54MM Toy Soldiers. Cleaning up and messing with bits and pieces.

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Ok. Now proceeding to adjust and do things that were on standby for a quite a time… using replacement pieces (arms, heads, etc) and even disassembling W.Britains damaged horses (one I did broke myself and the other horse come without a tail…)

I learned to disassemble the horses using a vice, a screwdriver and a hammer! (long years messing with toy soldiers without using a hammer!). But so far so well, I did a “new” horse with two different parts (one from each horse – a bit with tail and a bit with a good rear leg -) see pics (worth a thousand words).

So, now only remains to paint them.

In the meantime I elaborated a kepi of a French Adjudant FFL, Put a flag arm on a redundant figure, painted the flag of a Bengal Lancer… and planning to reuse the broken bits before ever contemplating throwing them away to the bin

Enjoy! (Surely it is fun to repair things and give them a second chance!)

A part of my collection consists of Bengal Lancers in Parade Dress, I first got the Tradition of London dismounted figures at the front, and then bought some W.Britains Centenial sets to have the mounted Toy Soldiers… as usual I elaborated a bit and got for the mounted sets a British Officer, an Indian Officer and a Stndardbearer… buying two sets of each it gives you two “redundant” figures a bugler and an officer… Antony Spencer from DORSET SOLDIERS did some of the conversions… and I did the rest. Nearly finished.
A simple paintjob transform an officer of Hodson’s Horse (Blue tunic) into a Governor’s Bodyguard Officer (red tunic). Quite easy and straighforward.
As it was broken… why not try to repair?
Success with the first quickly implied disassemble the next one…
Now, using the two unbroken parts… a horse with a good rear leg and tail appears… (add a new head and right arm… and a brand new Toy Soldier will be added to the collection)
Works in process as described… Bengal Lancers, “New General”, “New Flag”, “NEW headgear for the FFL Adjudant… etc.

Author: Alejo Dorca

Born in 1952. Married in 1976. Two sons and a daughter. 4 grandsons to date, 3 boys and a girl. Arquitect in 1978. Retired in 2016 aprox. Lifelong Toy Soldiers aficionado.