Collecting Toy Soldiers

 I've been going a bit overboard with the medievals this past year or so, to the detriment of collecting other historical periods, but I...

 The French take their coffee and their art very seriously, if you have ever doubted this just take a look at the handbills below.  In the 1...

I have always had a particular fondness for toy soldiers made in France, they produce them in every conceivable material, and while the scu...

Plans are afoot for a wargame set in the Crimea during WW2 using 54mm plastic toy soldiers, it's a way off yet but it will still need a...

The recent mild weather in the South East (UK)  has ushered in the start of the Car Boot Sale season a little earlier than usual.  Our loca...

Rather late in the day but I just came across more pics of some figures I got at last year's Plastic Warrior Show.  I didn't take a...

Well, as I said in an earlier post, the Plastic Warrior Show is over for another year and I am late in getting around to commenting on it s...

Available at the Plastic Warrior Show a couple of weeks ago was this new book on two major French manufacturers: Cyrnos and JIM (Jouets Inc...

I'm always on the lookout for something unusual when I go to the shows and here is something I was really pleased to find, it's the ...

My final post from the London Show, three French plastic musketeers, the first made by JIM (Jouets Incassables en Matiere Plastique) the sec...

Guilbert didn't make a lot of stuff but what they did was very good, these were some of their early production in an acetate material ...

A Highland piper in glengarry and a standard bearer, an unusual pose for for the Scots, French made plastics of unknown manufacturer, probab...

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

Another find at last weekend's PW show was this 16th century? drummer, made in France but I'm not sure who the manufacturer was. He...

For a prone laying pose this figure is nicely animated, it's 54mm scale in plastic, I don't know who made it but it was sold by a...