Collecting Toy Soldiers

I spotted this rather nice collection of German Colonials at the London Toy Soldier Show in March but somehow the pics slipped below my rad...

There seems to be a thing in Russia for making toy soldiers out of modelling clay I don't know if they are soft like Plasticine or they...

We have an old saying in London, "you wait ages for a bus then three come along together" and this used to be the case until the ...

Back in March I posted an entry about a couple of 40mm semi flat sets made by Authenticast and questioned whether they were sculpted by Hol...

Hidden in the bottom of the junk box I bought at the London Show last weekend were more of the 40mm semi-flat Authenticast figures that I re...

An assortment of 56mm Prussian infantry castings Various old homecasting moulds This two part mould for a Prussian Hussar on prancing hors...

This is the second set of Authenticast semi-flats that I've unearthed, the standard bearer looks like an Eriksson design to me but I...

Back in about 1966, so when I was 10, my dad decided to build a new wall for the front garden of our house in Chiswick, West London.  In dig...

Making your own toys soldiers at home has long been a popular pastime, perhaps not so much in recent decades with the universal shift towar...