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OK, I got a chance to get to my reference library and look for anything on Townley. For older makers like this appears to be, I go first to John Garratt's "World Encyclopedia of Model Soldiers". Garrett has this brief article on Townley: So Mike, our instincts were correct. My Prussian...

They just might have originated with Tradition, Mike. Same goes for the "Townley" figures. I never heard of Townley, and I haven't researched the name yet. But I have 8 of the Prussian Hussars, T-520, and I have always thought they were Bussler copies of Tradition figures. They are exact...

Why not reach out to him in eBay via the private message feature and as him directly? I'd ask him if he could provide a photo of the figure with a ruler to give the measurement. Prost! Brad

High prices for convenience, be it an e-book or for a gallon of milk at the Wawa or Sheetz, don't annoy me, because I can choose not to buy them. Convenience has always had a higher price. Prost! Brad

I don't think using the London Bridge brand violated any agreement with Britain, but rather, was an additional way to identify figures he produced-along with the fact that they are solid-cast-as distinct from original Britains toy soldiers. Because there are a lot of solid copies of Britains...

I have to return to a favorite topic and give it a bump-drivers who plant their butts in the passing lane and sit there, who will not pull over into the slow lane. Inconsiderate in the literal sense of the word-they do not consider the result of their behavior. Prost! Brad

As someone said a couple posts back, three letters...

Randy Johnston, who bought London Bridge, kept the store's domain, https://londonbridgecollectorstoys.com/, and updated the website. I don't recall that Ron Ruddell ever produced figures as "London Bridge", that weren't his licensed Britains reissues. I have some solid castings of the Britains...

Here's another example made with the method John described, by cutting and filing a piece of metal stock to shape. This was to replace the blade shown in the photo, on a Stadden Prussian hussar. The original blade was much too thick, and too deep from cutting edge to spine. I cut that off...

Drones don't annoy me. They don't fly themselves. The idiot people who fly them carelessly annoy me. Prost! Brad

This is very sad! I knew Ray had been ailing the past couple of years; he had Kent Kline represent OTS at our show for several years. But didn't think he'd pass yet. He's actually a year younger than I am. Between his auctions and publishing Old Toy Soldier, he was a great promoter of the...

He's probably getting advice from his girlfriend at this point. Prost! Brad

I enjoy Kennedy's turns of phrase! Prost! Brad

I only heard that it was a buyer in the UK. John himself declined to say, out of discretion for the buyer. I've been watching to see if Rose castings appear on the market, but nothing yet. I'd really like to see the SYW Prussians, and the German cavalry become available again. Prost! Brad

Hi, Mal! John sold the Rose catalog molds that he had. He cut back on the amount of time he spends casting, to spend it on another hobby he has, photography. Besides Rose Models, he also had a good number of molds from Rylit's Seven Years War catalog. If you ever saw the group of Prussian...

That was a great idea to use those figures for the porters, Walt! Your conversion came out nicely! And the sedan chair looks really great, too. Prost! Brad

I make my own from wire stock, and even bobby pins (cut to length, filed thin, with a pin to attach). There is a company called G&G Miniatures, or GEG, that makes weapons in scale, though, for those who don't want to forge their own from scratch. They use a Facebook page...

I'm not sure they depict specific people. But the figure on the right in the first pic is a Prussian Gardes du Corps cuirassier officer, and could be meant to be Kaiser Wilhelm II. The second from the right is Admiral Nelson. The one in the middle is a WWII German officer, and the second from...

Victor Davis Hanson suggested this in a couple of his latest podcasts. The C-130 has the lifting capacity, and it wouldn't take major modifications to allow it to carry one. The Israelis are certainly capable of making appropriate mods to the transport. It's an alternative to having US aircrew...

Welcome to the forum! If these are 54mm, that is, 54mm from the top of a figure's head without headgear to the soles of its feet, my reflex reaction is that they are by Tradition. That's from the quality of the sculpting. But I need to take a closer look and look at some of my references to be...