54MM Toy Soldiers – Page 14 – My Toy Soldiers & Me

54MM Old Britains restored… Pics Before/After (edited 2025)

So, the old question arise… what would you do?… keep them as Historical Vintage Items?… or… Repaint and Restore?…

I must admit that when confronted with it in the past I opted, after thinking about it, for the second option. Even more I sold them once restored because problems of mixing up sizes and scales in 54mm with others manufacturers…

Was I right?… I do not really know… Those below are not mine… as seen in Facebook by Arno Durieux..

Finished!

That glorious moment when the job is done!… a close look at the matt will show you the hard work and love put into those Toy Soldiers… Ready to March and Fight on the Tabletop!… and remember the main thing TOY SOLDIERS never die…

Those are not mine at all but I can understand the pride of the painter!

Lancers for traditional AGW wargaming

First two pics by John Firth and the last by John Clarke. All easy to see in Facebook if you go to A GENTLEMAN’S WAR group… I dutifully bought the rules by Howard Whitehouse… they are fun to read… but not what I do with 54mm Toy Soldiers… You need all sorts you know…

Those are very fine Toy Soldiers and excellently painted, I do not use mine with those rules, and I have to say they are more “historically collected” and only for display because I have them in 6mm too… and there is where I wargame…

The officer is out of THE PRISONER OF ZENDA… aka Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Military Bands. I am going to put here pics of Military Bands from a Facebook group. (Edited 2025)

Military Bands have always been there as a theme for collecting Toy Soldiers, probably the charm is the variations of instruments and the very colorfful uniforms.

In fact some collectors specialize in them.

Part of my collection includes them.

BUT in my time I had to sold some “to make room”… a decision that I regreted later (at least for some items). But one do really make mistakes sometimes.

Enjoy!