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  1. Rickskid

    what manufaturer do you like most?

    My favourite is Herald (Pre Britains take over) the quality of the molding and accuracy, I feel for common a day play soldiers has yet to be surpassed. I was a young kid in the 1960's and spent many a happy hour playing with them but unfortunately was nearly always "conned" into swapping them...
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    Lone Star WWII Germans Restored

    Scott, This is what they looked like in the e-Bay advert as you can see there wasn't a lot of paint left and the soldier surrendering has a broken rifle and no flag, I fabricated both from Tamiya resin filler stuck them on with cyanate super glue and painted them up. The same figures were...
  3. Rickskid

    What Toy Soldier items Have You Acquired in The Last 2 Weeks ?

    Aquired via an e-Bay auction. They were "paintless" when I got them. So a bit of restoration and creativity in MS Power Point for the backing card was required, I'm pleased with the results thaough. I've got some original Lone Star Anzacs on the way. Cheers Ian
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    Lone Star WWII Germans Restored

    I have just finished restoring these WWII Lone Star Harvey Series Germans that I purchased off e-Bay last week. To give them that extra sparkle I created a backing card in MS Power Point. I think it sets them off really well and reminds me of the same set that my Uncle bought me for Christmas...
  5. Rickskid

    what do you think about used toy soldiers?

    I only really got into collecting Plastic toy soldiers this past March when my Grandson arrived I supposed I wanted to strat buying the same soldiers, Herald, Crescent, Timpo that I had 50 years ago when I was a kid as I enjoyed playing with them so much. However I cannot resist restoring them...
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