The Old Metal Detector: Catalogue

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Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Lamming Catalogue

Probably only the Lamming first series Napoleonics (see posts elsewhere) really fall within the scope of this blog, and a full list is available at Vintage20mil.

I was not a fan of the chunkification of the Napoleonics. However, I always had a soft spot for Lamming figures and had an opportunity once a year to buy them from the man himself, at an annual show. While not a fan of the Napoleonics (I did and do like the earlier versions) there was just something about the look of his Normans and Saxons, Vikings, oddly for me Romans, and most of all Medievals, that really appealed. Add to this in many cases separate heads and weapons, and you could achieve variety that was out of the question with other manufacturers.

Obviously this would be a great asset in one-to-one scale games and Lamming published a set of campaign and battle rules by Bill Lamming and T H Houltby. This allowed for exploration, castle building, cattle rustling and all sorts of goodies, backed up by 1/3000 scale medieval cogs.

My little burst of enthusiasm here is due to my trying to work through painting or refurbishing around 200 Lamming medieval figures. My basic painting style particularly falls short with anything requiring heraldry, but a few pictures of figures may appear at a later date to illustrate the listings posted below.

I found it particularly hard to find any resources on line about the Lamming ranges, apart from the history and Napoleonic listings at Vintage 20mil. So when I found a B&B Miniatures catalogue from around the year 2000 I thought it might be helpful to post up the listings of the various ranges, to make them accessible.

As far as I am aware these figures are not currently available.

Lamming Ancients

Lamming Medievals

From the B&B Miniatures catalogue, c 2000

Lamming Renaissance and English Civil War

Lamming Napoleonics

From the B&B Miniatures catalogue, c 2000

Lamming Horses

From the B&B Miniatures catalogue, c 2000

Lamming World War 2 list

From the B&B Miniatures catalogue, c 2000

Monday, 7 December 2009

Rose 1956 Catalogue

The pictures show the cover of the Rose Model Soldiers catalogue from Autumn 1956., and the section inside for the two War Game figures, advancing Waterloo English soldier and French Napoleonic Guard. There is no reference to the Wellington figure.

Friday, 27 November 2009

Rose 1965 Catalogue - Wargames

The 1965 Catalogue adds the mounted Napoleonic and the ACW figures to the listings in the 1960 Catalogue. It also includes photos of some of the figures and of the artillery equipment. Rob Young at Garrison has the French Cannon WG 5 in production, it is a nice clean model. I don't know whether the other guns and the limbers will be available in due course, or whether Rob has moulds for these - I will update this post when I find out.

I will add some pictures of Rose units as and when they become available to me.

Rose 1960 Catalogue - 1" High War Game Models

This is the earliest listing I have for the Rose Wargame Figures, from the two part 1960 Catalogue. It is interesting to see they are listed as 1" War Game Figures. The range contains all the Napoleonic foot figures, but none of the mounted. The Duke of Wellington figure already seems to have been discontinued at this time.

Tuesday, 10 March 2009

Alberken Ltd Metal 20mm Military Miniatures Catalogue and Price List May 1965

A bit of a treat: the Alberken Ltd catalogue from May 1965. Surprises include the availability of Gun and Crew Dioramas for Collectors, and how small the range of figures actually was. This I think is due to a tendency to describe all of the Miniature Figurines 20mm (HO/OO) figures as Alberken, whereas in fact many of these were new figures - put simply, all Alberken figures were also later Miniature Figurines 20mm figures, but not all Miniature Figurines 20mm figures had been in the Alberken range.

I hope you enjoy the catalogue.