Clydecast 75mm kits (1 Viewer)

[Obee]

Early last year I noticed that an Ebay seller, in rural Western Australia was selling a batch of Clydecast 75mm kits
and seeing he was only asking US$5 each (US$3.60) each, I asked him for all of his Napoleonic ones.

What he came up with was 10, and so I snapped them up, even though I don't collect that scale of figure, they were a real bargain !!!

When they arrived, I noticed that one wasn't from that period, but managed to sneak in being a 1830's British Dragoon.

Over the past month I have been regularly painting them all, one a time, and now here is the completed set.



L-R
French: Horse Grenadier of the Guard, Chasseur a Cheval, 10th Hussar, 13th Dragoon and 1st Regt Line Lancer,
Dutch: Curassier 1808,
Russian: Dragoon,
British: Scots Grey, 15th Hussar, 1st Dragoon 1830

They come with a wooden base, so I have added some terrain to make them look better that plain wood and painted that black.

I have found that painting this larger scale a change of style, and have really enjoyed painting them, so keep a lookout because I have about 8 x 75mm Hinchliffe French Napoleonic Infantry figures to get on with next !!!

John

 

[Mirof]

Nicely done
More than decent buying price
When I learned in 2014 that they were going to close activity, I downloaded all the pictures of their production that were still on their webb and made a XLS file containing them

Free to donwload here
https://www.mirofsoft.com/nostalgia-old-catalog-pdf/

+ an old catalogue in PDF

Enjoy

 

[Mirof]

I painted one of them, good moulding, almost no mould lines, easy fiting

 

[Obee]

Mirof,

When you see all these figures lined up, and your French Cuirassier, did you notice the almost identical pose??

Left foot forward !!!

Similarity with the Chasseur/Hussar's pelisse and the left hand.

Must be an economical way of producing figures, one master and then a few minor changes to suit ??

John

 

[Mirof]

Mirof,

When you see all these figures lined up, and your French Cuirassier, did you notice the almost identical pose??

Left foot forward !!!

Similarity with the Chasseur/Hussar's pelisse and the left hand.

Must be an economical way of producing figures, one master and then a few minor changes to suit ??

John

Yes, I guess he was working with previously made academie mannequins and added clothings ...
If you look at the Excell files, you will see redundant poses : left foot forward, right foot forward, legs slightly apart . In fact as lot of " Toy Soldiers " makers working on commission ( lot of French in this area ) working with premolded thin academic legs, torsos, arms, heads then bending them or not, clothing them ( copper foil, lead foil tissue sometime hardened with liquid plastic), posing head up-shin, low-chin, looking left, looking right etc ... Today more and more design are made in 3D computer assisted, but with the same idea behind : a bank with legs, torso, heads, hands, feet etc ...
Another famous exemple is Rose Model . If you look under the base you find numbers written like 1/18 1/xx; those are not code but distance between the holes ( receptacle of the feet pegs ) and you find always the same numbers meaning they were company's rules about the position of feet, allowing to molds base in great serie separatly, reducing the cost . This way of setting rules allow great harmony in production

 

[Obee]

Recently I got another Napoleonic figure by Clydecast for my collection, he is a Mameluke of the Imperial Guard.



If anyone sees more of these figures for sale, as castings, please let me know?

Thanks,
John

 

[blaster]

A very attractive range. I had bought two clydecast figures CCF34 and CCF 37. Brings back memories.

Rgds Victor