20 mm obession

Thanks are due Uwe, Harry, Richard, Jim, Iain, Donald, Terry, John, Stuart, David, Eamon et al, if I've missed anyone they'll get a mention in the future