Military Miniatures (1966)

[@92GreyBlue]

A wife like her only comes around once in a hundred years or so... truly an extremely blessed man.

[@RolandoRatas]

Mrs Hinton is my dream woman.

[@benji.B-side]

Man on a first date: "I like making and playing with toy soldiers" Woman: "Oh so do I, very much so" Man: " MARRY ME!!!!!!!"

[@BlueGoblin1]

Correction. She loves doing so in cosplay.😳

[@CasperTheRamKnight]

relatable.

[@pracylopgonzer3176]

The saying that went around when I was a boy was “ when they’re young & little boys like to play with soldiers & girls like to play with dolls. When they grow older it’s the opposite”

[@BigMrFirebird]

And she did :)

[@doverh3]

What a lovely hobby! Wonderful to have a wife to play and share with you.

[@jimm9937]

I started collecting Hinton Hunt 25mm back in 1970. Still have them. Now, I collect 15mm...over 10,000 at this point. Great hobby...it never gets old

[@BigMrFirebird]

Absolutely.

[@arnoldJohnson2610]

you're a legend mate.

[@jollywyrm5684]

60's gamer girl

[@andrewchesler2029]

hot !

[@bar123k5]

LOLLL

[@Gabbiano88]

They look happy

[@jebcekkek9448]

20 years later:girl for games

[@ztuzar163]

i dream of becoming a time traveling simp

[@bjmaxwell7426]

expensive authentic gear, all the miniatures a man could want and a cute little number he gets to dress up in period appropriate outfits to really get in the mood. damn...this guys got it made.

[@rogueriderhood1862]

Living the dream!

[@zuludown88]

>"And these fierce fighting Vikings!" >Dude clearly made Gauls

[@magimon91834]

I was gonna say, I love how the napoleonics are supposed to be accurate as hell but the pre gunpowder stuff is subject to being hundreds of years off

[@augustin5611]

@@magimon91834 I was about the say the same. But at the time early medieval times and before were basically fantasy.

[@apalahartisebuahnama7684]

And they wear the damn horned helmets.

[@mr.spider6859]

@@apalahartisebuahnama7684 The helmets are correct, the problem is that none of those guys are Vikings.

[@flitsertheo]

Marcus Hinton died in 1988 in his mid-fifties. So he is only in his thirties in this movie. His wife's name was (or is) Cynthia and she was a former artists' model.

[@gstgst6334]

So you're saying she's available!

[@flitsertheo]

@@gstgst6334 Let's estimate she was 30 in 1966 so born in 1936. 88 years in 2024. She could still be available if you like to take care of elderly women. Note that I checked her hands to estimate her age.

[@JamesX-y7d]

Beautiful, and a woman to share your hobby! He was a lucky man indeed. Had to chuckle at the narrator's 1:40 "British frontier fort" (you mean Hougoumont?).

[@martonk]

That's a good eye you have for Waterloo buildings 😁

[@evanhamlett6350]

@@martonk there is a pretty famous painting of that scene to be fair and it was a defining moment in the battle, very surprised the narrator couldn’t see it

[@flitsertheo]

If it wasn't for the French opponents I would not have dismissed the idea of a frontier fort. That wall did not really appear to be part of a solid Brabantian farm such as Hougoumont or la Haie Sainte. Soil is too dry, too sandy also.

[@JohnyG29]

Yeah, it's obviously Hougoumont.

[@SlaaneshiChaplain]

Good lord, what a well crafted and beautifully war-painted model in traditional regimental attire. And the miniatures aren’t bad either.

[@landsurfer66]

My kind of woman.

[@wangsakamoto573]

Hello bae

[@bane2007]

You can pay one to do that and start from there

[@Whimpy13]

@@wangsakamoto573 ÒwÓ

[@crappymeal]

Lol geek

I love women

[@xxelaxela333]

Watches this video, looks at wife... What have I done wrong in my life

[@igegan1]

Yeah I can't get mine to look at my 40k Armies.... chu.... :-)

[@underhorse5367]

@@igegan1 You should glad she didn’t throw out those space marines as garbage

[@honeybear278]

@@underhorse5367 this is what i Tell me whole time. She doesnt have to Love it. Iam Glad she don't hate IT.

