Mike Tarantino's Toy Soldier Collection (2 Viewers)

The fourth new Hiriart set I received this month is a non-catalog set of SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS, EGYPT.
 

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Another addition to my collection is Hiriart set 1346 WEHRMACHT 5TH PANZER REGIMENT, 1939. These early war panzer crewmen will go well with my Hiriart set 1279 metal die cast Panzer II tank.
 

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This is Hiriart's non-catalog set of THE 19TH HUSSARS, EGYPT, 1882. I had ordered three of these sets: one for me, one for Fred, and one for resale, which Bob picked up at Saturday's get together.
 

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This is a stock photo of another new Hiriart addition to my collection: set 1125 POMPON ROUGE, MARINE FRANCAISE.
 

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This is my new Hiriart set 1156 CHASSEURS ALPINS variation with Adrian helmets and dark pants. I ordered it with one extra man, not shown.
 

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This is my new Hiriart non-catalog set of BLACK WATCH HIGHLANDERS, BOER WAR.
 

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Hello Mike,
great sets again. You must own hundereds of them by now - you lucky guy.
kind regards
Wolfgang

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Hope you do not mind the question but how many "Legion Condor sets" did/does Hiriart produce? Was it just the one you put up here? Can't remember where I saw the set with figurines wearing "Blach Barrets".
 
Hello Mike,
great sets again. You must own hundereds of them by now - you lucky guy.
kind regards
Wolfgang

P.S.
Hope you do not mind the question but how many "Legion Condor sets" did/does Hiriart produce? Was it just the one you put up here? Can't remember where I saw the set with figurines wearing "Blach Barrets".

Hi Wolfgang,

Thanks, I am glad you like them. I don't have an exact count, but I believe that I have more than 250 Hiriart sets. I am trying to pass Bob Walker who has a similar number in his collection, but, alas, he has many more bands and double sets than I do, so I have a ways to go.

Hiriart has just one Condor Legion set which is in its' Spanish Civil War catalog: Set ES-13 LEGION CONDOR, 1939 (stock photo attached). I am not sure which black beret set you are referring to; the Condor Legion figures are not wearing berets.

Best regards,

Mike
 

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Hi Wolfgang,

Thanks, I am glad you like them. I don't have an exact count, but I believe that I have more than 250 Hiriart sets. I am trying to pass Bob Walker who has a similar number in his collection, but, alas, he has many more bands and double sets than I do, so I have a ways to go.

Hiriart has just one Condor Legion set which is in its' Spanish Civil War catalog: Set ES-13 LEGION CONDOR, 1939 (stock photo attached). I am not sure which black beret set you are referring to; the Condor Legion figures are not wearing berets.

Best regards,

Mike[/QUOTE]

Hi Mike,
thanks for your quick reply - Wow 250 sets that is a lot of soldiers indeed. Best of luck for your stocking up.
As for the black berets - and I do not want to sound smart, but berets where indeed worn by at least one mechanized unit and where most likely of spanish origin. Due to the secrecy of the Wehrmacht`s involvement throughout the Spanish Civil War there is still very little evidence of what kind of uniform was actually worn in the field and what wasn't. I am not an expert but I do know that the uniforms as shown in Hiriart`s set where the ones worn at the Berlin comeing home parade in 1938. Dispite the photographic evidence those uniforms where never worn DUREING the conflict in Spain. Period photographs showing such dress where taken in Germany AFTER the troops comeing home in 1938. Dureing the the civil war soldiers on home-leave in Germany where strictly ordered to wear civilian clothes. Very unusual for that time. The transformation of the entire civil-society was almost complete by 1936 and almost every civil servant had to wear a uniform of some kind.
kind regards
Wolfgang
 
Hi Wolfgang,

Thanks, I am glad you like them. I don't have an exact count, but I believe that I have more than 250 Hiriart sets. I am trying to pass Bob Walker who has a similar number in his collection, but, alas, he has many more bands and double sets than I do, so I have a ways to go.

Hiriart has just one Condor Legion set which is in its' Spanish Civil War catalog: Set ES-13 LEGION CONDOR, 1939 (stock photo attached). I am not sure which black beret set you are referring to; the Condor Legion figures are not wearing berets.

