Another Twenties- semi flat imaginations
Jul 27, 2022 5:51:06 GMT
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Post by tradgardmastre on Jul 27, 2022 5:51:06 GMT
I have been working on my 40mm semi flats recently. They are homecasts, not by me, from a variety of makers in Germany and are the sort of toy soldiers cast at home in the 1920s and 1930s . It was a hobby accessible to all. Buy the moulds and pop down to your friendly Plummer to get some lead off cuts for casting.
I have been buying them off eBay etc for years. They are often cheap and made of very bendy lead, sometimes crude in execution but they charm me. A look through the old catalogues online and you see the huge variety of figures available-
www.zinnfiguren-bleifiguren.com/Firmengeschichten/Schneider_Gebrueder/Schneider_Gebr_Katalog_ab%201920.pdf
www.zinnfiguren-bleifiguren.com/Firmengeschichten/Schneider_Gebrueder/Schneider_Gebr_Katalog_ab%201920.pdf
Anyway what I have been working on was Germanic imaginations where Germany never unified, the Great War never happened nor would WW2 occur either. An imaginary 1920s where small states vie for dominance, alliances are made and broken and that baroque edifice the Holy Roman Empire is there in spirit. So far my forces are Light Blue v Dark Blue. Light Blue is essentially Bavaria , where an economy is still under threat from excessive castle building and Dark Blue , where my ancestors came from.
As I still haven’t worked out how to post pictures here I have provided a link to my blog below-
tradgardland.blogspot.com/search/label/HRE
I have been buying them off eBay etc for years. They are often cheap and made of very bendy lead, sometimes crude in execution but they charm me. A look through the old catalogues online and you see the huge variety of figures available-
www.zinnfiguren-bleifiguren.com/Firmengeschichten/Schneider_Gebrueder/Schneider_Gebr_Katalog_ab%201920.pdf
www.zinnfiguren-bleifiguren.com/Firmengeschichten/Schneider_Gebrueder/Schneider_Gebr_Katalog_ab%201920.pdf
Anyway what I have been working on was Germanic imaginations where Germany never unified, the Great War never happened nor would WW2 occur either. An imaginary 1920s where small states vie for dominance, alliances are made and broken and that baroque edifice the Holy Roman Empire is there in spirit. So far my forces are Light Blue v Dark Blue. Light Blue is essentially Bavaria , where an economy is still under threat from excessive castle building and Dark Blue , where my ancestors came from.
As I still haven’t worked out how to post pictures here I have provided a link to my blog below-
tradgardland.blogspot.com/search/label/HRE
