Even the product codes were based on the reference numbers for the book illustrations, something that serves as a great aid to identification for those of us who continue to collect and cherish these old wargames figures.
And ‘wargames figures’ is what they surely are. They are not the super-detailed or dynamic models that we see today – nor are they especially large! I would say they were ‘25mm’ when that meant an inch tall, give or take a bit. Even when my Carthaginians were brand new they were obliged to face opponents a head taller if nominally also ‘25mm’. The three big names in wargames figures of the early- to mid-’70s were Minifigs, Hinchliffe, and Garrison. It tells you something about the rate of production when you consider that the output of each company was largely the work of a single man. In the case of Minifigs this was the legendary Dick Higgs, engagingly described in the company’s adverts as the ‘Poor man’s Michelangelo’. Hinchcliffe’s offerings were the output of
