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  • Our Range of White Lead Free Metal Toy Soldier Figures is pre dominantly produced in Collectors 54MM (1/32) Scale. Many are offerred as "Kits" to assemble and paint to client choice. We offer unpainted kits figures and castings at this time.
    our working Ethos is to offer to the New as wel as the accomplished Toy Figure Collector something of collectable interest and Model or "Toy" Soldier figure building experience.IMG_2024-04-22-12-45-43-772 (1).jpg
    Quality castings are found in our extensive "MUSIC IN MINIATURE" range, in collectors 54MM Scale. This range is large and offers a good choice.IMG_2024-04-22-09-43-27-124 (1) - Copie.jpgIMG_2024-04-22-15-12-34-745 (1).jpgIMG_2024-04-22-09-52-54-059~2.jpgIMG_2024-04-22-10-16-37-825.jpgIMG_2024-04-22-15-15-26-940.jpg
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    New Collectors and clients are the future of our Trade. We seek to encourage a new school of Toy Soldier Figure collectors, by offering a "budget" range of earlier figures to begin.
    Below Castiings Photos. We offer a Beginners Collection figure series. For those totaly "new" to the Hobby, to practice their skills on before buying a more refined and complicated detailed figure or kit.
    Under existing older License, we shall be bringing a Limited Number of "Traditional" style earlier toy soldier figures. Below French napoleonic Foot Guard. 1/32 (54MM) Scale.



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    "Young Harry" The town Chimney Sweep. Part of our Re Issue "VICTORIAN" 1/32 Figure series.

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    NEW Release available late Autumn 2024.

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    H.A.C Crew (goes with our British 25 pounder Gun) primed metal casting parts ready to assemble now into our own painted Display Models. 1:32 scale "Mountford".


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    Alain Caton and other Sub Contractors are known to have supplied some "Mountford" parts....Seems Dave didnt actually make much by his own hand....on the Artillery range.
    Looks like I might need to re make the Germans too.....sniff
    The "Mountford" German Riders bear a worrying resembelance to the rather "Bland" figures produced by ESCI and some early 1970's Tamiya plastic figures, until 1984. They look like scaled up versions to me. Did Dave love sub contract EVERYTHING then?

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    This is one of the examples of the VERY "Poor" Quality treatment by the defunct Kaputnik N Z owners. Moulds RUINED and USELESS because they tried pouring Resinous Plastic into them..... IMG_2024-10-19-08-22-42-477.jpgIMG_2024-09-29-11-29-37-483.jpg
    Did any of them know anything about making Toy Soldiers at all?????

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    There are a number of bad useless or even "rusty" (!!) Moulds such as this we found when we opened the crates from N Z last year. Everything "else" (yes EVERYTHING !) was stuffed into plastic food freezer bags inside broken plastic boxes. Max is "not amused" and a lettter winged its way to N Z, no reply (of course!)....Sniff Sniff Unhappy
    Spray painted in undercoat. First Parts for the Mountford WW1 WW2 German Army Light Field Wagon and Horse Outriders in 1/32 Scale.IMG_2024-10-18-08-34-02-252.jpg

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    I will on suffrance have to continue selling the "old stock" Metal crew figures at ths time, , but meanwhile create NEW Crew figures for the Mountford items. Once old N Z stocks are exhausted, I am going to withdraw the old figure castings and furnish the kits with NEW ones.
    It seems a "lot" of the surviving Crew figures for "Mountford" are NOT the quality work from Alain Caton, rather the poor quality items made by the kaput guys. Some clearly come from the old Airfix Polythene Eight Army Set with modified Arms etc. Seen "worse" but these simply are not good enough and should be far better quality.
    We wish to jettisson all former Fleurbaix scanned (very old!!!) Photos and replace with ones of what Maryse and I are offerring to sell to collectors in Toy Soldier Hobby world.View attachment 342884


    Below. Bottom, original Eight Army Six Pounder Gun Crew figures/Castings.


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