Alejo Dorca – Page 20 – My Toy Soldiers & Me

Friends and Collectors.

I decided to group in the year 2019 starting of course on January and so on, with the list of Posts I published about other Collectors Collections, not my Toy Soldiers at all (even if I have bought some for my collection inspired by them). I do not do that anymore, have long ago counseled to search on Facebook for them directly if you are interested.

But, I am not deleting those pics I “collected” during years about Toy Soldiers. Why at all?… maybe they will help other collectors.

Of course after so many years in the hobby some of them have become “long distance friends” because we share the same interest

Hope you like their outpout.

My French Foreign Legion Collection 99% Dorset Soldiers with a touch of REPLICA. Included in the pic are French Line Artillery (sometimes display is complicated)

The rest of my French Army post 1870. Again DORSET SOLDIERS (including the gift of a Cantiniere from Antony Spencer… thanks my friend I appreciated!). Of course it took me long years to achieve.

ACW in 54mm!

Lovely Toy Soldiers… very difficult to do the big battles with that scale… but as long as you are a collector anything is feasible… skirmishes, AGW, etc. (imagine the range of the Artillery piece… LOL)

Just love those figures.

Enjoy!

Francesco Thau’s Own 28mm

I am a huge fan of what Francesco does with 28mm Perry’s… unsurpassed IMHO… those mini dioramas are full of action and tasteful display (and some are standard figures or minis!)… mindblowing standard of painting if you ask me… not my favourite scale anymore… but dear me!… he tempts me everytime I see his works.

Enjoy!

X’mas Carols (By DORSET) and James Opie’s version

Whatever you celebrate this days have a good time with your beloved one’s, be kind, courteous, speak softly, hug everybody with grace and do not mention war or politics… there… a recipe for success…

James Opie version… must be Britain’s I guess…

And remember that not everyone has the same taste… so it is alright to love all music or just parts of it (genres), same with art and literature… to do not mention movies and actors/actresses… whatever you like can get on the nerves of others… so simply agree to disagree… and all of the best for everybody!

Enjoy!

Spencer Smith’s

I did never got into them in my wargaming period… and still I love them… so this is a kind of tribute to them and those who followed the path of wargaming a la Charles Grant (father and son… the grandson seems more WWII inclined)

Excellent pic. Enjoy

Have not a single one… but they really look great!

Military Modeling Quality

There is a line between the Toy Soldier and the Military Modeling Miniatures… it can be a thin line (if you pardon the pun) sometimes but surely not in this case… fans of John Ford’s Cavalry Trilogy will appreciate…

Fort Apache characters I think by ANDREA MINIATURES… but not sure (Facebook pic)

Miscellaneous 54MM

In another Post I showed “MY” Royal West Kent Regiment… in fact the Post was not complete because it did not showed the more “action” minis of the Regiment… so… here you have them (painted by me).

They are TRADITION OF LONDON Rifles painted as RWK, and some original to help the composition. The Wagon is from RPWORLD MODELS.

On the lower shelf some medical corps minis including nurses and police officers and “bobbies”… the only “civilians” in my collection… Holmes&Watson + Lestrade + Hansom cab (Some Tradition of London… some RPWORLD MODELS).

At the end of the Post see some minis and river boat pics I found on Facebook!… great pics of other collectors passions.

Enjoy!

Cavalry on the plains. (I)

U.S. Cavalry has always been a cherished subject since childhood… those John Ford movies did an everlasting work!

I saw this on Facebook (by Dave Mitchell) the other day and thought maybe change a little from Antietam in 6mm (You all must be tired of the subject by now!).

So…

Enjoy!

This is how all started… (pics excepting the first one… by Christopher Joseph) as seen in facebook!

Maybe for me (not a single pic is of my Toy Soldiers at all… not even the Castle… but close enough).

Wood building blocks… in my cas they were cork… Britain’s in red tunics!… there you got it! (BUT lots of other not so nice soldiers buuut… deligthful in their way too… they were not even lead).

To have Britain’s in the Nineteen Fifties in Barcelona (Spain) was a rare luxury… and I had them thanks to a trip to London of my Pa&Ma (How they translate THAT BIG BOX in THAT TIME eludes me… maybe a Hamley’s purchase?… on a plane (Do you remembre the commercial planes of the fifties?)…

Whatever… have not stopped collecting the stuff since then.

Enjoy!

BTW Nice framed posters on the walls…

No idea where I did find this pic SORRY!

Christopher Joseph Collection as the rest…

Franco Prussian War 54mm OLD SCHOOL WARGAMING!

Nothing is so spectacular as the Franco-Prussian War for wargaming the Old Style… still gaudy uniforms… you are in command (instead of those incompetent French Marshalls)… and not the gore of the XXth Century.

The other alternative is Dorking of course… but that was really improbable… BUT… fantastic alternative for gaudy redcoats!… the book is not really compulsory reading (I have it and did… but not indispensable to wargame the period… The Riddle of the Sands come true etc.)

Enjoy!