Hello,
Although I have lurked on these forums for the diorama section a couple of times I decided to register due to growing interest in collecting soldiers.
When I was a kid I've always had deep interest in the American Civil War and Napoleonic Wars, hence I was only 7 years old. I collected plastic figures from Italeri mostly, painted them and had a 3*2 meters large diorama base. As I grew older I lost interest as the usual teenage interests came along. Last year I started collecting a few Forces of Valor diecast models on the 1:32 scale but sadly after gathering a couple of them I stopped that because I felt they were too big and too expensive as they're not available in my country and for each package the fees were quite pressing.
Since I'm moving into a new house next month with my new girlfriend I figured it would be better to sell the diecast models. However, I do still have an urge to collect "toys" based on history. I did some research and got my eyes glued onto the screen after seeing these soldiers from Britains and king & Country. Heck, they also cover my favorite history topics. So maybe why not? They take up far less space, thus easier to collect more. Ofcourse they are still highly priced if you look at them seperatly but its still half to a third the price of a diecast tank, making it a lot more interesting to spread out.
So what I'd like to know is a little advice on the diffirent brands of soldiers. It seems King & Country are very very limited on the ACW, where Britains has plenty. I have read that Britains does pump out a lot of new releases, retiring older series. That seems to put a much higher fun factor when collecting through 2nd hand markets like Ebay etc. But what about other manufactorers when it comes to quality? Any suggestions you folks want to make or am I right in focusing on Britains? Quality and correctness I value highly, price ofcourse as well, so perhaps the best bang for bucks.
Perhaps there're some members from Europe reading a long, any good suggestions on online and offline shops for The Netherlands, Belgium or perhaps German/Netherlands border area?
1 funny thing I found out. Some of the Britains collections from around 1986 have those distinct lightgreen rectangular bottomplates, am I right? I remember having bought a few of them in Austria when I was about 6 ot 7. My parents gave them to me after I couldn't stop talking about ACW for weeks.
Much regards and happy collecting!
Although I have lurked on these forums for the diorama section a couple of times I decided to register due to growing interest in collecting soldiers.
When I was a kid I've always had deep interest in the American Civil War and Napoleonic Wars, hence I was only 7 years old. I collected plastic figures from Italeri mostly, painted them and had a 3*2 meters large diorama base. As I grew older I lost interest as the usual teenage interests came along. Last year I started collecting a few Forces of Valor diecast models on the 1:32 scale but sadly after gathering a couple of them I stopped that because I felt they were too big and too expensive as they're not available in my country and for each package the fees were quite pressing.
Since I'm moving into a new house next month with my new girlfriend I figured it would be better to sell the diecast models. However, I do still have an urge to collect "toys" based on history. I did some research and got my eyes glued onto the screen after seeing these soldiers from Britains and king & Country. Heck, they also cover my favorite history topics. So maybe why not? They take up far less space, thus easier to collect more. Ofcourse they are still highly priced if you look at them seperatly but its still half to a third the price of a diecast tank, making it a lot more interesting to spread out.
So what I'd like to know is a little advice on the diffirent brands of soldiers. It seems King & Country are very very limited on the ACW, where Britains has plenty. I have read that Britains does pump out a lot of new releases, retiring older series. That seems to put a much higher fun factor when collecting through 2nd hand markets like Ebay etc. But what about other manufactorers when it comes to quality? Any suggestions you folks want to make or am I right in focusing on Britains? Quality and correctness I value highly, price ofcourse as well, so perhaps the best bang for bucks.
Perhaps there're some members from Europe reading a long, any good suggestions on online and offline shops for The Netherlands, Belgium or perhaps German/Netherlands border area?
1 funny thing I found out. Some of the Britains collections from around 1986 have those distinct lightgreen rectangular bottomplates, am I right? I remember having bought a few of them in Austria when I was about 6 ot 7. My parents gave them to me after I couldn't stop talking about ACW for weeks.
Much regards and happy collecting!