Best regards,

Mike

Hi Mike,
thanks for your quick reply - Wow 250 sets that is a lot of soldiers indeed. Best of luck for your stocking up.
As for the black berets - and I do not want to sound smart, but berets where indeed worn by at least one mechanized unit and where most likely of spanish origin. Due to the secrecy of the Wehrmacht`s involvement throughout the Spanish Civil War there is still very little evidence of what kind of uniform was actually worn in the field and what wasn't. I am not an expert but I do know that the uniforms as shown in Hiriart`s set where the ones worn at the Berlin comeing home parade in 1938. Dispite the photographic evidence those uniforms where never worn DUREING the conflict in Spain. Period photographs showing such dress where taken in Germany AFTER the troops comeing home in 1938. Dureing the the civil war soldiers on home-leave in Germany where strictly ordered to wear civilian clothes. Very unusual for that time. The transformation of the entire civil-society was almost complete by 1936 and almost every civil servant had to wear a uniform of some kind.
kind regards
Wolfgang[/QUOTE]

Hi Wolfgang,

I believe that you are correct regarding berets being worn by some Condor Legion panzer units. However, Hiriart has a Spanish Civil War catalog with 40 sets numbered ES-01 through ES-40 which exactly corresponds to the similarly numbered uniform color plates in a book by Jose Bueno. The Bueno plates represent various units in the 1939 victory parade in Madrid, hence these particular uniforms. I don't have a copy of Bueno's color plate ES-13, but I have seen it and these are the uniforms shown on the color plate. These are the only Germans in Hiriart's SCW series, but there are five Italian units. The remainder of the sets are Spanish military, foreign legion, and Moroccans.

Best regards,

Mike
 
This is a new, Hiriart non-catalog set of TURKISH ARTILLERY, 1912 that I received in July.
 

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The 11th and final new Hiriart set I received in July is a special winter greatcoats version of catalog set 1010 ROYAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY, 1898. My set includes two extra men, not shown.
 

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Hi Mike,
thanks for your quick reply - Wow 250 sets that is a lot of soldiers indeed. Best of luck for your stocking up.
As for the black berets - and I do not want to sound smart, but berets where indeed worn by at least one mechanized unit and where most likely of spanish origin. Due to the secrecy of the Wehrmacht`s involvement throughout the Spanish Civil War there is still very little evidence of what kind of uniform was actually worn in the field and what wasn't. I am not an expert but I do know that the uniforms as shown in Hiriart`s set where the ones worn at the Berlin comeing home parade in 1938. Dispite the photographic evidence those uniforms where never worn DUREING the conflict in Spain. Period photographs showing such dress where taken in Germany AFTER the troops comeing home in 1938. Dureing the the civil war soldiers on home-leave in Germany where strictly ordered to wear civilian clothes. Very unusual for that time. The transformation of the entire civil-society was almost complete by 1936 and almost every civil servant had to wear a uniform of some kind.
kind regards
Wolfgang

Hi Wolfgang,

I believe that you are correct regarding berets being worn by some Condor Legion panzer units. However, Hiriart has a Spanish Civil War catalog with 40 sets numbered ES-01 through ES-40 which exactly corresponds to the similarly numbered uniform color plates in a book by Jose Bueno. The Bueno plates represent various units in the 1939 victory parade in Madrid, hence these particular uniforms. I don't have a copy of Bueno's color plate ES-13, but I have seen it and these are the uniforms shown on the color plate. These are the only Germans in Hiriart's SCW series, but there are five Italian units. The remainder of the sets are Spanish military, foreign legion, and Moroccans.

Best regards,

Mike[/QUOTE]

Hi Wolfgang,

I was able to find a copy of the Jose Bueno color plate numbered ES-13 which Hiriart used as the basis for its Spanish Civil War set ES-13 LEGION CONDOR 1939. You can see that they made a very good effort to accurately duplicate the Bueno color plate.

Mike
 

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Hi Wolfgang,

I was able to find a copy of the Jose Bueno color plate numbered ES-13 which Hiriart used as the basis for its Spanish Civil War set ES-13 LEGION CONDOR 1939. You can see that they made a very good effort to accurately duplicate the Bueno color plate.

Mike[/QUOTE]


Hi Mike,
thanks a lot, as I wrote earlier unfortunatly I am lacking this set of prints in my collection but at least I got a few of the others. No daubt that Hiriart did a great job useing these as a reference - perfectly transferred into 3D.
kind regards
Wolfgang
 
Hi Wolfgang,

I was able to find a copy of the Jose Bueno color plate numbered ES-13 which Hiriart used as the basis for its Spanish Civil War set ES-13 LEGION CONDOR 1939. You can see that they made a very good effort to accurately duplicate the Bueno color plate.

Mike


Hi Mike,
thanks a lot, as I wrote earlier unfortunatly I am lacking this set of prints in my collection but at least I got a few of the others. No daubt that Hiriart did a great job useing these as a reference - perfectly transferred into 3D.
kind regards
Wolfgang[/QUOTE]

Your welcome.
 
I forgot to post the new Hiriart sets that I received in February here under my collection. The first is Hiriart set 1087 PRINCESS PAT'S LIGHT INFANTRY, CANADA. This is only the second Canadian set I have in my collection. The other one is Hiriart's set 1050 THE ROYAL CANADIAN REGIMENT.
 

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This is my Hiriart set 1099 LIEB GRENADIER EMPEROR ALEXANDER from February's shipment.
 

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This is a special all flags version of Hiriart's set 1146 GERMAN BERLIN INFANTRY, 1938.
 

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