Vereinigung freie Zinnfigurensammler e.V. - Yearly presentation 2024

Hi, 

this post is about the yearly presentation of the club "Vereinigung freie Zinnfigurensammler" of which I am a member of.

In former times there had almost been only flats and traditional round miniatures. But nowadays you can find almost every variation of figures.

The clubmembers always meet every first friday of the month for showing parts of their collections, having conversation about our hobby and museum worth to have a look at. These meetings only last for about 3 hours.

Every year there is a bigger public exhibition held by the club where the members can show greater parts of their collection and also dealers offer their stuff for a whole day. It is not a huge but a fine exhibition and I like to go there very much. Sometimes you can get some real bargains like I did this year.

So - here is the photo-tour.

Cheers

Mike

This vignette was my favourite one at the show.

The modeller had a booklet with photos of the modelling process.

No wonder that this guy had won a bronze medal within a competition.

Michael Terheggen is well known within the club for his huge formations of flats.

Thomas Ziegler is another member who is also known for huge presentations.

A Prussian bataillon 1757 in 1/2.

There are not only military figures to look at. Asterix and Obelix very nicely painted.

Thomas Ziegler (right) is also a reenactor for Romans in the 3rd century.

He and another member of his group told very interesting information
about the Roman army of this time.

Matthias Manske with his own built range of 40mm figures that suit very well to the former
ranges of Nürnberger Meisterzinn or Prince August.

A very nice display of the Tyrolean Rebellion - reminds of my own project in 28mm that is part of
my personal pile of shame.

These figures´ painting was stunning.

One of my bargains for my personal collection. Never heard of this manufacturer.

But they look very good.

This had been the best deal.

Though this figure needs some restauration - 5 Euros is a real bargain.

Comparison of the sizes - in the middle one of my favourite JohnJenkins figures.

I got this vignette for free for having bought the two 
sets of Napoleonic soldiers.

It is 54mm, so it does not fit to my other collection.
But - it was free and looks good.