Syntown Miniatures

 

Back in the later 80's Chris Coxon moved on from working at Poste Militaire (alongside the legendary Ray Lamb) and formed Syntown Miniatures. I managed to snag a few of the sculpts on eBay a while back and recently found a thread on Planet Figure from which the information here comes. All the first images are off the website and c/o Chris Coxon, Ian Haynes and Mirosoft (who until recently had a wonderful site dedicated to old school model listings). They are put here purely for informative purposes and remain their copywrite.

Hi I worked for Poste Militaire with Ray Lamb in the 1970's then in the 8o's ran my own model figure company Syntown Miniatures, all 90mm white metal figures. I know Poste Militaire closed down a few years back now but I was wondering if Ray Lamb was still around? I'm now a works manager for a small engineering firm up in Birmingham UK

Cheers

Chris Coxon

This was back from 2017 and he managed to get back in contact with Ray Lamb.

The miniature MP44 and MG34 were the favourite items I sculpted, the MG34 being made from no less than 27 seperate pieces of brass, copper, pewter & steel metals soldered together, the MP44 was not far behind it in complexity I will dig out some of my old photos if I can find them. Im amazed these ads survived - :)

Ian Haynes then posted pictures of a bunch of sculpts etc that had been passed to him. I gather they were passed back to Chris Coxon who had said there may be some news but nothing has been mentioned since April 2021...

And finally on to my own images... these are meant to be part of a four figure vignette so there must be (in theory) at least one more out there... let me know!

VGD-1 German Volksgrenadier Ardennes, January 1945

This one came with the photo below.

VGD-2 Grenadier of the 352nd Volksgrenadier Division, January 1945

VGD-3 Volksgrenadier, Radio Operator. Ardennes, January 1945

Accessories

(no idea if this is complete etc)

So that's all the information I can get hold of. If you have any other listings or images please let me know. I've tried to contact the image owners but have had no replies, if there any issues I'll obviously remove their pics. 

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