Shiny toy soldier style painted Hing Fat 54mm Russians on the painting table awaiting the gloss varnish of victory …
Crossposted from my Pound Store Plastic Warriors blog – some more interesting Hing Fat 54mm plastic sample figures gifted to me by Peter Evans. (Thanks Peter.)
What, no Soviet women in these 54mm figures? Annie Norman of Bad Squiddo Games is producing a new range of 28mm Soviet women of WW2 on Kickstarter and then via her web shop. I don’t collect or play with 28mm figures at the moment but I have bought several vignette packs of her interesting female figures like her Land Girls. https://badsquiddogames.com
Hello I'm Mark Mr MIN, Man of TIN. Based in S.W. Britain, I'm a lifelong collector of "tiny men" and old toy soldiers, whether tin, lead or childhood vintage 1960s and 1970s plastic figures.
I randomly collect all scales and periods and "imagi-nations" as well as lead civilians, farm and zoo animals. I enjoy the paint possibilities of cheap poundstore plastic figures as much as the patina of vintage metal figures.
Befuddled by the maths of complex boardgames and wargames, I prefer the small scale skirmish simplicity of very early Donald Featherstone rules.
To relax, I usually play solo games, often using hex boards. Gaming takes second place to making or convert my own gaming figures from polymer clay (Fimo), home-cast metal figures of many scales or plastic paint conversions. I also collect and game with vintage Peter Laing 15mm metal figures, wishing like many others that I had bought more in the 1980s ...
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I am looking forward to painting more samples, next the Italians. I also want to finish repairing my old childhood Airfix 1:32 Russians as Forces for an ImagiNations game.
Some nice work there Mark. At least one of those figures looks like an Airfix Russian, so they will certainly augment any Airfix Russian collection. I’ve got about twenty painted with another fifteen to complete but some overcoat additions would be nice. I plan to use the collection against my German WW2 and also my Zubrowkan ImagiNation (Grand Budapest Hotel) army.
Michael
I Hope it doesn’t confuse people but I put familiar 1:32 Airfix Russians alongside the Hing Vat figures for scale comparison, so these are not copies or pirate copies (which i think Hing Fat did in the past, like many Hong Kong /China firms?) I think the two sets of figures work well enough. I also have some 1:32 Atlantic Russians which I painted as a child too (somewhere).
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These have painted up very nicely Mark. They look the part and fit in fine with Airfix. Looking forward to seeing more and perhaps a game too…
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I am looking forward to painting more samples, next the Italians. I also want to finish repairing my old childhood Airfix 1:32 Russians as Forces for an ImagiNations game.
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Some nice work there Mark. At least one of those figures looks like an Airfix Russian, so they will certainly augment any Airfix Russian collection. I’ve got about twenty painted with another fifteen to complete but some overcoat additions would be nice. I plan to use the collection against my German WW2 and also my Zubrowkan ImagiNation (Grand Budapest Hotel) army.
Michael
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I Hope it doesn’t confuse people but I put familiar 1:32 Airfix Russians alongside the Hing Vat figures for scale comparison, so these are not copies or pirate copies (which i think Hing Fat did in the past, like many Hong Kong /China firms?) I think the two sets of figures work well enough. I also have some 1:32 Atlantic Russians which I painted as a child too (somewhere).
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Fine work with these Russians, they seem to go effortlessly with their Airfix comrade.
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From a distance they should fit well together.
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