February 2018 – Page 2 – My Toy Soldiers & Me

Artillery in 28mm

Those wheel to wheel batteries are really fearsome… imagine the size of the wargames table… Oh Dear!… that is in my past nowadays…

Enjoy.

It looks to me Russian by the green colour… but not sure.

Vintage Britain’s

Those old boxes have a charm of it’s own… unique maybe not… they were mass produced… but those who kept them in a lovely state are my own kind!

Enjoy for what it is.

I am currently in the middle of upgrading my units to 12 Infantry to play test AGW in my Table (it was longer than I thought to “clean up” the mess of my office)… Will probably confront my French Foreign Legion DORSET against British India Kakhi REPLICA… quite if the FASHODA incident had happened in Lybia somehow I do not have the heart (and time and money) to build a Prussian Army and “go to Dorking”… if you know what I mean… Now all depends on DORSET and REPLICA whom has to provide the missing minis to get those units to 12 Infantry per unit!. Enjoy

British Guards (a classic theme).

Somehow a monotonous subject, but as the Imperial Guard Grenadiers the most popular ever with collectors and wargamers alike. You can not buldt a 54mm toy soldier collection eluding those I guess… neither your wargaming Napoleonic French Army will do without the other… that’s how it is and would be. Enjoy

BRITAINS: More “B” series.

I am a Guards fan since young (I was born very young as Groucho Marx used to say)… somehow the pic seems to have catch the Guards with quite a slopiness rifles stance angle if you know what I mean… if they were in my collection some bending and regluing of arms would have been in order. But you need all sorts you know… Very nice pic. Enjoy.

Great minis and scenery… always thought the Guards got to carry their rifles at a steady angle…

BRITAINS “B” series (some conversions included I think)

Of course they look good! have not seen what can be done in 28mm? if these are 40mm aprox Toy Soldiers it is like painting a wall! (and I know recently done some painting in 54mm scale and there are lots of surfaces to be done!

Enjoy.

Lancers

Always have had a soft spot for lancers… do not ask me why… I do not know for sure… maybe the fluttering pennants?

The pis is part of a much larger collection… see the Highlander Pipers on the extreme right.. And the “marks” on the shelve on the left indicate the old presence of foot toy soldiers… I think I have already posted other pics from the collector but today I have no time to check… Stefano Allorini! (have checked). Enjoy

Old one’s

I guess they must be MIGNOT… but not a 100% sure about it!

Starting to work on a list for REPLICA and. IMPERIAL/DORSET (yes at the same time)… finally decided to adapt my 54mm “action” Toy Soldiers to AGW units… not much fuss at all… but 12 is the magic number for Infantry units! Thankfully Cavalry and Artillery are already OK. I will slightly tweak a bit the rules because I am like that… and the set encourages to do so.

Boxes of Toy Soldiers. “The gift”

That was that at the beginning of the hobby a wee box of shiny soldiers… much later they would lose that shine (see the Artillery)… but not their charm at all.

So many of us started like this! Enjoy.