Collecting Toy Soldiers – Page 20

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.

Britain’s smaller scale

I have always collected 54mm traditional Toy Soldiers… but you can not denie those smaller figures are charming too!

Those are from Graham Hilditch.

Some sailors marching. (Pic seen in Facebook)

Toy Soldiers: Vignettes to end a collection

You must be tired of my wanderings, but that surely completes the big cabinet.

Now, if only Andrew Stevens admits orders in September I would be sorely tempted in adding three or four figures to the other cabinet…

Nurses and a Medical Officer (STEADFAST)

And the Military Policemen set by STEADFAST

Could not resist adding Lestrade (Plian Clothes Detective STEADFAST)

Back to Barracks

Hilditch’s own (42mm Series B Britains painted to a high standard a la Dilley!)

Got other pics to post but this one appeared today in Facebook and got my eye… you can do much worse and not much better. Enjoy.

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.

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…

“Sixties” BRITAINS: That box started it all

Britain’s extra large set (two trays) Coldstream Guards… fantastic gift from my parents!

On a trip to London (UK) my parents had the great idea of bringing to me this awesome set of BRITAINS… one of the last produced before going “plastic”!

I was really pampered because I had been sick for quite a time.

Now, that brought along a lot of reminiscences… just seen in an Auction in the USA… not that I am going to bid at all… I had the real thing at the time it was needed…

I already had a lot of plastic, rubber and aluminium toy soldiers… but that box suddenly become the apex of my loot!

Sorry for the poor quality of the pics but they were really small.

As a result you all know I was hooked on Toy Soldiers for life…