Collecting Toy Soldiers – Page 16

Collecting

I found this pic on Facebook some weeks ago… even if you think this is not here not there… well… I love it!… it is minimalist but to the point somehow… Enjoy.

As an addendum the eagle-eyed among you would have noticed the lack of head on the figure of the Bass Drummer Guardsman… I know, you know and he (or she) probably knows that a simple order to (for example) DORSET SOLDIERS (by now IMPERIAL MINIATURES I guess) will supply the missing head (You can even buy painted and plug in with a bit of glue…)… BUT… it would not be VINTAGE then… LOL… really… in this hobby you need all sorts and ALL approaches are CORRECT! Just to clarify the point.

Ditto also arms missing… ditto… ditto.

Little Wars…

As seen in Facebook (A Gentleman’s War)… where can you see an Army composed by Brits, Argentinian, Egyptians, and Americans?… only on those tabletops…

Military Band

A particular subject painting tartan (in a class of their own)

Military Modelers seem to enjoy the challenge of painting tartan… see here a quite fine example.

Old timers

Old Britain’s Japanese Infantry. Adam Falkoff’s Own.

A bit of back to Basics today… how those old minis managed to survive some generations of children is always amazing. Enjoy.

Perfection

Several dys ago I posted (a share) this awesome piece in Facebbok, I must find the author and pay due respect… found the water splashes fascinating… an unusual approach to say the least!

Indian tribes did make war to one another before the “manifest destiny” pressure (to be euphemistic)… I am not a good Military Modeler myself (say average-low) but I am duly impressed with works of art like that. I think the author is a Spaniard… Asociacion de Modelismo Alabarda is all I know…Congratulations!

Not what you will call a group of Toy Soldiers… but I do… I do… I do…

Prussians get a flag…

It is not the same unit of course!… but I thought it would be nice to compare…

Definitely a Toy Soldiers Post today… harmless and beautiful…

Napoleonic Wargame

Prussian gunners stick to their guns… no matter what… Mark Freeth pic…

Sometimes it is imposible to avoid posting a Napoleonic pic… people go for it with gusto. Ligny scenario.

Do not blame them… I was a Napoleonic 25mm wargamer for thirty years!…

High Water Mark?

Toy soldiers in fact represent those brave men that payed the ultimate price in so many wars… Lee’s?. Longstreet’s? Pickett’s? who really cares?… I do not believe in such things as THE HIGH WATER MARK or else… PBI YES!… Anecdotally Custer made his name today… Ride on you wolverines! etc.

By July 1863 the Union Army matched the Confederates in every aspect… and had more numbers, better Artillery, Navy, Supplies and whatever… it was only a matter of time (heroic if you please)… but there was nothing the South could do til the bitter end…

So for once Troiani is a better option than any toy Soldier pic.

17th Lancers

As seen in facebook… quite a painting job!

Nothing like ceremonial uniforms of the late XIXth Century I guess…

BTW I forgot to mention it is the second day of Gettysburg… and Chamberlain was a great Regimental commander… but I do not think you could have outflanked the boys in blue… (my opinion).

6 mm

Now, I have one too… but the honour is for Sigi who put The Ringo Kid on top of it!… passengers to Lordsburg last call!

So, YES yo can make conversions AND Military Modeling in 6mm too!… It is my current passion… and you find always better examples than yours truly… LOL

Incidentally I forgot to mention today is the 1st of July… so Gettysburg begins… with Buford’s decision to deny the heights to the Confederate Army…