The Tradition of London Crimean War range captures one of the most dramatic and visually distinctive conflicts of the Victorian era — 54mm scale, gloss-painted by hand in London, in the tradition that has brought the mid-nineteenth century's most storied campaigns to collectors' shelves for generations.

This collection features the armies that fought on the Black Sea peninsula between 1853 and 1856. British redcoats of the line and the legendary 93rd Highlanders — the "Thin Red Line" at Balaclava — alongside the Light Brigade cavalry whose doomed charge has been studied and immortalized ever since. Around them, French Zouaves in their iconic red trousers and blue waistcoats, Ottoman troops, and Russian soldiers in dark green coats with their distinctive brass helmets. The 11th Hussars in their cherry-colored overalls, the 17th Lancers with their skull-and-crossbones pennants, and the commanders whose names became inseparable from the campaign — Raglan, Cardigan, Lucan, Nolan.

At 54mm, these figures represent the traditional collector scale — slightly smaller than the 1/30 (60mm) figures of modern matte makers, and visually unmistakable because of the gloss finish. The Crimean uniforms were among the last truly bright and ornate uniforms of the mass-army era, and the gloss-paint tradition renders their colors with the brilliance that made Victorian toy soldiers iconic.

Popular with British military history collectors, Charge of the Light Brigade enthusiasts, Victorian-era collectors, Highland regiment admirers, and anyone building a mid-nineteenth-century British campaign display.