Category: Military Modeling

Playmobil 75mm Danish Guards (very light -easy to do- customs)

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Perusing ebay (yes I also do that!) one day I found a Danish Guard (summer gala “red” dress)… I asked about the possibility of having a 10 figures unit but to no avail, good comms by ronald-toys but no deal.

You see… I had them in 54mm traditional toy soldiers gloss finish by Tradition of London… I even asked Giles Brown from Dorset Soldiers (another brand) to make some customs so to have the Band (the music)… sadly I sold my set some years later “to make place”… a collector’s silly mistake! (we all do that I guess… mistakes).

I was never a fan of those sky blue trousers. BUT I liked the normal (undress or no gala) uniform! with dark blue coat… red & sky blue was not a personal choice at all you see?

But… once you get to permutate parts with Playmobils the challenge was there… so… this last summer I started to work on the possibilities…

As usual I bought the basic parts from my main suppliers: Playmoingstore (Carmen&Oscar) and Markus (hannibal-lektor) ebay or on-line shops. But also bought stickers from Playmobil Custom Factory (see on FaceBook)… in fact I used Prussian stickers torsos! (stickers are used sometimes for different “things” that those intended originally)… also some parts from PlaymoBox (sky blue cuffs and closed collar). So the spares box is absolutely magnificent for new projects!… the white strips were there for years and are from BENDALA (bendalator in ebay)… BUT I ordered the “blue service clad guards” from Felipe Barroso (playmofelipe) because I did not know how to get at first instance those trousers with white strip!… So I got the pertinent parcel from him… with them “blue guards in it” and finally I built myself the gala chaps using ACW sky blue legs whith white stickers stripes (bendalator on the spares box for years!) so to have the two versions!

For my ever lasting satisfaction a member of FaceBook put a single word Post tonight: “Price?”… Not selling them… No commercial items… just my hobby for pleasure… I redirect her/him to ronald-toys and will add Felipe Barroso (they do sell them!) … but was gratified by that single word nevertheless… LOL (Her/His Profile is very suspicious! too recent… no activity… but it make my day… LOL)

Royal Danish Guard by ronald-toy (see modern rifle)
My versions with parts build by Felipe Barroso (playmofelipe) Curiously the blue chap has finally my legs and the red chap the Barroso legs for a “better contrast”. It was real fun!
A nearly completed unit. Still thinking about the drummer…
there he is…
The gala uniform.
Close up
Both Units

PLAYMOBIL REAL CUSTOMIZED FIGURES. Edited October 2026

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I do not have a lot of them, actually they are collection pieces done by true “artists” (IMHO) that go directly to the Cabinet… not to be played with… and even matt finish!

The pics are from Spanish artist PLAYMOFELIPE… and on the pipeline (read September) probably Dominique Junca will deliver D’Hubert & Feraud (The Duellists)… fingers crossed!… and of course MAZAS CATAPULTAS will also deliver a pair of medievals…

Enjoy!

After more than 50 years of marriage here we are together in the cabinet… actually all those cars we did have in our time… but not at the same time!… one after the other! LOL (The Rolls Royce was my wife father pet… the Triumph Spitfire my wife… the Morgan Plus 4 and the Lotus Elise were mine…
Some of mine in the cabinet…
It lacks only 4 more figures, two are The Duellists by Dominique Junca -see below- and two from Mazas Catapultas a real specialist in medieval times… one would be Prince Valiant the other one an ancestor. If you look closer you will see the buttons on the Swiss Guard coat have been redone by me.
My last addition to the Cabinet… a Vatican Papal Swiss Guard… the best of mercenaries (loyal, sober and true… the perfect soldier… as long as you pay them… a contract is a contract!)… finally did “touch” the buttons see above!
Tintin, Captain Haddock and Milú (CUSTOMS PLAYMOFELIPE)

Spanish Tercio Arquebusier/Musketeer… my own “Captain” Alatriste -young- (before growing a moustache)… 75mm PLAYMOFELIPE
Another view to show the sword.
Comandante Franco Primera Bandera de la Legión (El Tercio) años 20 del XX. Custom de Felipe Barroso. Actualmente en el Correo (en tránsito).
Working on them myself (light customs)
Armand d’Hubert (Creation Dominique Junca)
Gabriel Féraud (Dominique Junca)
A X’mas truce? (Dominique Junca creations)
One of my ancestors… IX Century or so.
This is mine… the mounted one is a gift for my brother! (Mazas Catapultas)
Prince Valiant! (Mazas Catapultas)

The Second US Cavalry as portrayed in SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (VIII)

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Quite effective (and boring) session today… doing dark blue saddle accoutrements on the horses… tedious yes… but nearly there… LOL

Seriously what I can not stand is SUPERGLUE in my fingers… now I use the same gloves as in pandemic times.

Enjoy!

PS: Keeping yellow colour for the last touchs!

Lateral view of the lot!
The other side…

The Second US Cavalry as portrayed in SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (VII)

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Well, yes I could do the faces (not yet finished of course… it lacks eyebrows, eyes and mouth + sole moustaches and full beards…). So for those who expected Buffalo Soldiers it is not the case that was the primer colour all over.

Coming up slow but sure.

Would be fun to paint the non regulation scarves in differet colours.

And yellow stripes on breeches blue only for NCO’s and Officers.

As I have said horses would be the last.

Enjoy!

Lateral view
Another perspective

The Second US Cavalry as portrayed in SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON. (II) and some distractions on the side

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I had a set of Guardsmen from REPLICA and decided to assemble them after a crisis (I nearly sent them away to be painted!)… then on reflection I thought better paint myself… long winter months ahead (if there is a winter).

Enjoy!

Nearly finished priming…
While the US Cavalry is drying… assembling some figures!
That figure would become King Charles III (quite probably!)
A Guards Commander with Binoculars (mounted) and an ADC (4th Hussars aka very young Winston Churchill!)

The Second US Cavalry as portrayed in SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (I)

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Finally I am doing them, it has been a busy task to drill the holes to fit the heads, and also put the arms in place. A normal procedure when buying casts and a bit of DIY. Of course that is after gluing together the two parts of the horse (YES the casts come in two parts and you have to glue them). Had to add pistol holster (from DORSET SOLDIERS) and add the guidon from my spares box (Old DUCAL lance). Not complaining at all but it is not my favourite time with them… I enjoy painting but the assembly part is like work in a way…

Now, the pots of Vallejo painting have been buyed long ago… I will prim the figures and let them dry. And then it would be the usual Henry Ford approach of painting in a “line of production”. That way when you have finished the last figure (54mm REPLICA) the first is already dry and so on.

Really it is more fun to show what I am doing instead of simply posting what others have done (syndrome of “look Ma what I have done!”).

You can simply skip those Posts if not interested.

2023 was a very chaotic tasks jumble with the production of the Baccus proxies for the Brigade of British Guards in the Crimean War interrupting all the time work in other scales. With them finished and out of the way finally able to do Nathan Brittles Second US Cavalry patrol.

The need to add them to my collection has always been there… but until Andrew Stevenson produced the sample (see bottom) I was not able to locate the casts at all (with my own specifications and variations).

Hope you enjoy.

General view
Priming up
On the waiting line.
Just finished assembling.
Original sample provided by REPLICA!