HISTOREX

In 1962, a French manufacturer of miniature airplanes, René Guillet, who also made soft plastic figures that were given away with a well-known brand of coffee (Mokarex), contacted Eugène Leliepvre, official painter of the French army and a wonderful miniaturist. This is how the brand of HIstorex figures was born, which creates a huge collection of figures in the form of a plastic kit of the Napoleonic armies. The birth of Historex represents a true revolution in the world of military miniatures. Creating thousands of precision parts allowed miniaturists an almost infinite number of possibilities to build their own figures.

I am passionate about Historex figures. They still seem magical to me. Nowadays the less quality pieces (heads and hands) can be replaced by others made of resin and the result is phenomenal.

A curiosity: the color guides for painting the figures are Leliepvre's extraordinary watercolors. Here we reproduce some. I remember that I bought my first Historex figure in a model shop near the port of Alicante. At that time I was sailing in the Merchant Navy and visits to the model shops that were in the different ports were mandatory.