The Major

Artists, keen photographers, and model soldier collectors since seven years old. I have collected nearly every item produced by the Italian maker "ATLANTIC, a large amount of Del Prado figures, some Rose figures, Stadden series figures, as well as Airfix and Britains figures, and played Wargames at the now sadly closed "Games Workshop," featuring characters from a High Elf or Elvish Army and also Lord of the Rings, and "has a large collection of rare out-of-print uniforms, history, and European books. Social media writer of Military Matters and History and Current Affairs, with over 78 million readers at the last count. I am an artist and sculptor mold maker.

Initially I collected plastics, then "Rose" miniatures figures (Russell Gammage era). My former school headmaster, Peter Abbot, gifted me four of his beautifully painted "ROSE" figures and got me interested in collecting metal figures.

I have been involved in the toy soldier "industry" as a seller of secondhand collectible figures and then a small-scale figure producer since 1995, beginning originally from my home using a mail order sales list.

We now have our own private studio and workshops in Europe.

We have now entered the world of 3D printing and begun forming new production from the new technology.

I trained in sculpting, lost wax casting, and plaster mold making under "Mike" and then Ron Spriggs at Wensum Lodge in Norwich during the 1990s. I prefer working using time-honored traditional methods of figure and mold making.

We use centrifugal "spun" toy soldier molds.

I was gifted an Alec Tiranti (Potery Crafts) Centricast Machine and Metal melting Furnace and began my earlier homemade small-scale figure production in 1998.

I am also a professionally trained photographer. I used to frequently visit air shows and history reenactments and have got around seven thousand photographs of AFVs and aircraft to my credit.

My mother produced sculptures and was also an accomplished oil painter. I became interested in pottery and then sculpture at age eleven.

I sold my very first sculpture, "Bust" of a Philistine Warrior, to an American lady, Rose Richardson, originally from Denver, who became a long-time personal family friend. My first professional sculpture was a sixth-century Egyptian warrior, which was a gift for my late mother.

My late mother was a Paris-trained artist herself, training at what has now become the site for the current Studio of Claudine Ricart at the Montmartre in Paris. It is from Jean that I inherited my artistic skills and interests. A keen ballroom dancer, she was a close friend of the famous French television actor and theater actor Claude Brossett, who is understood in fact to be my real father.

I named the new family business "Studio Paris Art" in memory of this liaison. I have fond memories of an early childhood in Paris. Unfortunately, due to the criminal actions of our former UK retailer, my wife decided to sell our Paris apartment after I was violently assaulted nearby by persons hired by UK foreign criminals.

It is our firm resolve and ambition to once again have and own a Paris apartment similar to our previous one which was in the 18th Arrondissement. .

I bought the entire former Chota Sahib and Studio (Ex Sarum) figurine range from Patrick J. D. Willis in 2009 and retired in France. Only to then suddenly find myself robbed by my own retailer, who stole figures and smuggled them illegally out of France. !!!

However, we have a complete series of the Moulds and 98 percent of the Masters from our own copies of the ex-Patrick Willis Mould toolings.

Recently we purchased a large number of the surviving product ranges from the now-closed New Zealand Toy Soldier maker "Fleur Baix.".

We do NOT sell our products through any other outlet, since a nasty and violent incident involving our former UK retailer, who stole figures and then copied them as illegal piracy products (FROME Model Centre). This was reported to the police and to the UK BMSS in Bristol at the time, and a dossier is held with our attorney in Strasbourg. ALL Frome Model Centre "Chota Sahib" (ex-Sarum soldiers and/or Studio Figurines) are fraudulently, illegally copied, and produced and are a flagrant criminal offense and theft of bona fide copyright product legally paid for duly witnessed by solicitors as sold to us in 2009.

For the avoidance of doubt, I am Max Chevallier, the legal owner and copyright holder of the complete Chota Sahib and Studio Figurine ranges (ex sarum soldiers), along with Mountford, Under Two Flags, Rosedale, and Rose (Ancients). JG Miniatures (Zulus and Rome), Music In Miniature (Brien Walalce series), and others.

We are now steadily reissuing our toy soldiers and kits, trading under the name "Studio Paris Art." Production will continue and we claim full redress and compensation against Frome Model Centre and its criminal associates. A violent attack was made on my physical person, an assault, and all goods they "claim" to sell from that product series are in breach of tax, excise, and royalty law.

The criminal penalty for this is a very large fine of around 300,000 Euros and/or up to thirty years in a French prison. I strongly advise Frome Model Centre to return all stolen goods, repay the FULL PRICE for them, which Patrick Willis stated was a value of 118,000 pounds UK sterling (plus compensation for damages and assault), and cease and desist from this illegal abusive practice immediately.

We therefore EMBARGO sales to the UK (retailers) unless and UNTIL this nasty situation is resolved to our full and complete satisfaction.