My Toy Soldiers & Me

Cavalry

Cavalry was redundant at the end of the XIXth but no one had the courage to tell them… Magnificent example of a good conversion and painting job.

Swedes Cavalry

Swedish Cavalry for a change… as seen in Facebook

Fascination with Toy Soldiers is a mild disease I guess…

Toy Soldiers Transport

A much neglected piece in many collections of Toy Soldiers… this is a lovely example.

My armies have no casualties, sorry about that… for me Toy Soldiers never die… and of course I found annoying the idea of wounded and streach-bearers… I am particular about that. So there you have it… I bought the nurses… the doctors… an on purpose incomplete set (NO wounded etc.).

Russian Playmobils (1812)

The Line Units (Clicks Napoleonicos España)… great conversions!

Most of you would not be interested at all but Playmobils are FUN to customize… 75mm means your fingers are able to do it without much trouble or craftsmanship… the results are great but a bit on the expensive side… those who do enjoy making very big DIORAMAS… you need all sorts as you already know.

Paul Watson’s completed Observation Balloon

The complete works… with bits and pieces from here and there… the truly Frankenstein approach!

A picture is worth a thousand words… so be happy you’ll be spared my prose today! 54mm!

TOY SOLDIERS: quite delightful 54mm figures of a not much collected period

USA/Mexican war I guess… wonderful painting

Probably Howard Whitehouse but not sure… took it from Facebook!… those are painted “old Britain’s style” and are “my piece of cake”. Enjoy

A GENTLEMAN’S WAR: An Army!

An Army of Toy Soldiers… French in this case (as seen in Facebook)

For a lot of us collectors this is one of the goals or objectives… to be able to field an Army of Toy Soldiers… everything is there: Artillery, Infantry and Cavalry… and even some “civilians”. You need all sorts as I usually say. Enjoy.

TOY SOLDIERS: 30 years collecting a French Army in 54mm. Classic&Class

Courage!… excellent obsession! As seen in Facebook. Timothy Hyndman’s Own.

My Collection: Last Touchs II

Finally the Wagon is on its place… Steadfast Wagon and Ducal and Tradition mounted Officers.

Finished Collection on this Cabinet. A lifelong achievement…

I could still squeeze a couple more of Gordon Highlanders but all depends on REPLICA (read Andrew Stevens). I am quite satisfied as it is. And YES it took me years… 11 shelves: top 3 French Foreign Legion (in the 1st Cavalry and Mules Mounted Infantry); 4-6 REPLICA Second Anglo-Afghan second war; 7 Artillery; 8 Tel el Kebir; 9-10 Royal West Kent; 11 Colonial Cavalry. Nothing post 1900 interests me as a collector.