Collecting Toy Soldiers

 Back in December I went along to the London Toy Soldier Show, I have to admit I was checking each day that it wouldn't be cancelled at ...

 I recently unearthed these photos I took a few years back of a rather fine model battleship, it was in the window of a high end antiques ga...

Another model ship, another cutting, this one has almost faded and sunk into to mists of time, but has been salvaged by the heroic efforts ...

The Royal Navy can float a Battleship anywhere...….and they have some very nice toys! I really want one of these! Here the Royal ...

My second and final report from the March 2013 London Toy Soldier Show are a couple of items built and being sold by an enthusiast for play...

This rather nice little set of Battleships has left me with something of a quandary.  I think they are meant to be Pre-dreadnoughts (though...

Yesterday I went to the London Toy Soldier Show, it didn't seem as busy as in previous years but then the first show of the year is oft...

My final posting from the London Toy Soldier Show last weekend is this rather fine battleship from Dorset Toy Soldiers just what yo...

At top a pair of matelots scrub the decks in time honoured fashion, the one with bucket is a later soft plastic copy of a hollowcast fig...

Over on the  Army Red/White and Others  blog our friend AG has asked for ideas on building ships and crewing them for 54mm wargames. Many y...

This arab dhow was on the stand of Dorset Toy Soldiers.

A couple of weeks back I went to the London Toy Soldier show run by King and Country, I didn't pick up much for myself this time...