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Hi Brad, do have a fantastic birthday - whishing you all the very best, health, love and joy for your entire upcoming new year. Feier schön mit Freunden und der Familie, denn sie sind Dein größtes Geschenk. All the best Regards Wolfgang

Easter … tastes like a chocolate bunny, smells like spring, sounds like children’s laughter, looks like a colourful Easter egg and feels like a smile. Enjoy collecting. Happy Easter!

Painted this standard Elastolin figurine No 3208 up as a "Glossy" Skeleton Warrior of the Cimbu tribe, Papua New Guinea Somehow different enjoy Redgards Wolfgang

This is another great book on Frederic the Great Army. Printed in landscape format it does cover all of the 21 major battles the King of Prussia fought during his reign. The book starts with the: First Slesian War 16.12.1740 - 11.6.1742 Mollwitz 1741 Chozositz 1742 Second Slesian War 17.8.1744...

I remember that some nice German WWI soldiers "with gas masks in front of their chest" (Glossies) where posted here somewhere on this forum. I simply do not remember where. I searched the usual suspect threads but could not find them. If my memory serves me right, there where 3 identical...

As I need a little background item for a planned vignette I bought a cheap stature on Ebay. I painted it in gloss but the effects will work in matte as well. I emphasized the painted areas a little in order to keep true to the glossy character of the planned vignette. Painting went on really...

Based on the beautiful and successful Thread "What Toy Soldier items Have You Acquired in the Last 2 Weeks?" I had this idea for a new Thread after just returning from the local flea-market here in Bonn Germany. As Toy Soldier Stores are disappearing more and more I wonder if members would like...

Lieber Brad, Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag und alles erdenklich Gute für das neue Lebensjahr Maximales Prost! :smile2: Wolfgang

I am not a role player or fantasy nerd at all, but once cirumstances dictate I like to use the tools or our trade to relax from button counting, casting, research etc. and simply enjoy letting go of my fantasy. Yes, yes I know no comments asked for on this one{sm4} So this is Robbi the...

This is my personal favourite in Germany. Run by the Bundeswehr, they have been extremly helpful aiding my own research in the past and very well worth a vist. Bonus: Koblenz is a wonderful city with lots and lots of historical sites. Ships and boats of the "Roman Rhine Fleet" are on display at...

German Armour does enjoy some common interest. Now this is a link from Germany pointing to the Panzermuseum Munster with it´s 160plus exhibition pieces. :salute::

I wonder if these are original K&C Glossies, can anybody help please? Thank you very much Regrads Wolfgang

Hello, I am usually not a friend of posting (just) links of new Toy Soldier or related Hobby pages since these might be interesting to view for a day but tgend to be not too hot soon after. The following is different, by the time you have worked yourself througl that very rich content, you will...

This is one for inbetween. A conversion of a 1934, 7cm Elastolin Flag Bearer. Cast in Resin, than modified with a replaced head. Flag was drawn and painted by myself. The Rotfront movement formed after WWI in Germany, also known as Der rote Frontkämpferbund. Serving with the international...

Hallo Marcus, alles Gute zum Geburtstag und viel Glück im neuen Lebensjahr. Grüße Wolfgang

Hopeing that all of you got through 2020 well. Wishing everybody a very happy New year - stay heathy. Hope you like it. Regards Wolfgang

For painting my armies of gloss Toy Soldiers I mainly use the traditional brands of Revell and Humbrol Enamel colours. I like both for their high gloss finnish. Recently I was lucky to fetch some MOLAK paint tins. This italian brand does excellent Enamel paints and I really like these paints a...

Looking at some of the threads I had to realise that the pictures are missing. This occured after the move to the new server. Since I do not know what is causeing this I wonder if anybody could advise. I am useing Windows XP, deleted the old bookmark and emptied the cache - but still no...

Some pictures of my weekend project. It is not really sculpting to be honest but converting of stock Elastolin figures. I mght build a mold an cast these figures. rgds Wolfgang

Trying to brighten up a little over my present workbench chaos I started to do some testpainting on my converted and casted figurines. Trying to find a somehow matching colour to represent the true figure painters nightmare of the shade of Feldgrau - fieldgrey I just played around with...