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Polks Hobby shop was an amazing place. They had 4 or 5 floors with everything from models, model railroads & accessories, science supplies like chemistry sets & microscopes, one miniature soldiers, remote power boats and planes. When you walked in on there was a full wall case with Britain's...

That is how I got interested. I had the Castle with some Britain's knights that are still packed up. I started doing searches on toy soldiers on Ebay and found out about Elastolin. I didn't even know the name of them. This got me reinterested and I wound up buying some Normans, Vikings, and...

I dug up the box of my old Castle that I thought some people might be interested in seeing. I bought this as a kid in the 1970s from the now closed Polks Hobbyshop in NYC and it has survived 40 years of moves. After doing some research I determined that it was made by the French company Ougen...

I had toy soldiers as a kid and got into collecting them for a while in the late 1990s. I don't have that many (a few boxfulls) and never got into it big, never had any friends who were into collecting them, so I never mentioned it to anyone. I got interested in collecting those similar to...

Thanks, guys. Is there any size limits on the images? I was planning on keeping them less than 600 whatever units wide. Thanks

Hi, I am new here and rather than cause problems I would like to know if there is a limit on the posting of images in posts. thanks

I am not a fan of much of what Grossman writes. First, a lot of what he attributes to people not wanting to hurt other people can be as easily explained by people being afraid of being hurt themselves. Here is an interesting link to some criticism of Grossman...

Not sure if it falls under the category of Military Fiction, but UK General John Hackett wrote two what-if books: The Third World War and The Third World War The Untold Story.

The movie had me wanting to join the French Foreign Legion when I was a kid until I found out how hard and brutal it really was. But then again kids want to do anything. So I settled on buying a Box of Britain's Arabs and Legionaires.