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I've just taken a look at my 1:72 Britains Lilliput khaki infantry and they are marked Britains Ltd England. There were lots of copies made in Hong Kong but if they're marked Britains Ltd England then you've got the original Lilliput figures. They also made a range of 1:72 metal armoured...

Quite a few people still collect old Britains hollowcast figures over here in the UK but they are becoming more picky; the early "Ancient Britains" made up until about 1910, Paris Office and boxed Regiments of All Nations always find good demand. The more common guardsmen, Household cavalry and...

The originals were made by Airfix in soft plastic in the UK. Lots of figures in the Airfix range were copied in plastic and rubber in the previously Communist Poland so I think that's what you have here. Best wishes, Brian http://toysoldiercollecting.blogspot.co.uk/

I live in Richmond, West London, where Wm. Grants head office is based, shortly after the first series were issued I met with the Marketing Director who had commisioned the figures and asked him specifically if they had been made by Britains for Grants' he said they were not. I had originally...

To other Treefroggers - Brian has a great site of his own with some great conversion ideas Maybe Brian can place a link Err..................okay! how do I do that? Brian

Ericpodeofcroydon is right they are MDM not Starlux or SEGOM. MDM was set up in France in 1942 by Mr Rene Daniel, he made 54mm lead figures for the collectors market, it was a very small scale "cottage industry" firm. After the end of the war he started selling them under the trade mark MDM...

They were made in Italy by Fontanini around the 1980's, the figures are made in plastic (sometimes PVC) and mounted on a small mable plinth, they were sold as decorative ornaments, they also made these figures in smaller scales down to about 70mm. Other ranges included pirates, musketeers and...

The Viking is by Fontanini and this set comes in a number of different scales. The other five are knock off copies of Elastolin 70mm Turks made in italy by a firm called GPS Gavicci.

You're pretty much on target here Mike except that the Rev War figures were the first series followed by the ACW. I met John Jeffries several times when he was first setting up Accurate and he gave me some test shots of the Rev War figures, there was an extra pose - a British infantryman...