W. Britain Battle Lines (1 Viewer)

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Treefrog Treasures in cooperation with W. Britain is hosting a new feature called “Battle Lines” on its web site. Battle Lines consists of essays about individual figures produced for collectors by W. Britain . The motivation behind these essays is that “Every Soldier Tells A Story”.

Battle Lines' purpose is to enhance the enjoyment and knowledge of collectors of the current series (2006 to the present) of W. Britain Soldiers. When a collector purchases one of these soldiers they are provided with information such as the war that the figure represents, the date of service, the regiment or unit of that figure, and indication of rank.

Battle Lines goes beyond that basic information to tell you more of that soldier’s “story”. This is accomplished through a series of brief essays that examine each soldier in historical and cultural context. There is information about the particular unit and battles that the soldier participated in and the uniform, weapons and equipment associated with him. Pictures of the soldier are often supplemented with additional images of historic relevance. It is our hope that after reading these articles you will come away with a greater appreciation and understanding of the W. Britain soldiers that you are collecting.

There are currently seven essays on the site covering ten different W. Britain figures. Additional essays will be added on a continuing basis and we will let collectors know about these through announcements in the Treefrog Rivet and on the Treefrog Treasures Toy Soldier Forum.

You can access these essays through the Resources button on the main page of the Treefrog Treasures web site

http://www.treefrogtreasures.com/

From the main Resources page, select Military Miniatures

From the Military Miniatures page select the link to Battle Lines. Found under Manufacturers.

Alternatively you can access Battle Lines directly from this link:

http://www.treefrogtreasures.com/reference/ttmmrbattlelinestitlepage.html

Battle Lines joins the archive of W. Britain catalogs (1983-present) hosted on the Treefrog Treasures web site documenting the production of this manufacturer which began making toy soldiers in 1893.
 

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Thank you for the info Randy, I will take some time later to sit, read & digest the articles and look forward to more in the future.


Scott
 
Seems like you've been very busy my friend and as always Randy a very nice job in putting it all together.........Joe
 
Interesting initiative, just remains to hope, these figures will not be issued at the rhythm one every 6 month…
 
Randy,
thanks to our hosts here and W.Britain along with your excellent research work we have another very valuable section on this forum/website.
Great job and much appreciated.
Konrad
 
Great Job Randy!! I read thru these and highly recommend it to everyone. It is very informative and it certainly accomplishes its goal in enlivening and enhancing my interest in the hobby.

Mark
 
This access to info is one of the main reasons this forum is so useful and fun. What a class act. Thanks to all involved. -- lancer
 
I have just read part of one of the essays, on the FIW, and what I have to say is: congrats on excellent and interesting work and many thanks for putting it together. Tonight I'll read the rest of the essay and feel the pleasure of learning...:p.

Cheers,
Paulo
 

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