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Flat Figures Collectors Forum => My Collection => Topic started by: Brian on September 28, 2013, 04:53:23 AM
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Well guys what you got!! no need for photos text is fine just tell us about your collection ;)
If I was to say I collect it would be Mignot 30mm figures factory painted and blanks got quite a few now will get round to boring you with them later ;D
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About my collection.
When I was a young boy, I liked very much play with little soldiers. At this time (end of the 60's) it was plastics soldiers. I received them from my parents and grand-parents. We usually went to a big shop in the center of Brussels. The name of the shop was "Old England", they sold a lot of different things : clothes, furniture and....toys on the third floor. All my soldiers came essentially from this shop and the editor was "Britains".
When I became older I began to buy soldiers, not for play anymore but for collect them. And especially flatfigures. It was at the begin of the 80's and now I cannot stop to buy flatfigures and sometime round figures too but it is very seldom because I prefere flats.
All my collection or the biggest part, is dedicated to the Napoleonic time.
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Thank you very much for showing us those and the story behind your collection. When you have time please show us some more. :)
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Well not much, since I don't collect in the traditional sense.
I have 13 completed flats - four stock commercial pieces, three conversions of stock pieces, and six scratch-built.
There are four commercial pieces in in my storage drawer and one commercial piece on my desk being painted.
There are also three scratch-built pieces on my desk - one being painted, one primed, and one being sculpted. All have some issues which I am mulling how to fix before continuing. I have been mulling for quite some time, now...
I've noticed one little issue I have. I can't look at a commercial piece without thinking about correcting something or converting it. It's a curse.
Cheers,
Glen
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Glen, it's not a curse, it's called perfection 8) ;D ;D ;D
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From my collection :
"Chasseurs Alpins dans le Vercors" by R. Menager.
It looks like flatfigures and indeed they are but they are made from a little metalsheet, cut and then painted. They are totally original and the man who did it in the past (he is death now) created a lot of different little diorama : in books, in frames...all totally hands made from near nothing
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Another nice one from the collection, thanks for posting.
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Bussy. Many years ago campaign magazine had a article about the artist who did that. Willie
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Willie,
Thanks for the information, do you know the number from the campaing magazine ?
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You are very lucky to have a Menager little diorama
I always loved what he did but never had the chance to get one
I am sure I have some pictures somewhere
I will look for
Eric
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The number is 16 and its a nice article. It goes to show you what is old is new and what is new is old. He did very nice work. Willie
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Some other items from my collection :
1) Quadriconcept : Napoleonic French officers
2) Andreas Hofer (painting : Terana)
3) Russian infantry
4) Russian infantry and artillery
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Well done for posting, you guys have great collections :)
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Great stuff Bussy!
I love the Wheat colored foliage and the cottage, really has the feel of Mother Russia. Can you tell me where I could get some those castings?
Ray
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Hello Ray,
Thanks to appreciate my flatfigures.
I bought the foliage to Scholtz in Berlin, they have a lot of different trees, bushes, flowers, plants.... (for winter time, spring time and summer time). I like to put some trees or bushes with the soldiers.
I don't remember where I bought the "isba", I think it was in an auction somewhere but I know that Scholtz has also a lot of different buildings for all the ages (castle, farm...). Dangschat had also some interestings buildings.
Philippe
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Well I have a few, mostly Ochel (Kilia) but a wide variety of others (e.g. Neckel, Hinsch, Gottstein etc.) The eras range from Ancients to Thirty Years War, Seven Years War and the Franco-Prussian War. I'd like to share via photos and have a digital camera, but how to get pictures from there to here? I'm not the most adept in matters involving these things. :-\
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Well I have a few, mostly Ochel (Kilia) but a wide variety of others (e.g. Neckel, Hinsch, Gottstein etc.) The eras range from Ancients to Thirty Years War, Seven Years War and the Franco-Prussian War. I'd like to share via photos and have a digital camera, but how to get pictures from there to here? I'm not the most adept in matters involving these things. :-\
Not hard, if you don't already have a photo bucket account open one, upload pics to site then, right click on the pic and click copy, open IFFS site in a different window and right click on post and hit paste, your pic will be on your post
hope this helps,
Ray
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Hi Ray,
I should also have said that I use an iMac and so no photobucket, but there is iPhoto. I'll take a look at it. I should be able to email to this Forum?
Scott
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Scott if you can add pictures to your iMac you can easily upload them directly to this site - photobucket is not required.
If you click on the + Attachments and other options which is located just below the Post Reply box you will see an option to Attach or choose a file. This will upload it directly from your computer to this site. There is also a help article on how to do this in the FAQ section.
As per my usual 'rant' this is the recommended option as opposed to using PhotoBucket or other sources. The tendency is for those accounts to go out of use meaning the pictures disappear. However, this site is about choice and they are 'your pictures' so it is up to the user. However, if you upload them directly they are here for good.
Mark
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Mark,
I agree with you, I generally dislike photobucket myself, the problem is many sites restrict photo size and it becomes a real bother to resize and your right about the disappearing problem, once you have a large quantity of photos and you want to break them up into albums or move them they disappear, a real pain.
Ray
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The first photo is the best one I could get with the camera I have. It might be clearer in grayscale if you have a photo editor. The eagle at the top of the box could be spanish I suppose. Im not sure though how it would have got to Russia being a 1918?