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Bill Lamming from Kingston-upon-Hull in East Yorkshire is best known for the chunky ancient and medieval and Renaissance figures &#; all with separate heads and weapons - he produced in the s.
These slightly toy-like, heavy-set and short-legged figures ("the joke that went around was that all Bill&#;s figures had his legs" recalls Terry Wise) feature extensively in the Bruce Quarrie edited PSL Guide to Wargaming and a unit of Romans is to be seen on the cover of Charles Grant&#;s Wargame Tactics.
Lamming&#;s early output was altogether more conventional in body-shape and far slimmer in build.
Lamming took up figure designing when he retired from the police force.
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His first models were some 54mm troops issued in when his company was named Lambro Products. At this time Lamming appears to have been working alongside Peter Kemplay &#; a figure painter and diorama maker from Skipton in North Yorkshire.
Kemplay later ran The Northern Garrison in Knaresbrough one of Lamming&#;