I added a few dozen Banners Forward knights to the pile 'o 54mm figures. Take a look if you'd like!
http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_ssn=macchim-5&_sop=10
http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_ssn=macchim-5&_sop=10
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I do love that story! They're labeled "Helenic Imrie Risley" to give credit to the line but also alert people that, as you point out, the figures are IR. Also to help search engines!
The search engine issue leads to some really awkward titles, like "Emperor Napoleon 1st, French, Napoleonic." I'm sure people have read that and thought "Hmmm, seems kind of redundant." I think there's also a "King Arthur, Arthurian" lurking in there somewhere.
Regards-
Mike
The search engine issue leads to some really awkward titles, like "Emperor Napoleon 1st, French, Napoleonic." I'm sure people have read that and thought "Hmmm, seems kind of redundant." I think there's also a "King Arthur, Arthurian" lurking in there somewhere.
Regards-
Mike
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I see some Helenic Imrie Risley
Helenic was before the joint venture Imrie and Risley, named by Mr Imrie after the name of his wife ( Helen) years 50 . The name is engraved on the base .
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The Helenic range included some Imperial German figures, too--marching line infantry and Guard grenadiers, a mounted figure of a Jäger zu Pferd, or Mounted Rifles, in English, and a dragoon standing at attention with his lance, and a Prussian Death's Head Hussar from the Seven Years War, based on a Menzel sketch. The French hussars are still in the catalog today, and I think the dragoon still is.
The French hussars with mirlitons work well for Seven Years War hussars from the Prussian, Austrian, French and Russian armies, since the uniform was almost unchanged, when the French Revolutionary wars broke out, and since the hussar uniforms across most of the armies were very similar. You've got a trio that shows the three poses of the foot figure. They're also available as mounted figures, and that is about the only option today, if you want to put together a larger group of SYW hussars.
You had 2 New Hope Designs Brunswick light dragoons, too, but I just bought 'em.
Prost!
Brad