This video gives a step-by-step description of how I went about conserving and restoring the Ostergotland Musketeers—a regiment of plastic 30mm Spencer Smith miniatures from the collection of Charles S Grant, first painted in enamels by his father, the late Charles Grant, author of THE WAR GAME (1971) and many other books and magazine articles.
In addition, I obtained a number of balsa wood buildings of similar vintage that had also appeared in books penned by the Grants, père et fils, including the even earlier BATTLE, PRACTICAL WARGAMING (1970). You can see how these, too, received some love and attention, not just to preserve them for future generations, but also to ensure that they will survive use on my own wargames table.
I’m very lucky to have been offered this collection by Charles S Grant and I am grateful to him, as indeed I am to his late father, whose seminal work introduced me, in 1971, to the magical world of wargaming about which I have been passionate ever since.
Note: Spencer Smith miniatures are now cast in white metal, not plastic, and the business has now been sold to Wee Wolf Miniatures in the USA, though production has not yet restarted.
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