PLAYMOBIL-PICS

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A collection of Playmobil pictures…

Napoleonic Customs… using stickers and resin headgear (Playmobil purists do not like at all… LOL)
Guard Inspection at the Castle
Piano playing… and look through the window… what do you see?… the other side of the Guards Inspection…
Trooping the Colour

As a summing up of the periods I was involved with in the decade or so I toyed with original Playmobils and customized a lot of them (to avoid enamels or painting a lot) with stickers, some felt pen additions and resin parts (mainly headgear), here you have a collection of pics quite self-explanation in themselves.

Wheeling the Line (Trooping the Colour)
Carthaginian Army.
Peloponnesian War
Second Punic War
SEcond Punic War
Hannibal
Ships and rol-playing a bit…
Close up
Naval combats
Close up.
XVIII Century Tricorne period… very easy to get the parts…
Spanish or Austrian Army (choose the flags and that’s it)
Grenadiers and similar… quite complicated headgear to get right.
Wargames in 75mm
Now in the Collections of my Grandchildren.
Only two ever Napoleonics I got… too complicated I guess…
Crimean War: Charge of the Light Brigade.
Another view.
ACW: The Horse Soldiers
ACW: Union Infantry
ACW: Confederate Infantry
ACW: Generals
Detail
Headgear makes the Man… or the soldier…
French Foreign Legion
Detail
RCMP
See OSPREY book.
7th Cavalry 1876
Ulundi
Abu Klea
Spanish 1920 tercio de extranjeros… aka Spanish Foreign Legion.

PLAYMOBILS as a fun skirmish alternative (mainly in my case)

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Playmobils (75MM Hard Plastic) are teorically “children’s toys”, so were lead toy soldiers.

I explained on my free book how I started collecting them, not going to repeat myself.

Aficionados usually go for very big dioramas, mainly historical.

Me, I play skirmish games with them. Not forgetting the posibility of medium size wargames as “King’s Sport” (mainly “lace wars” or “tricorne period”).

I decided to dedicate the 2020 year to them, so all Posts related are grouped there starting the topic as usual on January.

Hope someone enjoys!

Guess who?

Steve Snark’s Own Old Way. 54MM Classic wargame.

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It is a Boer war game. I put a stop on my own wargaming just before that. But it is impressive in a way.

Britain’s (it has been said before) never developed a proper ACW lot of figures, the majority were Boer Wars minis painted differently. Probably an exaggeration but with some truth in it…

I am sure Paul Watson appreciates!

Enjoy!

Simple but effective.
Look at the mounted General!
Boers
Line troops
Machine Gun!
Full Perspective
Artillery

All wargames deserve due RESPECT! (Steve Snark’s Own as seen in facebook)

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Do not tell me this Post is childish because it isn’t… wonderful Fortification or Castle (what you prefer), nice Toy Soldiers… and a PURPOSE!

Yes, the British are attacking the Russians!… it smacks of the Crimean war (War was War back then.. you know!)

How can you play (unashamedly) with Toy Sodiers…

Enjoy!

A russian castle… Sebastopol?
Fearsome guns!
The attack begins!
A lateral view…
Final rush!

Sudanese Colonial Troops. British Bulldog Series by Roberto Lodoli 54mm

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I have a passion for colonial affairs in my fantasy world (because In the real world I think Imperialism was wrong… mind probably inevitable in context and I mean historically… but definitely wrong on the whole approach of white man supremacy… LOL… I do not know why I have to include my private opinions in this Blog at all!)… pros and cons aside… there was colourful troops and little actions who deserve attention if you are a wargamer in 54MM or whatever scale.

Find this setting and troops delightful even if some need a bit of repair (that prone figure with broken rifle hurts my eyes).

Enjoy!

Nice setting
Some are battered
Need to repair that rifle
Good Warriors
Final view,

Dave Mitchel’s Diorama (ISANDLWANA)

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It has been a while since I first saw this pics from an awesome diorama.

I have been delaying getting into it and making a Post because in a way it is so much Military Modeling and sculpting that the term Toy Soldier did not seem to apply to it.

After much reflection I decided to make a Post… it deserves it in spades.

There are no comments on the five pics… they are self explanatory I guess.

Enjoy!

DISPLAY of ALAN HARRISON’S Toy Soldiers

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Alan Harrison’s beautiful (and magnificent) Collection!

Those cabinets are very similar to mine but they include vintage Toy Soldiers by Lucotte and other niceties I can not afford… also is much more bigger a collection than mine… Congratulations!

Enjoy!

NICE!
More exotic!
Quite mixed subjects
Lots of Cavalry
And more…
Say WOW! if you please…