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Andrew Roberts, who wrote The Last King of America, will be speaking at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia at Friday, Feb 25th at 6:00pm. You can get more information or RSVP through bhovell@amrevmuseum.org

Beautiful work! That is an incredibly effective job of illuminating the cooking fire. Is this diorama in a box or open? Reminds me of photos of S Paine scenes in old Military Modeler and Campaigns magazines.

What a collection of great old Staddens and others! For someone who grew up on Henry Harris, John Garratt, and Roy Dilley books, these photos are amazing! It's great to see that these kind of historical miniatures are still making people happy. Thanks a million for sharing the link.

My son and I spent a pleasant morning fighting a "Blue vs Red" battle using J. Morschauser's rules from 1962. If anyone out there collects (or at least hasn't thrown out) Airfix HO soldiers you may get a kick out of these photos.

A couple of classics that both tell good stories but also give young people an idea of what kinds of films were being made at the time are "Mrs Miniver" (1942) and "Battleground" (1949). A lot less gore made it into these productions than the two films you watched, and the story telling is also...

This is a beautiful group, and a great photo too. Models definitely bring up memories in unexpected ways. I grew up in Albuquerque and this is what your scene brings to mind: 1.) Britains Deetail Mexicans in the glass display cabinets at Toy's By Roy back in the 1970s and 2.) the State Fair...

All of these are beautiful! Thanks to WHDamon for tip on the fishing fly wire, I will be heading out to get some soon. I usually use sheet lead from old wine bottles for reins and belts but that is getting hard to find. The job that you did with the wire and putty to build up the spike on his...

Really attractive - I like the way that you have the light infantry on the flanks!

These were fun to watch! Does anyone know whose booth is the second one in the first video, in between the W Britains table and the MTM terrain models display?

What I would do if I was bringing back the sheen to something is use mineral oil. I have tried it with some figures that I was afraid were getting lead rot and it worked very well. Put a few drops between your thumb and forefinger tips and then gently rub the figure. Not enough to get it...

Thank you both. I appreciate the specific guidance on the solder, I wil look for that and try it with my 25w iron. You are right about the older books - Donald Featherstone's Military Modeling from 1970 has a really good chapter on soldering but it is unclear what equipment he is describing...

These are some recent projects to fill holes in my lineup. The mounted Crown Equerry is based on the photo in the background of the workbench photo, which is the guidebook I got at the Royal Mews a few years ago. The basic figure is a recast of a Britains staff officer that I got from a...

Nice work on the figure Wolfgang! This is a great example of what our hobby can do to enlighten each other about history. You made me look into the Rotfront, and dig out my old copy of Homage to Catalonia as well as an old article I have on the Lincoln Battalion/Brigage. I don't know that I...

I had a damaged farmer who had lost an arm and nearly lost his left leg at the ankle. Having just read Janet Glover's excellent biography of composer George Frederick Handel, I figured that worse things could happen to this figure and got to work. I made an 18th century coat using the foil from...

Re: Britains Famer converted to GF Handel - ref picture

I had a damaged farmer who had lost an arm and nearly lost his left leg at the ankle. Having just read Janet Glover's excellent biography of composer George Frederick Handel, I figured that worse things could happen to this figure and got to work. I made an 18th century coat using the foil...

Here is one that features toy soldiers! I wouldn't call it a great film, but well worth the time for those of us that like this sort of thing. The Queen's Guards, with Daniel Massey, available on YouTube though I don't think the link will work here. THE QUEEN'S GUARDS (1961) Daniel Massey -...

It's hard to not appreciate the artwork on most boxes, so tossing them out is hard for me. Unfortunately that means they sit empty, inside bigger boxes in the basement, taking on all of the damp odors that they can find! I have and will continue to cut the black strings and take every soldier...

This is a nice old kit - what a great find. I was lucky enough to visit the Royal Mews in London in October and see the collection of coaches. Anyone who has the chance and loves either horses, coaches or just beautiful craftsmanship should check it out. I hope that this goes together nicely...

I think that these are by Hampton Miniatures out of New England. See the Crown Military Miniatures site, look under Hampton, then Around the World. I first saw this company featured in Yankee Magazine back in the late 70s or early 80s under the name Warwick, I think. They do strangely...