Recent content by theBaron

Like MLB. That's the trend-chasing overseas revenue. Though baseball and football will never be as popular as soccer, there's more money to be made than loss, so this is what we have to put up with. George, do what I did the last time there was a baseball strike-seek out Legion games...

I don't have access to my casting rig right now; everything is at my old house, 25 miles away. But this is a photo of a Schneider mold, to cast a Prussian officer and infantryman, so you can see what we're talking about: That's from a post in the Facebook group "Verkauf/Tausch Zinnfiguren"...

Sorry, but these are not Britains. They were cast from molds made by the German firm Gebrüder Schneider (Schneider Brothers), in Leipzig, from around 1890 up till the end of WWII. Some mold makers made replicas of the molds from after the end of the war up to the 2000s (notably Höhmann in...

Are you sure those are Britains? They look more like half-round toy soldiers cast from Schneider molds. WWI French infantry, looking at the headgear. Homecasters also used those molds to make US Civil War figures. Prost! Brad

Every time I see the title of this thread, I think of Tom T. Hall's song... Prost! Brad This is what I get for growing up as a kid in the Seventies, with just AM radio to listen to.

How do you participate in the hobby, John? That is, are you strictly a collector, buying finished figures, or do you also paint your own? I ask because I don't know of any clubs today that are just people who collect toy soldiers. As George mentioned, there is the Long Island Miniature...

Probably not. I think the show is defunct at this point.

I think the leftmost figure is supposed to be Rudyard Kipling, and I think I have seen him and these others posted elsewhere in the Internet, recently. I thought it might have been in the Facebook group "mytoysoldiersandme". But I went back through the images posted there, going back to the...

I think because the other thread was 86'd.

I like the Prussian SYW cuirassier figure. It's a true 54mm, and it's crisply sculpted and cast. But Del Prado mislabeled it. It's an officer, not a trooper. I wish they had produced a trooper, too. But I acquired a mold to cast some, so I can make a set. Prost! Brad

Rumor is that Dave Dombrowski will hire Cora to replace Rob Thompson in Philadelphia. He hired Cora for Boston. But apparently Dombrowski offered him the Phillies manager role and Cora turned it down. Don Mattingly is filling in as interim manager, in the meantime. No surprise that Thompson...

It's not Trophy or K&C, but I can't remember the mark. The "M" is "Miniatures", if I remember correctly. I think it's a Mexican infantryman from the War for Texan Independence. Prost! Brad

You know what annoys me? That the character of Maggie in "Caddyshack", played by Sarah Holcombe, is played as an Irish girl. It makes no sense. There's no explanation of how an Irish girl shows up at a country club in Indiana. And Holcombe's accent is poor, It just seems unnecessary. Prost...

It's not about deterrence. It's about justice.

I think it's funny that someone thought the WNBA is such a money-maker that he ran right out and started a second women's professional basketball league, "Unrivalled". Well, to be more precise, it's a couple of women basketball players behind it. But it's really just the WNBA with less whorish...