Collecting Toy Soldiers

 Following on from the previous post, here is a command post I made many years back in the style of the old Elastolin modular trench section...

 Feeling the need for some crafting therapy I cast around the projects I've started over the years but left unfinished, there were plent...

 Apart from collecting old toy soldiers and gaming I also like to convert and paint figures, sadly I don't get enough time for this part...

 Austin-Putilov armoured car made by MKI the Moscow Toy Plant, it's plastic and looks like the chassis and turrets have been produced in...

An early birthday present to myself (because I'm worth it), "Les Petits Soldats de la Grande Guerre" has been out for while b...

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 ...

Across the blogosphere collectors and wargamers are running games in memoriam to Stuart Asquith who sadly passed away recently, I hadn'...

I have always been drawn to car boot sales, charity, junk and aquarium shops, in fact anywhere that might offer something which can be used...

I've had these three little chaps tucked away for a very long time, they came to me as "extras" in a collection of early comp...

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...

King & Country are a current manufacturer of white metal model soldiers, I'm not sure if they would prefer me to describe them as t...

The London show organised by King & Country is being held at the Royal National Hotel this weekend but sadly I will not be there.  The D...

The King & Country Toy Soldier Company who sponsor the London Toy Soldier Show display their wares in a series of stunning doramas, ...

This semi flat composition machinge gun team were made in Germany around 1910 by Mars Hindenburg. They are depicted from the waist up as th...

These stretcher bearers and nurse are solid lead (and very heavy!), they stand about 50mm high and the scuplting is very crude to put it mi...

This horse drawn machine gun cart is part of an extensive set of semi flat plastic toy soldiers made in the old USSR to depict the Russia...