Baskervilles vignette, 25mm

[Kevin Hendryx]

Ahoy!

I wanted to share this delightful image from the website of the Wargames Foundry (UK); really nicely painted and photographed scene from a very familiar story!

The raw 25mm metal miniature figurines are available as part of this set:

https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/products/fc02-victorian-gentlemen?_pos=2&_sid=f110e04f2&_ss=r 

Altho' THIS collection has an entirely different pose for "classic Sherlock"

There's been a number of toy soldier Holmes & Watsons over the years but these are some of the best.  People like a  chance to use them in tabletop hobby gaming, or just to paint and display. 

Cheers --

Kevin

[Rudy Altergott]

Pretty cool!

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[Max Magee]

That is interesting—look at who else they chose to highlight:

I don't believe Bernie the Board Man is familiar to me, but in searching for references to him, I discovered this...interesting film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQLg1tisU9w

The Sandwich Man (1966) and just in time for lunch!

Max

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Those are adorable! Thank you for sharing. But Sherlock with a gun? I think of him like Batman, never shooting anyone. 

Johanna Draper Carlson
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[Max Magee]

Oh, I think Sherlock did his bit of gun-toting and killing. A couple of gruesome dog killings (Watson killing Carlo in Copper Beeches and Holmes pumping the Hound full of hot lead in the HotB's) and Holmes' target practice indoors, as mentioned in The Dying Detective and Musgrave Ritual come to mind:

"Holmes, in one of his queer humors, would sit in an arm-chair with his hairtrigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.R. done in bullet-pocks..." -MUSG

HOWEVER, I agree that I do think of Watson's service revolver and Holmes' insistence that his partner be packin' is the more usual situation.

Max

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[Kevin Hendryx]

An interesting question arises -- a southpaw friend of mine commented on how happy he was to see that particular Watson miniatures firing left handed. IS Watson left handed?  Does the Canon specify this one way or the other?   Or was the sculptor just indulging an artistic whim?

Kevin

[Max Magee]

Almost certainly not in the stories, even if he were in real life, it's likely he wouldn't have claimed it.

Sidney Paget drew him as firing his revolver with his right hand in COPP:

Running up, I blew its brains out.

In other media, I believe Jeremy Brett was actually a lefty, but he practiced and insisted on performing Sherlock Holmes as right-handed on camera. This source claims that a hand-double was used for instances when it was convenient:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0107950/trivia/

Max