[@igegan1]

@@underhorse5367 I detect HERESY!!

[@sovietblobfish2330]

Can confirm

[@dougssoldiers1929]

His hot wife was certainly talented.

[@chiefrocka680]

They both were

[@davedogge2280]

My dream woman 1:55

[@ztuzar163]

does she have an onlyfans account ?

[@tr9809]

The perfect marriage!

[@annodomini7887]

The wife is quite the kitty!

[@andrewchesler2029]

I would like to know, what she would say to my Blood Angels...

[@Mechabang]

I believe that she'd prefer Imperial Guard.

[@andrewchesler2029]

@@Mechabang Mordians ? :-)

[@sovietblobfish2330]

Moistness

[@benjaminthefox]

"Historically inaccurate"

[@andrewchesler2029]

@@benjaminthefox she cannot know what will be in the future ;P

[@nowhereman6019]

Every mini painters dream.

[@RoachChaddjr]

We have some beautiful crafts, I grew up collecting Hornby trains and I still keep them around.

[@AllCatsAreBlack]

even her eyeliner work is awesome

[@andrewpaterson494]

An attractive younger wife who understands collecting and is willing to dress up for you. Lucky sod

[@RolandoRatas]

Mrs Hinton was one in a million.

[@infoscholar5221]

The closest I ever came to this was 1980s Battletech, with about 50 figures on a topographical table. The hobby shop owner had it set up in a back room for Waterloo, as he was a big old school war gamer, so he played these type games, they took days. Much beer and arm chair history.

[@gunner678]

I still have his book from 1966.

[@Roman-ey3yi]

When the set designer goes nuts! Producer:"yeah, we're going to put these decorations in place." Manufacturer: "But, I just look at the books" Producer: "It'll look cooler than your warehouse, ok. Also do you have larger miniatures?" Manufacturer: "Most of the time i sell 15 maybe 25mm scaled figures" Producer: "Psssst, the camera cant pick up 25 millimeters!" and so the 50mm range was born

[@seol9131]

Proper couples bonding!

[@flukislucas]

im surprised not to see Lloyd from Lindybeige leave a comment

[@bobdmz6437]

Can’t believe this guy played for the Oakland raiders and made miniatures. And I thought Peter Cushing was the only wargaming polymath.

[@BigMrFirebird]

Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward, Derek Guyler and Henry Cavill.

[@theBaron0530]

Those were top-of-the-line in the 60s. Today, most collectors and painters turn their noses up at them. I collect them, though, along with Staddens, Rose, and other figures made back then. They still paint up nicely. @1:46 That's not a "British frontier fort", that looks like the defense of Hougoumont during the Battle of Waterloo. @1:48 Looks like Prussians from the Napoleonic wars, marching past their Austrian allies who offer a salute.

[@glenchapman3899]

Yes my pockets were never deep enough for 25mm For me the humble 15mm won me many a battle lol

[@miked3038]

Superb. What a great couple.

[@ontheisland11]

The days when a gentleman dressed in tie, waistcoat and jacket to work on his figures. They had standards back then.

[@drewdavies3010]

She is taking this so much more seriously than him

[@torq42]

Lovely piece of film.

[@thekingshussar1808]

The ideal couple doesn't exist-

[@jonaspianomusic3101]

THE WORLD BEFORE TOTAL WAR SERIES:

[@rogerflack415]

"Here's a British frontier fort under siege"... Love it. Unusually for a journalist, he got it completely wrong.

[@rogueriderhood1862]

Probably just reading from a script without seeing the film.

