TOY SOLDIERS: Last additions. Edited 2025

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Steadfast set… I have asked for the nurses (both) and the Medical officer (fourth from the left)

My armies have no casualties, sorry about that… for me Toy Soldiers never die… and of course I found annoying the idea of wounded and streach-bearers… I am particular about that. So there you have it… I bought the nurses… the doctors… an on purpose incomplete set (NO wounded etc.).

Messing up with WBritains Bengal Lancers (I)
Second caption (II)

A Bengal lancers mess… LOL A silly tale of collecting… last year (about December) I discovered the sets WBritains had done in the late nineties… so far so good… bought some sets… The Bengal lancers two sets of each matter of fact so to have 4 lancers (I am hooked on lancers)… and then what to do with the 2 redundant figures (I did not want 2 buglers and 2 officers…)… then I asked Antony Spencer to do some arms and heads conversions… all went well… until I messed up myself with them… I had two dark blue buglers (Hodson’s Horse?)… now one is a standard-bearer (A.S.) and the other a Native Officer (I did that changing an arm myself… LOL) RESULT: NO bugler at all!… so now I have to repaint a bugler from another set as Hodson’s Horse… see pics

I eventualy post a pic of the “new” painted bugler.

Luckily enough I did not messed up Skinner’s Horse and the 8 figures are OK.

There… new (repainted) bugler ready!… lacks gloss varnish…

Used the one on the left as a painting guide…
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3 paintjob conversions of redundant 21st lancers officers (transfered to other regiments or duties)
“new” 17th lancers subaltern
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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.