The old designer, Richard 'Dick' Higgs apparently sculpted using solder and a 25 watt soldering iron....the Sword & Sorcery range was one of the earliest fantasy ranges (their ME range in 1972 was, I believe, the earliest) based on the works of Robert E Howard...they even changed the names at some point after legal wrangles...I'd love to know more.......anyway, I'll start with the cavalry....pics of what I have and blanks of what I'm missing...as time goes on I'll hopefully fill the blanks in. The Lost Minis WIKI has some more pictured here but still not all....help! If you can correct anything misidentified let me know please! There was an early catalogue with a page of pics however my copy has disappeared and Richard (Stuff of Legends) Hale can't remember giving me a xerox of the relevant page ....aaaggghhh!!!
SSC1 Cimmerian Light Horse with (missing) spear (I think)
SSC2 (Caravan City Lancer) / Cimmerian Light Horse with sword
SSC3 Zamporan Spearman
SSC4 (Eastern Empire Light Horse) / Eastern Light Horse
Lancer
SSC5 (Eastern Kingdom Heavy Lancer) / Eastern Heavy Lancer
SSC6 (Eastern Empire Mounted Officer) / Eastern Officer
SSC7 (Eastern Empire Imperial Lancer) / Eastern Standard Bearer
SSC8 (Eastern Steppe Nomad Lancer) / Hykranian Light Horse
SSC9 (Steppes Swordsman) / Hykranian Officer
SSC10 Poitevan Knight with lance
SSC11 Aquitanean Knight with Battleaxe
SSC12 (Western Kingdoms Mounted Knight) / Aquitanean Knight
with Standard
SSC13 Mid Western Knight with lance
SSC14 (West Midland Kingdom Knight Lancer Mounted) / Mid
Western Mercenary
SSC15 (West Midland Kingdom Mounted Standard) / Mid Western
Standard Bearer
SSC16 (Southern Grassland Kingdom Bowman) / Shemite Horse archer
SSC17 Shemite Officer
SSC18 Vandan Lancer
SSC19 (Kingdom of the Hind Mace) / Vandan Officer
SSC20 (Desert Brigand Tribe Mounted Horsebow) / Desert
Horse Archer
SSC21 (Desert Brigand Tribe Chieftain) / Desert
Officer
SSC22 Hill Tribesman
SSC23 (Eastern Free City State Knight
Mounted) / Khojan Knight
SSC24 Khojan Lancer
SSC25 Khojan Officer
SSC26 (Black Kingdom Mounted Spearman) / Kushite Spearman
Not sure which these 2 are although they are (pretty certainly...) from this range.....
Edit - he's from the Alexander Nevski range. Lots of compatible figures in that range once Dave gets them all re-released.
(possibly SSC26) - thanks to Tim Peterson for correctly identifying this one below.
'The bottom picture is not from the S&S range, it's the later style adopted after they redid the old PB ranges, and is from a Personality range. It is presently available as IRCX 3 Dacian King.
I double checked with Caliver Books. (I was originally wrong as to the code, but I knew the series it was from.... from about 40 years ago. Gad I'm old, I still think of it as new...'
I had to leave the last bit in just to remind me that I'm not the only old school hobbyist around :)
'The bottom picture is not from the S&S range, it's the later style adopted after they redid the old PB ranges, and is from a Personality range. It is presently available as IRCX 3 Dacian King.
I double checked with Caliver Books. (I was originally wrong as to the code, but I knew the series it was from.... from about 40 years ago. Gad I'm old, I still think of it as new...'
I had to leave the last bit in just to remind me that I'm not the only old school hobbyist around :)
If you can help please give me a shout on enquiries@deartonyblair.co.uk
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I like the simplicity of the sculpts.
Kind of cheap looking.
You've got to think of how sculpts were back then. Different world!
The 2nd unidentified Knight is from the Alexander Nevsky range, I had a few in my Aquilonian Army in the 80s.
Thanks, I painted a bunch of the foot knights back in the day that I still have somewhere.
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