Anton Derbilov - the reality of war. Strelets Sculptor

 

It's not often that I go to research a range of miniatures and find myself touched by the horrors of war however this has hit me with the repercussions and futility of war. Anton Derbilov was the sculptor for Strelets plastic figures until he moved on to his own family run company Sirko Toys;

https://www.instagram.com/studio_sirkotoys/

There are more details of his passing here;

 https://gwaramedia.com/en/kharkiv-bids-farewell-to-fallen-soldier-and-sculptor-anton-derbilov/

An interview a month before he was killed;

https://gwaramedia.com/en/from-miniatures-creator-to-national-guard-soldier-story-of-anton-derbilov/

A lot of his work for Strelets is detailed here;

https://plasticsoldierreview.com/ManufacturerList.aspx?id=24

He also played banjo for 'Alcohol Ukelele' - worth a watch purely for the name alone...

https://www.youtube.com/c/AlcoholUkulele/videos

(image below off the internet on numerous sites)

RIP young man.

I was attempting to research some miniatures I had picked up a few years back, carded '28mm' fantasy and a bunch of loose ones. The company name given was Strelec*R. Possibly nothing to do with Strelets at all of course and no link to Anton himself. The dwarves I passed to Kevan over at Stunties 

http://www.stunties.com/stunties/index.php?title=Strelets.R

and the 'Empire' types I passed on to a Frother's Unite colleague. I still have a few somewhere but came across this goblin card whilst, as usual, searching for something else.

A lot, if not all, of the miniatures were taken on by Alionas Minatures (website now defunct) and Lost Minis gives this detail;

Alionas Miniatures was owned by Elena Brodskaja and opened in 2001 as a painting service but soon added a large range of miniatures sculpted, mainly, by Igor Karpov and Evgeny Nifedov. They appear to have been out of business by 2009 when the website went dormant with it going offline sometime in 2018. At least 2 catalogs existed: 2005 and 2007; they were published in both book and CD format.

So... if anyone has any details of these please let me know!

enquiries@deartonyblair.com