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I am too old to travel like that (on a whim), I do not fear flying at all do not be silly, but I do not like been treated like cattle at Airports, the delays, the inconfort, the reduced spaces, the lack of good manners of the general public, and enough of that… I only travel if I can drive my car to it.
So, why this Post at all?
Because I am giving you some shots and a link.
Tel el Kebir in glorious 54mm gloss toy soldiers sponsored by the ITSC (International Toy Soldier Club) and REPLICA METAL MODEL SOLDIERS (both of them in fact are Andrew Stevenson creations).
First the pics,
Now, the link to a YouTube where there is an interview of Andre Stevenson (on his Major General outfit -moustache is real-).
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVnObdTkVRI
Interview runs from minute 7:21 to 9:02 (for those of you who are always “on the run”)
Splendid Toy Soldiers, active new original poses or stances in the cherished Old Britains style… BUT BRAND NEW!… no lead rot… no extravagant auction prices… bespoke orders!… Boy! was the find of my late collecting times!…
Curiously enough I have mentioned to Andrew many times the fact that he is doing the Toy Soldiers I (wrongly) asumed andthought Briatins did make when I was a child… and I could not get (no market in Spain, no Internet, no Mail Order, no nothing, this is pure anachronism I am rambling about!). It is funny!… THEY DID NOT EXIST!… can you remember or wish for something that did not exist?… so my NOSTALGIA was fake! LOL
Nonplussed nowadays with my modest collection of them.
Andrew went to the Chicago Toy Soldier Fair last year and will probably repeat the experience… the fact that some boxes of Toy Soldiers (USA Infantry) went from the UK to the USA and back again to the UK because not all of them sold (A thing that eludes me completely!)… made me have the “need” to get them of course (now they are in Andorra… a couple of boxes… and waiting for some reinforcements any day now!). Will add pics of them hereby.
ENJOY!