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He's in the Nostalgia pamphlet, as Fiji Armed Constabulary, 1900. It also shows the set's officer in a longer jacket, with sword carried upright in the right hand, and the scabbard in the left. The brochure is frustrating in that it has lots of pictures and no set numbers. Your casting looked...

Approximately 300,000 African Americans served in the Vietnam War. In 1965, African Americans filled 31% of the ground combat battalions in Vietnam, while the percentage of African Americans as a minority in the general population was 12%. In 1965, African Americans suffered 24% of the U.S...

Perry Miniatures also do a vignette based on the Joy painting, although I can't get past the dwarfish proportions that are the accepted 28mm figure standard. Also, any ideas on what Joy was intending with Gordon's left arm and hand gesture? Never understood it...

Duro, Kneadatite, and "greenstuff" are different names for the same product. I use Apoxie Sculpt, which is similar to another brand: Magic Sculpt. I prefer them to Milliput for ease of use. Buy the smallest quantity available, they seem to last forever. I see the online prices are frequently...

Trooper from set 2074 1st (King's) Dragoon Guards. Same figure is picture 1 on pg 40 of Rose's Collector's Guide. The Picture Pack only trooper is on a trotting horse (not cantering) and has a falling plume.

From Mirof's site: https://www.mirofsoft.com/toy-soldier/ Scroll down to Nostalgia. There's a PDF of one of the mid-1970s small booklets, with a history of the company at the end. Shamus Wade also sent out single pages of his new figures with his general toy soldier sales lists. I don't know...

Warriors from Jaipur, Rajasthan, in traditional chainmail. Beau Geste did a set, too (#75).

Careful, there was a fuss when I mentioned the Hocker Trump Regime sets a few years ago.{eek3}

Wade followed the Britains Ltd convention of one officer and seven other ranks in a standard infantry set. Below is a partial scan of the Nostalgia brochure with your guys. They are the third and fourth figures from the left. The brochure only showed the different figure types for each set, and...

He's from the "N" range, sold as individual figures, and all fixed-arm. 5N Cowboy (on Foot), with Pistol. Info from the 1940 Britains Catalogue.

They are a Nostalgia set, issued by Shamus OD Wade back in the 1970s. https://forum.treefrogtreasures.com/...-Figures/page2 See two photos in first post in the thread. I dug up a Nostalgia catalogue. This is set N147 Mosquito Indians, c1845. Figures designed by Andrew Rose. Figures in that...

I dug up a Nostalgia catalogue. This is set N147 Mosquito Indians, c1845. Figures designed by Andrew Rose. Figures in that particular catalogue were produced between August 1975 and December 1977.

Nostalgia. https://forum.treefrogtreasures.com/showthread.php?5141-Shamus-Wade-s-Nostalgia-Figures/page2 See two photos in first post in the thread. (This inquiry should be in the Glossy Figures section.)

Hi Victor, I'll say what I can about the figures based on these photos. The horse pose descriptions are the accepted collectors' terms for the poses. Top pic: Nose of trotting horse, two troopers on trotting horses, one trooper on walking horse. The rotting horse was only used for set 32 Scots...

Victor, the horse on the right in your picture is in what's referred to as the 'cantering' pose. It was used for the Scots Greys officer starting in 1953. Prior to then, the officer was on the same horse as the troopers, the walking pose, and was distinguished by gold painted uniform details...

Hi again, Victor. This site shows a matched 1953 version set 32 with "long-rein" walking horses. Paint style is correct (grey sprayed over white) for the version; box, as noted, is not. https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/britains-set-32-royal-scots-greys-2nd-1830596972

Hi Victor. Bill Hocker explains how he makes the moveable cavalry arms here: https://wmhocker.com/index.php?s=profile Scroll down to the 1991/92 interview. Yes, those are the 3 Scots Greys horse types - walking, trotting, and cantering. Pre 1953, they were all on the walking horse, the...

Maybe Hanks? Just found these in a past C&T auction: https://bid.candtauctions.co.uk/m/lot-details/index/catalog/84/lot/26348?url=%2Fm%2Fview-auctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F84%3Fpage%3D5 James Opie does the IDs on toy soldiers for this auction site, so I trust his call. Hanks was one of the main...

The postillions' whips are fine. Britains used two types of arms, whips up and whips down. For their military teams, they'd mix the pose. For some reason, on the State Coach set, it was always all one way or the other. I have pictures of both styles in my Britains image file.

Try Andrew at Replica Metal Soldiers (https://www.facebook.com/Figures.Replicametalsoldiers). He was doing recasts of B and W series figures for Johnnybach. Andrew's a fellow Treefrogger, but hasn't been on the Forum lately. He posts as Sandhurst39.