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Oldest wargame figures still in your possession

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 3:10 pm
by BaronVonWreckedoften
These must be figures you purchased new from the actual manufacturers (at that time), have never been owned by anyone else, and which were bought for wargaming.

I'll start off - 15mm Dixon Marlburians from when they were first released back in the mid-/late-1970s (when I was still a teenager).

Re: Oldest wargame figures still in your possession

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 3:11 pm
by Paul
Donnington Miniatures Anglo Saxons from 1982ish.

Re: Oldest wargame figures still in your possession

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 3:31 pm
by Greystreak
Battle Honours 15mm Napoleonics; among Tony Barton's first releases to North America, mid 1980's.

Re: Oldest wargame figures still in your possession

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 4:03 pm
by RMD
I've still got some 1970s-vintage Heritage Miniatures 'Napoleonettes' lurking at the back of a cupboard somewhere, but they're very much in the scrap-pile.

In terms of useable figures, I've also still got some 1980s Battle Honours Napoleonics left in my collection, as well as some superb Denizen sci-fi figures.

Re: Oldest wargame figures still in your possession

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 4:15 pm
by Panzer21
Probably Hinchliffe 25mm Austrian SYW or Rafm 25mm F&I war or some Platoon 20 US and Russians (cold war) 20mm or even Hotspur 20mm Afghans all dating from the early - mid 1980s.

Anything earlier was sold or given away.....

Neil

Re: Oldest wargame figures still in your possession

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 4:23 pm
by RMD
Panzer21 wrote: Thu Oct 19, 2023 4:15 pm Probably Hinchliffe 25mm Austrian SYW or Rafm 25mm F&I war or some Platoon 20 US and Russians (cold war) 20mm or even Hotspur 20mm Afghans all dating from the early - mid 1980s.

Anything earlier was sold or given away.....

Neil
Oh yeah, Hotspur... I've got a load of their SCW figures from the mid-80s.

Re: Oldest wargame figures still in your possession

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 4:34 pm
by FreddBloggs
Garrison, 1979, Spearmen with shield.

Re: Oldest wargame figures still in your possession

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 8:00 pm
by valleyboy
Probably some Woodland Indians that I bought at a Bring & Buy in the early eighties at some forgotten wargames show that I intended to use for Pony Wars

Re: Oldest wargame figures still in your possession

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 8:04 pm
by Ilkley Old School
Hinton Hunt French Guard Grenadiers from Marcus Hintons shop in Camden Passage and Alberken French Voltigeurs from BMW Models in Wimbledon in 1972.

Re: Oldest wargame figures still in your possession

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 9:08 pm
by tim.w
My Britains Deetail are right beside me, from about 1981/2 onwards. I've got Lamming and Hinchliffe ancients though bought recently. In terms of wargames figures probably nothing older than about 15 years now after several clear outs.