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There was a US distributor for Trophy Miniatures "The Toy Soldier" owned by Jim Hillested. His company logo was a Napoleonic French drummer boy wearing a bicorne hat. Trophy made a figure of the drummer boy and I've been trying to find one because I used to buy a lot of figures from Jim. The...

There are a number of new Trophy listings on eBay (June 1, 2019) that are listed as being from the Sam Floca Collection. Who is Sam and why does it matter that some toy soldiers came from his collection? Is this provenance important and add value to the item? ( in the same manner maybe as...

Martyn, have you ever put the four wagon sets together in one setting ( Durnfords last stand, the Quartermaster Says No, Incident At Isandlwhana and The Spears are Washed) diarama? Jim

I used an off-white muslim cloth (no pun intended) for the terrain and then enhanced it with som Woodlands Scenics extra fine railroad ballast and bits of lichen scattered here and there. I also made some Acacia trees made from plastic flowers purchased at Michael's Stores: clip off the ends...

The Camel Corps and the Northumberlands man the corner of the zariba.

The British deploy behind a well built zariba: Parade drill

I like to actually pull some of my Trophy figures off the storage shelf and Wargame the Sudan campaigns on the tabletop. We also use Red Box, Alymer, Britain's and John Jenkins Designs figures in our games. I will post some pictures of our Trophy games in the Sudan on this thread. If you too...

Martin, do you know when Len switched to rectangular bases for horses and camels? I have the same set of CC and found that they always tipped over which was frustrating. I'd place a small ball of wall mounting putty under each hoof to keep them standing on the display shelf. Jim

More of my Trophy only Camel Corps:

The Camel Corps with a mix of Trophy, Red Box, imperial and Britain's :

It is interesting to see how the various figures come together to create a vibrant tableau full of movement. Well done sir!

The made for TV version with Beau Bridges is my favorite Four Feathers movie.

There is a great collection of Prussian SYW artifacts at Forschstenstein Castle in Austria that is worth seeing (near Vienna, Austria).

I'm looking for five Trophy camels with rectangular bases to replace the five that I have that have no base. Camels fall over without the base. These are for my Camel Corps mounted figures. I'd also be interested in any Trophy Camel Corps mounted sets and am prepared to pay up for them. Jim

I'm going to give this a try. Jim

That's what I do with my really old Trophy and Under Two Flags camels horses. I use a white sticky putty material typically used for tacking pictures to walls. Jim

I might have an interest in your Sudan figures.

I could get into a LOT of trouble with these JJD figures, which I would use for Wargaming.

Nice looking Kitchener.

What types of figures are in your consignment lot?