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Playing with Toy Soldiers (Gavin Holliday’s Own) I

In a way, a suite of pics that shows that it is easy to roleplay (in fact it was not even called roleplaying at all back then) with 54mm vintage Toy Soldiers… and “damn the torpedoes”…

Eclectic? Yes

Old Fashioned? Yes

Childish? Yes

Fun? Yes

So…

Enjoy!

Timothy Hyndman’s Own

Rather extra good painting job (see the Regimental Colour and the Drum… and the careful grey hair on the mounted officer’s moustache… really a breat of fresh air for us in the hobby…), welcome to this webpage Timmothy!… hope we see soon enough more examples of his units. Enjoy

Massimo Vittucci’s Own

Found this pics as a colateral thing in Facebook… posted by another Italian collector (Stefano Allorini)… it took me pains to find again… so I quickly post them today!… because once I found them I could not wait to post them here!

A lifelong collection I guess, fantastic job.

Another one…by Stefano Allorini!

I forgot this pic on my “vault of pics” and it deserves to be published here… must find the author!… have already asked the question in facebook…

Stefano Allorini!… thanks to friend Mike Niederman in Facebook for the information!… and see more pics!

Michael Nash presents: Nate Fogt’s of Nate’s Garage

All items seen in facebook as reported in the Chicago Toy Soldier Show… items exposed and sold in less than an hour… and no wonder!… Enjoy!

Alan Green’s Own

This is a magnificent example of what a collection of Toy Soldiers is, pics by the owner on Facebook (look for the group mytoysoldiersandme). A clarification is needed, when I titled this web page MY TOY SOLDIERS AND ME the idea was to include under this umbrella all fans of collecting toy soldiers whatever the size, style or purpose, so the “MY” refers to “YOUR” figures not at all exclusively mine at all if you follow me. What is more, I usually abstain of repeating myself ad nauseam posting well known pics of my toy soldiers (even if I do from time to time to illustrate a point). So this is why you see wargaming minis in all scales, pure toy soldiers (vintage and “new”) and military modeling figures in many scales. Hope that makes it clear! Enjoy

By The Way… I am more of the school of black dot effect for the eyes of mine!… but the work in the eyes of the figures by Mr. Green is superbly detailed (a steady hand you need for that)

I love more this kind of painting “eyes”.

Also that one! but it is quite difficult!

And last but not least… more “exotic” units… excellent!

Daniel Borris Military Band

Military Bands have always been a very collectable category as far as I know… Toy Soldiers need music to march on!

Bands standing instead of marching, or even seated are a special variant of the subject. See three examples of a serious collector.

Enjoy!

Daniel Borris Own 54mm Toy Soldiers

He posts frequently in Facebook… and his collection is really impressive!… he even got in it the late Featherstone’s Armies… Those Highlanders are Britain’s of course… but he is an eclectic collector and has items from a variety of makers. Enjoy!