Old Soldiers Never Die....They Just Trade Away

New Miniature Figure Trading Blog

Hi All,

For some time now I have been sorting out lots of redundant figures that I have with an intent to either sell them on Ebay or trade away.

It seems to me to be more desirable to offer the figures for consideration to friends and aquaintances first in an attempt to save some of the costs associated with fees and bidding up on Ebay and other places.

Therefore I have decided to make a new blog: Old Soldiers Never Die They Just Trade Away
that will enable folks to post figures for trade, sale and wanted.

There are no restrictions on scale, size, type, period or material (plastic/metal etc). Although I would prefer it to be mainly vintage or reproduced or compatible wargame figures and associated material only.

Therefore I will remove non wargame posts from the site. Otherwise the only moderation will be for appropriateness of language, decency and civility. I may also add labels if the poster forgets them to enable ease of searching.

I welcome and desire all and any interested participants. Please feel free to post away - simple instructions are at top of blog.

Makers/Manufacturers of figures please feel free also to post on the blog if you wish.

I have posted a first trade as an example (it is a genuine trade). I will also be posting more of my available figures and also my own wants list later.

There is no 'owner' of the blog per see and nobody gets 'first dibs' or will be able to skim of the top - thats why the posts go on immediately without moderation for all to see - only moderated, as above, afterwards if necessary - which will not, I hope, normally be the case.

I leave all pricing, bartering and trading to be completed privately by email by the participants - although again there are no rules against using the post and or comments as you wish - it's entirely up to you.

I welcome all comments, suggestions and feedback.

Good Trading,

Ron

Welcome

Thanks for visiting my blog - my first ever!

My intention is to show all the various wargame figures I have hoarded over the years - most without ever painting them - Ah the best laid plans of a busy man are always thwarted by the need to earn a living, family demands, money and most of all time that is so elusive!

I will also be listing (and maybe showing photo's - subject to copywrite infringement) of all the books and prints etc I have collected

I hope you enjoy the blog and I welcome discussion amd comments from all.

My main interest is Napoleonics and English Civil War is a secondary era with Ancients a distant third.

I use 20mm figures mostly - but I have dabbled in 15mm and even 2mm!!

Hinton Hunt which were the state of the art when I started were my main choice - but as the castings from Hinton became poorer and more flash than figure I was forced to try and match other manufacturers. Minifigs (early range) and then the really nice 20mm figures from Les Higgins (Phoenix) which I have used almost entirely for my British units.

As for Cavalry I have used the Lamming Range - they were clean and well made if you discount the 'Easter Island' statue faces!! Of course the scales are slighty different but when faced with lumps of flash from Hinton versus a slighty larger scale there was no choice to make.

My figures were mostly purchased 40 years ago! so I have not taken advantage of later improvements from other manufacturers - I hated the move to fat stocky figures from Minifigs and long thin 25 more like 30mm from Hinchcliffe and others.

My artillery is all from Hinchcliffe's 20mm range and they were unsurpassed at the time.

Overtime I had grandiose schemes of masses of units from all the participant countries but as always this didn't happen for all the usual reasons!

I did however collect many sample figures from several manufacturers - my intention was the same as many other people at the time - to use the samples as masters to mould my own figures.

With one exception I was a complete failure at figure casting!! and so I have had this large set of samples sitting in a set of drawers for 40 years waiting for me to do something with them - this is it.