[@HAL-mg4wy]

1:04 Modern Virgin Warhammer painter: NOOOO you can't paint straight from the pot!!! 60's Chad Napoleonic gamer girl: haha thick coat of paint goes SPLOSH.

[@spykespykerman7497]

Cool as. Those figurines are really detailed! Thankyou for sharing.

[@johnrusselljr89]

I remember those days clearly ❤!

[@waiyanlinkhant2680]

I got lucky and found a 5 pound bag of them but they weren't made by them and weren't that detailed. It costed me like $70 for that!

[@toysoldier68]

Lucky man ;-) Great video!

[@rexmage]

Handling all that lead with your bare hands. Oof. Oh and they disagreed on rules even back then? War. Was never changes.

[@sam74mumm]

This quote aged well as we know from the fallout series.

[@Mystycmynd]

Imagine paying 2.50 for a painted war hammer model lol

[@twostep1953]

The music is "Wellington's Victory". I still have the album; on the other side was "1812 Overture". Both have real cannons and muskets being fired! The irony being that Beethoven hated royalty and originally named it for Napoleon - until he claimed the crown for himself. But it took about a decade before the British (or anyone else) beat the French (Talavera, I think).

[@minhkhoaluong25]

Damn, lead figures and enamel paint in a room, what a great combination

[@matthewskudzienski888]

It would be awesome and cool with battle sets and and paintings.

[@connormorris7364]

0:18 bro those finger nails tho

[@gooseywhispers]

Gross ha

[@jimchumley2982]

Nasty, he should either trim them or paint them or trim them.

[@najkraemer3117]

1:22 are gauls

[@joshmcirish352]

I was just going to say the same thing.

[@kevinlewis8284]

what is the name of the music please ? I love it ;)

[@5ilenu5]

Beethoven 'Battle Symphony/Wellington's Victory'??

[@Corneliusoco]

Unpainted= 1 pounce Painted= about 10 pounce Warhammer 40 miniaturees wich are unpainted and you need to build yourself= 60 euro or dollars

[@percyblok6014]

Why do people do Warhammer to themselves? Just a gateway to much better things.

[@JohnyG29]

Pound*

[@percyblok6014]

Oh, the eye shadow!

[@cosmicsprings8690]

Thank you Absolutely fabulous insights Darling ✨🌼🌿🍄🌞🍄🌿🌼✨

[@MarksWorkshopcrft]

If me and my wife aren’t doing this together in our 30s, I ain’t doing nun at all then 😂

[@xTrix2Kx]

Flicking lead particles everywhere as he sculpts...

[@knightcore88]

1:40 General Lee, is that you?

[@ronaldmcdonald8303]

Do you know where I can get some aluminium toy soldiers? I can't seem to find any!

[@Arantonak]

She 100% wore that uniform in the bedroom.

[@Sol_Seraph]

A nerd is a nerd in any decade

[@JonSteitzer]

Love seeing him rawdoging lead

[@RolandoRatas]

1 and 9 pence for a miniature !!? Games Workshop loves inflation !

[@collectorguy4379]

Love how this old video has got recycled now Love that woman too lol

[@apalahartisebuahnama7684]

Wish I'm that skillful so I could create some myself.

[@TheKaen]

What scale are those?

[@Mechabang]

I wanna say 22mm, I think, but I can't tell exactly in this video.

[@DerRamantis]

Relationship goals

[@timothybranford8754]

Please tell me I can still buy these figures?

[@hiimryan2388]

Its called robbing, very simple

[@d3203]

you can still make them yourself if you buy lead and melt it. But there are other alternativs like tin, otzer metals or resin.

[@flitsertheo]

I found quite a few on Ebay. Available from the USA (could be from the company that bought some of the moulds) or the UK (probably original).

[@rwdyeriii]

@Timothy Branford , Sir you can buy molds for these figures from Prince August Molds or you can now get them 3D printed in resin.

