There has been a bit more talk and pondering on the subject of  the Napoleonic 20mm Economy Line…

To that end I’m posting the text, from the 1968 Scruby catalog concerning this line of figures.

Remember the following text is from the 1968 catalog; availability, metal composition and pricing do not apply to any current HistoriFigs product offerings.

For the war gamer who has an eye on his pocketbook, we are designing a new line of SCRUBY ECONOMY MINIATURES cast in metal, in both 20 and 30mm scale. These models will be cast in battery—molds and are simplified versions of some of our best and most popular war game figures.

Our object in doing this is to put a good quality, economically priced figure on the market for the war game player who wants mass armies. Most of the SCRUBY ECONOMY MINIATURES will be of the type of soldier that made up the “bulk” of the “Conscript armies” that began during the Napoleonic wars.

For example, in a French Napoleonic Battalion, the buyer could use 10 Grenadiers and 10 Voltigeurs of the regular Scruby Miniatures for his elite companies; and forty Scruby Economy Models for the Fusilier companies, which formed the bulk of the battalion.

The difference between a Regular Scruby Miniature and the ECONOMY MINIATURES-is that the latter have been re—designed so they can be cast quickly and easily in battery molds. They lack such details as bayonets and sword scabbards, and have little or no “undercuts, all of which makes a figure more realistic, but that much more difficult to cast.

Because two to four castings can be cast at one time, costs are reduced also, and these savings can be passed on to you in lower prices of the models.

SCRUBY ECONOMY MINIATURES ARE CAST OF 50/50 TIN—ALLOY METAL, THE SAME AS OUR HIGH-QUALITY STANDARD MODELS. BECAUSE OF THEIR ORIGINAL LOW PRICES, NO VOLUME DISCOUNTS ARE ALLOWED.

3OMM SCRUBY ECONOMY MINIATURES…. 15¢ each

20MM SCRUBY ECONOMY MINIATURES…. 12¢ each

(Postage additional)

THE NAPOLEONIC WARS…. 30mm Scale

T-1….French and/or Prussian Fusilier, firing
T-2…. French and/or Prussian Fusilier, on guard
T-3…. British Regular, Waterloo shako, firing
T-4…. British Regular, Waterloo shako, on guard

THE NAPOLEONIC WARS….. 20mm Scale

B-1….. French and/Prussian Fusilier, firing (can be painted as either)
B-2….. French and/or Prussian Fusilier, advancing
B-3….. French and/or Prussian Fusilier, on guard
B-4….. British Regular, firing (Waterloo shake)
B-5….. British Regular, on guard (Waterloo shako)
B-6….. Austrian Musketeer, 1809 helmet, firing
B-7….. Russian Musketeer, 1812, firing
B-8….. Russian Musketeer, 1812, on guard

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Look for more on this topic in the coming days…