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An interesting mix of figures all beautifully painted.All the figures are beautifully photographed also.This is something i am now learning to do.Getting this right makes such a difference to the final video that you post.Very enjoyable content as always 🐒🐻🤗👍
That naval captain is an old Wargames Foundry figure so it could well be Copplestone. Originally it was named 'Malto Cortese' and was part of the Darkest Africa collection. At the time Foundry had a lot of character figures including historical personalities such as Burton, Speke, Livingstone etc. They were all accurate depictions based on photographs of the actual people. Whilst there was no real Malto Cortese, there is an Italian comic book hero called Corto Maltese and the Foundry figures bears a close resemblance to the way the comic portrays the hero. The fictional Corto Maltese had adventures in the early twentieth century, so Pulp era, and was therefore slightly out of place alongside the likes of Victorian explorers.
That is very interesting Ralph. I knew the sculpt had been around for a while but didn't know its origins. It's certainly not as chunky as the other miniatures, which fits with being an older Foundry sculpt.
‘A most Wonderfully eclectic collection of minis’ … sounds like a bloke that just make up his mind or just lacks the basic restraint to resist something ‘new and shiny’. Oh well, more Carthaginian War Elephants then!
