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Flat Figures Painters Forum => News => Topic started by: bussy on January 19, 2014, 06:05:22 AM

Title: New Figure
Post by: bussy on January 19, 2014, 06:05:22 AM

I just bought this new figure. I saw  the figure in the "Zinnfiguren" magazine. The editor was Schweizer (not Babette). I couldn't find the figure in Kulmbach and I asked Scholtz (Berliner Zinnfiguren) if they could find the figure for me. Finally I received the figure at home. It represents an old monument in Berlin dedicate to Frederic II. The monument doesn't exist anymore but I have an old book from 1851 with the entire description.
 
Philippe

Title: Re: New Figure
Post by: Roger on January 19, 2014, 07:03:15 AM

That's nice Philippe, a great addition to your collection.

Title: Re: New Figure
Post by: Kulmbach on January 19, 2014, 08:10:30 AM

Dear Philippe,


It might be a surprise for you ... but the monument still stands i Berlin!


Jan

Title: Re: New Figure
Post by: Roger on January 19, 2014, 08:27:39 AM

Quote from: Kulmbach on January 19, 2014, 08:10:30 AM

Dear Philippe,


It might be a surprise for you ... but the monument still stands i Berlin!


Jan

I had to have a look and....

http://www.aviewoncities.com/berlin/reiterdenkmal.htm

is this it?

Title: Re: New Figure
Post by: bussy on January 19, 2014, 08:51:47 AM

Sorry I thought the monument was destroyed and never built again...but it is nice that he still exists.

Title: Re: New Figure
Post by: Roger on January 19, 2014, 11:22:56 AM

Just out of interest I think the 54mm Fredericus Rex figures of von Keith and von Krockow are based upon figures on the pedestal of the statue.

Title: Re: New Figure
Post by: Glen on January 21, 2014, 03:40:48 PM

Bussy, perhaps you were thinking of the similar statue of William I at the Deutches Eck in Koblenz? It was wrecked during WW II, The plinth was left as a monument to German unity throughout the cold war. A new statue of the same design was finally added after German re-unification. My wife and I used to live in Simmern. We were close to Koblenz and used to go there often. Great model shops and the Wehrtechniche Museum which had a great military history book and model shop attached to it.


Cheers,

Glen