Le Cimier LaSalle and an ADC (1 Viewer)

Wow! its been a while since I last got back to this figure.

I've been doing my usual spring cleaning chores, organised most of my library and figures. Really getting rid of a lot of boxes and culling the magazines What I do is cut out the articles that I want and put them into files. Then I later go back and reorganise further by attaching related articles together into bound booklets for easier reading with wide tape and neat labels. This really saves a lot of space and gives one a chance to delve into the forgotten parts. Anyway I digress.

A small base was created for Lasalle and his sabretache and sword were attached.

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Painted yellow ochre on the braiding with some chrome yellow highlights.

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I repaired some casting defects on the right cuff and left hand. This pic shows clearer the buttons and lace which were gilt painted.

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Almost completed Lasalle. I added some Historex buttons to the sabretache attachments. Added more flecks to the railing.

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Starting on the ADC Marbot. I've painted the embroidery in white to distinguish it from the darker nankeen cloth.
 

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Hi John,

thanks for your kind comment. Not yet finished. I still need to further delineate the details.
Gawd - this COVID business is affecting my mind.....

Rgds Victor
 
As the details are beautifully engraved, I went over the details of Marbot and delineated them. Then also touched up LaSalle.

I've completed these two figures. Now letting the paint dry and then will complete the bases.

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As I already wrote : better and better
Very nice job
Congratulations
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Hi Mirof,

Thanks for your compliment. I can't really do a bad job as these are LeCimier castings which are excellent.

Rgds Victor
 
Before being a maker of figurines, Le Cimier was a shop in Paris
Here an advert in the french Gazette des Uniformes in 1977
( I had and painted the serie77, the Realmodel and the Poste Militaire )
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You can see the Le Cimier I painted here

 
Hi Mirof,

thanks for the bkgd info on the Le Cimier shop. I was very much aware of it in Mil Mod magazine. The video is really great, bringing back a lot of nostalgic models to life. I was in London at that time and there were three shops I visited - Tradition Shepherds Place, Under two Flags Bond Street (toysoldiers, PostMilitaire and Historex) and a shop (can't remember the name but the owner was Don Disley?) in Thurloe Place, South Kensington. That last shop had all the series 77 and other various brands. We used to meet upstairs at that last shop for the BMSS monthly meetings.

Rgds Victor
 
The shop on Thurloe place was Seagull . There was a first tiny shop selling mainly wargaming figures and also Lasset, Rose, Serie 77, Old Guard ... and mini buildings made of cards to cut and glue together to get " The Parliament " various castles, the size of the pack was a half postcard size . Then they opened a new shop just a the turn of the corner . They were then sole agent for Cuiffo ( figurines in plasticine, unique, each a marvel, mounted on small base with a cover in perspex at something like 3£ . Stupid me I never bought one ) The shop was far bigger with everything available on the market + their own brand Realmodel commissioned to Hearne, Almond, Grieve, Haines... and sub names like " Masterworks " " New Series Classics" some in limited edition of 250 pieces .

The SHop ( 2nd one ) and a Cuiffo

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The first time I went in London to buy figurines was in 1972 with my friend . Travelled by night train-boat- train
We arrived at Victoria Station between 6 and 7 in te morning and you had to know the opening hours because they opened between 10 and 11, closing between 16 and 17H ( an aberation for us in belgium were shops opened at 08h30 - 9H closing at 18h ) So you had to schedule for the first to open . But Harrods was opening at 08H and had a division maquettes and figurines
We visted the same shops Tradition, Under 2 Flags and Games Workshop ( Yes the very first one, as big as a 2 phone boots, selling wargames and small figs, they will grow later on the locomotive that was D&D, I bought there the very first edition of D&D, 2 years later, they had only 2 in stock, freshly received )

Also visiting lot of books stores and the famous " Dark they Were and Goldeneyed " shop ( specialist in comics and SiFi books, still existing )

At the closure of the shops we got back to the Victoria station, with at least to full cadies) far to early for the train to Dover .But there was a cinema in the Station were they showed movies of Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, The three Stoges, The Marx Brother ... we could wait and try to not forget to check the time .
On the boat back, I usualy slept a bit ... not my friend ... when I woke up, he had visited my cadie, opening all boxes, all layed half opened, half closed on the table . Still today he is like that and still my friend .

Tradition and Under 2 Flags

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Mirof said:
The shop on Thurloe place was Seagull . There was a first tiny shop selling mainly wargaming figures and also Lasset, Rose, Serie 77, Old Guard ... and mini buildings made of cards to cut and glue together to get " The Parliament " various castles, the size of the pack was a half postcard size . Then they opened a new shop just a the turn of the corner . They were then sole agent for Cuiffo ( figurines in plasticine, unique, each a marvel, mounted on small base with a cover in perspex at something like 3£ . Stupid me I never bought one ) The shop was far bigger with everything available on the market + their own brand Realmodel commissioned to Hearne, Almond, Grieve, Haines... and sub names like " Masterworks " " New Series Classics" some in limited edition of 250 pieces .

The SHop ( 2nd one ) and a Cuiffo

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The first time I went in London to buy figurines was in 1972 with my friend . Travelled by night train-boat- train
We arrived at Victoria Station between 6 and 7 in te morning and you had to know the opening hours because they opened between 10 and 11, closing between 16 and 17H ( an aberation for us in belgium were shops opened at 08h30 - 9H closing at 18h ) So you had to schedule for the first to open . But Harrods was opening at 08H and had a division maquettes and figurines
We visted the same shops Tradition, Under 2 Flags and Games Workshop ( Yes the very first one, as big as a 2 phone boots, selling wargames and small figs, they will grow later on the locomotive that was D&D, I bought there the very first edition of D&D, 2 years later, they had only 2 in stock, freshly received )

Also visiting lot of books stores and the famous " Dark they Were and Goldeneyed " shop ( specialist in comics and SiFi books, still existing )

At the closure of the shops we got back to the Victoria station, with at least to full cadies) far to early for the train to Dover .But there was a cinema in the Station were they showed movies of Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, The three Stoges, The Marx Brother ... we could wait and try to not forget to check the time .
On the boat back, I usualy slept a bit ... not my friend ... when I woke up, he had visited my cadie, opening all boxes, all layed half opened, half closed on the table . Still today he is like that and still my friend .

Tradition and Under 2 Flags

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Mirof,

Thank you for the wonderful trip down memory lane! It is stories like this (each unique to the individual collector) that make this hobby so special!👍👍
 
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