Unknown Napoleonic Russians. (1 Viewer)

Scott

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I bought these a few years ago. I don't see them for sale anywhere now and there is no brand name on the figures.

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I've never seen them, either, Scott. Are they 54mm-1/32, in that range, or in smaller scale? Are they Russians or Prussians? They could be painted up relatively easily as Prussians.

Prost!
Brad
 
They are 1/32 and were advertised as Russians. They came in several colors but I just bought the green.
 
Interesting - they look very similar in style and color to Black Cat Russians, but I don't think they ever released poses like this. Maybe you bought a set of masters that were never released. How did you come by them?
 
Thanks for clearing up the scale question!

It's the shape of the shakos and the plumes that remind me of Prussians. I don't recall if the Russians used a cylindrical shako or not, before they adopted the kiver. Some of the shots show shako plates or cockades that look like the Prussian style, but again, I don't know much about Russian Napoleonic uniforms off the top of my head.

Do you have these queued up for painting or kitbashing any time soon?

Prost!
Brad
 
I took a quick look over on the NYPL site at The Vinkhuijzen collection of military uniforms. These guys look like early 1800-1805-ish from these prints.

http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1605638&t=w

http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1605637&t=w

http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1605636&t=w

http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1605636&t=w

Prints showing the coal bucket looking shako are on the prints dated 1812.

These little guys might look good painted. They almost look like folk art or something under the tree in The Nutcracker.
 
Scott, these guys have been around for awhile now and these are the first napoleonic russians I was able to find years back. I believe they are from a small company in russia, I think the same company that makes the Talaban fighters???
They are early Russian guard figures Pre 1812 uniforms and would be good for any battles pre 1812 like Austerltz, Eylau ect.. The large plumes were for grenadiers only, line troops had the same shako but without the plumes.
These large plumes were also used by Prussian Guard troops also and I,ve thought about converting a few of mine into Prussian figures in the past but never got around to it. Here is a link were they are listed as being Russian made, I never did figure out the name of the company that makes them?????
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/toysoldierhq/Russian.html
 
Those were available from a Russian Internet/ebay dealer. I painted a few battalions some years ago.Decent one piece figures.Had to buy in 8 figure sets and ended up with scads of extra command but thats just how it was.I was told they were sold to tourists at the Borodino Battlefield .
Yes, they will do very well for Prussian Grenadiers up to 1812.
Not the same sculptor . The Blackcat Grenadiers were done by a Gentleman in New Zealand { as were the the original 8 French and 16 ACW figures}
and were multipart plastics assembled in the Chinese factory.

Fish, you are right. The same outfit made some other figs such as Taliban, some Soviet ww2, SWAT teams etc. but as to the name of the company I have no idea.
You'll see some new odd 60mm heroic type Romansd , Vikings, etc on ebay now from Russian company.Rather odd, no bases, plain old kidz toyz not fit for 50 year old kidz!


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www.blackcatminiatures.net
 
Those were available from a Russian Internet/ebay dealer. I painted a few battalions some years ago.Decent one piece figures.Had to buy in 8 figure sets and ended up with scads of extra command but thats just how it was.I was told they were sold to tourists at the Borodino Battlefield .
Yes, they will do very well for Prussian Grenadiers up to 1812.
Not the same sculptor . The Blackcat Grenadiers were done by a Gentleman in New Zealand { as were the the original 8 French and 16 ACW figures}
and were multipart plastics assembled in the Chinese factory.

Fish, you are right. The same outfit made some other figs such as Taliban, some Soviet ww2, SWAT teams etc. but as to the name of the company I have no idea.
You'll see some new odd 60mm heroic type Romansd , Vikings, etc on ebay now from Russian company.Rather odd, no bases, plain old kidz toyz not fit for 50 year old kidz!


FubARrRRrrrR
www.blackcatminiatures.net

These are indeed from Russia and came from the same factory as the Taliban/Afghan figures, which we imported. They are long out of production, sadly and the tooling for the second set of Taliban/Afghans has ben damaged beyond repair, apparently. We tried to get the tooling, to effect some kind of repair, but so far have been unlucky. Scale is erratic, but sit between 50mm and 60mm, they appear slender (in the normal Russian style) but certainly have plenty of character - check out the little guy!
Lintek are a good name to look out for in the Soviet Bloc-made figures, if you can find them, let me know!! They did nice Napoleonic Artillery and some Lithuanian Regiment figures.

Steve Weston.
 
Steve,

good to hear from you, I was going to check your website, seeing you seem to be THE main man for plastics in UK.

I'd seen these guys, but also thought them a bit off scale, and not in the right proportions, much the pity, as we need more Russian NAPs :)

John
 
Steve,

good to hear from you, I was going to check your website, seeing you seem to be THE main man for plastics in UK.

I'd seen these guys, but also thought them a bit off scale, and not in the right proportions, much the pity, as we need more Russian NAPs :)

John

Hi John,

I don't know if we need more Russians - after all, we have the AIP items, and now 3 sets from HaT - when is enough, enough? HaT do some great figures, but I would love to see them change period as I am really up to my neck in Napoleonics. I just hope that they sell enough to make it a worthwhile venture for them.

Steve.
 
Steve. Thanks for the information on these figures. They'll do well for the Austerlitz era.
 

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