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...

 This past year I embarked upon a review of how I store and display the unruly mass of toy soldiers accumulated in a largely haphazard way o...

 Among the finds at the car boot sale last weekend were these post war composition figures of the German Bundeswehr made by Elastolin, which...

 After the success I had on facebook with the identification of the Galloglass made by Oojah-Cum-Pivvy I thought I'd try the same approa...

 Volume 14 of Die Zinnlaube arrived recently, now only published once a year, this is the 2024/25 issue, 112 pages (including the cover) pri...

I went along to the London Toy Soldier Show back in March, but I'm only getting around to putting up the pictures now, It's been tha...

This rather nice pair of Hussars were made in Germany circa 1910/20 by Manzsoldaten, one of the minor makers of composition toy soldiers, an...

 I've always liked figures of Hussars and Lancers, light cavalry in general I suppose, and here are three examples of composition person...

This mounted knight stands 140mm from base to top of plume and was part of an early set of medieval figures produced in the 1920's by L...

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

I'm about to embark on a new project which involves painting up a load of Cossacks, happily there are lots of figures available thanks ...

Yesterday was the thirtysomethingth Plastic Warrior Show in London, I forget which number we're up to, a sure sign of ageing), here are...

The show in London last weekend seemed a little flat to me, but it was nice to meet old friends and I spent most of my money so that's ...