[@anthonyfrias5533]

I just love minatures

[@peezebeuponyou3774]

British frontier fort- never knew we had those in Belgium... . Bit of a dark horse our Marcus- the randy old goat, lol.

[@grantkruse1812]

Cosplay is nothing new...

[@jeanclaudejunior]

My goodness this is before warhammer and Games Workshop

[@tangcheesum5418]

Wish I have all these items

[@alifr4088]

It would be a shame if someone melt those lead figurine and use it for musket round balls *1776 Flashbacks*

[@santiagoamado9056]

That patriot film

[@abbush2921]

Lead figures no gloves ah love that 1960's health and safety !

[@samwessels8216]

video: talks about how acurate these figures are vikings: hello! we have horned helmets!

[@NathanielWinkelmann]

And this still happens. I just got a couple of sets that offer horned helms as options. Now there are enough heads to ignore those and every thing else seems accurate, but why?

[@zuludown88]

From the clothing, the severed head, etc. -- more likely that they're supposed to be Gauls

[@HO-bndk]

They are Celtic warriors. One wears a La Tene cuirass and the other wears the "Belgic" horned helmet from the Thames.

[@ThePenguinMejia]

So wholesome

[@lethalantdog4901]

That 40k was born

[@FF3241Z]

I want these soo bad.

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

Cool

[@ByCrom]

She was a babe for '66 and shes into geeky stuff! Awesome!

[@mohamadal-amin802]

How to win?

[@kylejohnson423]

Gotta say, her makeup is on point.

[@robnewman6101]

Wow. Interesting.

[@WarhammerWings]

Ironic that what he'd have considered modern 2 decades earlier is what we call historical.

[@MajorBorris]

There's a man with taste.

[@-18]

Wow, this video is also very good. Why does it have so many fewer likes than the 1970 one?

[@DartLuke]

Where is imperial guards?

[@19platten20]

She's a 8/10 for a Britain though...

[@rpm1796]

Attention!💂‍♂️

[@hiimryan2388]

YES SIR

[@raymondpiper8294]

You must be thinking , how the hell did he, pull that woman .

[@flitsertheo]

They both like playing with miniature soldiers. That's all you need.

[@Mc23720]

This looks really fun to play with my cousins in mexico

[@GeoffreyBronson]

All I can say, is thank god for agrax earthshade and nuln oil.

[@haterhater4344]

Does any one know about this thing I have came across quite a few times? Especially from places biased against the British, they would say the english instead of the British. For example, I think the narrator at the end of the video was trying to copy that style.

[@Dethmeister]

But the narrator is British.

[@G_Signer]

legendary level wargaming

[@hyp3r-systems838]

why did they use lead for mini's?? they had plastic in the 1960s, and they couldve used other non toxic metals if they didnt want to use plastic

[@flitsertheo]

Lead can be poured by hand, plastic not as you need a plastic injection molding machine.

[@rwdyeriii]

Also lead is not a toxic material for handling. Lead is only toxic when ingested.

[@terratorment2940]

I usually dress down to paint I'm surprised they're so dressed up

[@abundantYOUniverse]

And that lasted about two weeks until Mr's Hinton discovered the milkman.

[@flitsertheo]

Who was way better at tabletop wargaming.

[@abundantYOUniverse]

@@flitsertheo And Calligraphy

[@opoze6329]

and then, games wokshop arrived

[@percyblok6014]

And did nothing but find all the suckers. Historic wargaming has always been where it's at.

[@rwdyeriii]

Yes GW arrived and ruined the hobby in my humble opinion.

[@conflictbricks8330]

Nice

[@vakondkiss2291]

Lucky guy!

[@stonemorris5356]

My dream office...

[@thothheartmaat2833]

paint me ms hinton...

[@CasperTheRamKnight]

damn,thats nice,heh.

[@robertheller4583]

Anime figures: finally a worthy opponent our battle will be legendary

[@tomaslopez2940]

1:47 American Civil War?

[@sotis1756]

Yep