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willie:
Hi guys well I am now in VA at my daughters I haven't set up yet . I well send you my new address for the last Journal , Let me know about the planes for Kulmback   Wille

plyoung:

You've done nothing to worry about Brian.  If the other members are anything like me they will attempting to reply to your request once they can remember when this love affair with flats began.  Mine began in the 1960s when I discovered the Gottstein flats at the Royal United Services Museum in London.  I bought my first flats about 10 years later from a model shop in South Kensington.  These were 18th century Scottish Highlanders by Scheibert and engraved by Kovar.  In the 1980s I was buying Golberg figures from Dick Jenkins at Western Miniatures; mostly early 18th century period engraved by Lepeltier and Grunewald.  When I became a parent collecting flats went out the window and so I didn't start again until I visited Kulmbach in 2015 and 2017. both times I was armed with a shopping list and bought more Highlanders by Scheibert; Crusaders and Saracens by Menz; The Schleswig Holstein War figures by Rieger and more early 18th century figures by Neckel and Maier.


I only have about 300 figures but the beauty of the engraving on most of them, especially those engraved by Frank and Maier, is incredible - the anatomical detail of horses and men - it takes your breath away.  I can't wait to get back to Kulmbach again in 2019.

johnb:
I saw my first flats about 25 years ago in Military Modelling, but living in Australia there were none readily available. I joined the society and an Aussie member, Des Gay was selling much of his collection, so I saw what they looked like in person and was hooked.  Shortly after I met the late great Reverend Harold Smart and he thoroughly converted me.  What a wonderful guy - so generous and enthusiastic and treasure of knowledge.  I have steadily accumulated 2-3,000 figures (stopped counting) and I now have some time to paint them.  I have started using Citadel and Vallejo acrylics and have knocked off around 100 figures in 4 months - more than I achieved in the last 20 years.  The standard may not be show but they make me very happy.


regards
John Brewer

Brian:

Thank goodness!! was starting to think I had done something wrong again,
But just a line or two of how you fond Flats and the BFFS would be good
Thanks guys  ;) 

Gerald:
About seven years ago, my marriage dissolved. My wife moved with the kids to her new boyfriend. I had to sell the house. I needed a new hobby that distracted me and did not remind me. On eBay, I found pewter figures from Schneider. I did not know how to paint and asked at work if anyone knows. A colleague was chairman of the Zinnfiguren club in Nuremberg and invited me to visit the club (VFZ Nuremberg). That's how the hobby started. Today I have many slateforms for 2D  figurines and every year there are more.

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