Hinchcliffe video

[KeithS]

I came across this video today  via the FB Napoleonic wargamer group so I can't lay claim to any detective abilities.  A fascinating look at how figures were produced back then, I am guessing sometime back in the seventies.  I imagine that the process is fairly similar now, although the figures look to be 52mm or thereabouts there is a brief mention of smaller figures (25mm I guess).  Of course, 10mm scale were pretty much unheard in those days, so I don't know if the production techniques are different in other than size.  Anyway if you haven't seen it already enjoy:

[KeithS]

I remember buying Hinchcliffe 25mm figures back in the day, although since my purchasing power was limited to 50p a week pocket money and if I recall correctly an infantry figure was 10p I couldn't buy all that many.

[John Cook]

Of course, 10mm scale were pretty much unheard in those days, so I don't know if the production techniques are different in other than size.  Anyway if you haven't seen it already enjoy:

Thanks for posting that.  It took me back.  I remember Hinchliffe 54mm, and larger, figures very well.  Hinchliffe also produced 25mm wargames figures and there was another, smaller, range marketed as 'System 12' which appeared in the mid-1970s.  Minifigs had already established 15mm as a viable alternative to 25mm by then and, although 'System 12' were really very nice little figures, they were neither fish nor fowl and the range failed.  These might be the smaller figures alluded to.  Hinchliffe later went on to market the American Heritage range of 15mm figures in the UK.  Thanks again - very nostalgic.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I was waiting for the Kate Bush video...

[flamingpig0]

I was waiting for the Kate Bush video...

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Still got 1 Hincliffe figure - a general in my 25mm Acaminids

[howayman]

I still have a Hinchcliffe French army based for WRG and an Ancient British one which was the complete WRG list.

[Ben Waterhouse]

That was very nostalgic, many thanks for posting. I was buying my first Hinchliffes in Wakefield in 1975 with my pocket money... six per week...