Sunday, March 8, 2009

Figure identification: further photos and info

Several people have offered comment on the mystery figures in the last post, and I've had a couple of requests for further photos. Initial thoughts seem to be that Scruby is a good bet for the Austrian infantry on the left, while the grenadier has been described as Scruby-style but not a Scruby pose.

I took some time this morning to pull multiples of the two figures out of the bag so that I could take photos from multiple angles at once, and also dug out the standard bearer and drummer from the grenadiers, as I know standards are often a distinctive pose, particularly with this one having a molded on flag. As always, click on the picture for a larger view.

To answer a couple of questions, all figures are about 36-37mm tall from bottom of base to top of comb/bearskin, and about 30-31mm from sole of boot to roughly where the top of the head should be under the hat. They're very noticeably taller than Hinchcliffe 25mm Austrians, but only slightly taller than Spencer Smith SYW figures. None of them seem to have any markings on the bottom of the base.



2 comments:

ColCampbell50 said...

The figure(s) on the left are Scruby 30mm Bavarian Napoleonic infantry. I have that exact pose, except with a side plume on the casque, painted on my desk here at work. I also have five other Scruby 30mm Napoleonics. I got all of them in the early 1970s as a sample. The grenadier figure(s) on the right may well be Scruby 30mm Napoleonic as well.

Jim

ColCampbell50 said...

See my latest blog posting for a picture of a sample of 30mm Scruby Napoleonics, including the aformentioned Bavarian.

Jim