My 54mm Collection

When I told my daughter that I painted these around the same age she is now (18), she replied, noting the immense number of years since I was her age "but they are so well preserved".  "Lack of handling" was my response.  So, secret to looking young, avoid contact.  There is probably some truth in that.

Airfix Collectors Kit Coldstream Guard.  Rival to Historex.

A very block style of painting.

It looks like I did a better job of this laddie, having discovered shading.

Minot - I think painted as 33rd Foot.

Another Minot, this with a worry...

The paint is flaking off the bearskin.  

This one is a Lasset, LNF3, but with a Historex flag.  No idea why I changed it.

It is one of my favourites.

I'm thinking Lasset, LNF5

Has a wicked bayonet.

Minot and I did a dreadful job on him.

Lasset, LNF4.  White uniforms are a challenge.

I think I also converted this figure from French Grenadier to Dutch.

Another favourite.

I'm guessing Lasset.

Also a fave - started experimenting with basing.  

This was one of the last figures I did before a long break...

Another one I like too.

I used Funcken as the main (and possibly only) source.

This was a present and I don't think is really meant to be painted.

So it's not.

Now we get interesting.

My mum, who loved to paint - mainly copying old masters, tried her hand with this Lasset figure.

It turned out okay.

However her attempt on this poor chap must have got her on a bad day.

A few of the figures I painted have dates on the base that indicate 1975 was my year for 54mm figures.  Having been rescued from under lead mountain they will go into my display cabinet.

My 54mm Lead Mountain

These are from the 1970s and I received them as birthday/Christmas presents.  I must do a post on the figures in this scale that I have finished, but for now this is what remains to be done.

Apart from the two Minot figures, they are all Lasset from Greenwood and Ball.

Lasset French infantry man elite (remade bicorne hat)
L1000 French general (Prussian according to catalogue)
L887 French dismounted dragoon - helmet tuft missing
LNA5 Austrian jäger
L872 French gunner in forage cap
L663 British drummer in stovepipe Shako - partially painted in white uniform
French infantry man
LC2055 (?) hussar in cylindrical Shako - maybe Prussian?
L955 Blucher reading map
Minot hussar trumpeter
Minot hussar trooper - painted but broken

These were gifts from my Godmother.  In a conversation with her daughter recently (at Lumley Castle, Co Durham - lucky me) Liz told me how she remembered going shopping with her mum for them.

Here is the relevant page from the late 1970s Greenwood and Ball catalogue covering the Lasset range:

Source: http://www.mirofsoft.com/nostalgia-old-catalog-pdf/

More research is required to fully identify these figures, which I will do for sure one of these days...