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Post by rainsford on Jul 19, 2022 7:36:41 GMT
When I was a kid in the 1990s, I stumbled across a Britains Union infantryman in a Midwestern antique store while visiting a Civil War battlefield on a family weekend road trip. He was rescued from the box of Confederates he was stuck with, and made his way home to my green and tan plastic armies, where his painted nature immediately made him a "Hero," perhaps a sort of Captain-America-type, ageless and leading the good-guy Greens into battle against the Tans.
I've never quite been able to pin down when exactly he would have been made, to see if he predates my manufacture or not. He's stayed relatively close at hand all these years, and was rediscovered about two years ago after an absence, in the bottom of a box of model railroad supplies, broken off of his base. After a trip to Dr. Pinvise for some foot surgery he was back in action. I made sure he was in my bags when I moved to Hawaii for work last year.
His overall aesthetic with bright grass green base has influenced by miniature painting over the years, with the 1/72 ACW figures and HO scale model railroad people of my youth getting the same treatment, right through to more recent 28mm D&D minis.
What are you all's Hero Figures from childhood? Are they still with you today?
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Post by tradgardmastre on Jul 19, 2022 9:46:15 GMT
My heroes are sadly gone. The good guys were always Britains swoppets and the baddies Timpo, don’t know why, just was. My awi and ACW swoppets took on a mix of Timpo Mexicans, cowboys and Indians. The Mexican with the whip was the chief baddie!
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Post by aducknamedjoe on Jul 20, 2022 5:59:40 GMT
I also used Deetail Civil War guys as "heroes," but mainly in my horse and musket armies.
For my moderns, this bad dude was "me" when my friends and I would play our home-brewed army men RPG in middle school. He's a SWAT figure from a police playset of still unknown manufacture (Tootsie maybe?), and here he is, still with the paint my 11 year old self added to make him look more like a cool special forces "operator" and less like a blue policeman.
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Post by rainsford on Jul 20, 2022 22:53:51 GMT
I also used Deetail Civil War guys as "heroes," but mainly in my horse and musket armies.
For my moderns, this bad dude was "me" when my friends and I would play our home-brewed army men RPG in middle school. He's a SWAT figure from a police playset of still unknown manufacture (Tootsie maybe?), and here he is, still with the paint my 11 year old self added to make him look more like a cool special forces "operator" and less like a blue policeman.
Is that his character record sheet I spy in the background? |
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Post by aducknamedjoe on Jul 21, 2022 2:30:51 GMT
Haha it is. We were at the level of granularity of tracking individual bullets, and of course needed to track our kill counts... We clearly had a lot of time on our hands.
(The two ESCI tan soldiers were characters played by friends of mine, the greens were "elites with ARs" that were part of my retinue, and the blue policewoman, being the only female toy soldier I owned, was the requisite femme fatal that occasionally needed rescuing).
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Post by 79thpa on Jul 21, 2022 13:19:49 GMT
Love the motorcycle/sidecar combo.
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Post by Quantrilltoy on Jul 24, 2022 22:31:54 GMT
When I was a kid in the 1990s, I stumbled across a Britains Union infantryman in a Midwestern antique store while visiting a Civil War battlefield on a family weekend road trip. He was rescued from the box of Confederates he was stuck with, and made his way home to my green and tan plastic armies, where his painted nature immediately made him a "Hero," perhaps a sort of Captain-America-type, ageless and leading the good-guy Greens into battle against the Tans.
I've never quite been able to pin down when exactly he would have been made, to see if he predates my manufacture or not. He's stayed relatively close at hand all these years, and was rediscovered about two years ago after an absence, in the bottom of a box of model railroad supplies, broken off of his base. After a trip to Dr. Pinvise for some foot surgery he was back in action. I made sure he was in my bags when I moved to Hawaii for work last year.
His overall aesthetic with bright grass green base has influenced by miniature painting over the years, with the 1/72 ACW figures and HO scale model railroad people of my youth getting the same treatment, right through to more recent 28mm D&D minis.
What are you all's Hero Figures from childhood? Are they still with you today?
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Post by Quantrilltoy on Jul 24, 2022 22:33:03 GMT
The rounded metal base makes him a later creation in the Britains Detail range but the sculpt is the same as the older ones.
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