Flats III

A FINAL selection of photos of zinnfiguren from Weimar.

Flats II

WEIMAR city museum held a major exhibition of zinnfiguren 70 years ago, which, as curator Marbot Gerstenhauer points out, was before the Berlin Wall was built, and an anniversary exhibition was held 20 years later.

Here are more photos from the current exhibition, which runs to April 12.

Flats

I SPENT a week in the former East German city of Weimar last month.

Weimar promotes itself as having been home to Goethe and Schiller

I fear that is of little interest to me, but what did catch my attention was that the last full day of my visit coincided with the first day of an exhibition of zinnfiguren in the city museum.

Zinnfiguren - the word is German for tin figures - are arguably best-known in the English-speaking wargaming-world for having been extensively collected by Tony Bath.

The Battle of Trimsos, in Donald Featherstone's War Games (Stanley Paul, 1962), featured 30mm flats from Bath's collection.

But, as I discovered at the exhibition, not all zinnfiguren were 30mm, and not all were 2D.

Unfortunately, information about the figures, many set in attractive dioramas, was only available in German, and my German is next to non-existent.

But, to a certain extent, the photos speak for themselves.