What Toy Soldier items Have You Acquired in The Last 2 Weeks ? (3 Viewers)

[villagehorse]

Really nice piece. Always like the traction engines in all their forms. Robin.

 

[Louis Badolato]

Really nice piece. Always like the traction engines in all their forms. Robin.

Robin,

Here are some photos of the Heco Steam Traction Engine on one of my dioramas. If you look in the background, you will see Trophy and Metalshed Steam Traction Engines also on display.

 

[Vicknor]

Incredibly happy with my haul from this week’s trip to Tokyo with the great dio builder @belgiumfries . Not only did I manage to get a case-full of Tomica toy cars (anyone here a collector?), I managed to pick up two hard to get First Legion retired pieces; one of which is now costing me more in sales to Matt!

Here’s AG001 which is impossible to get over here in Asia normally;



And then an ever greater catch is SAM016!



I’m pretty sure I got these at just about MRRP too.

Am already planning my next Tokyo trip at CNY

 

[Htet]

Today just receive my first AeroArt figure. It look fantastic

 

[mestell]

John Jenkins Designs Inter-War Aviation IWA-12 F4B-4 Left Wingman landed on the deck of my USS Saratoga display this past Thursday afternoon. This completes my Fighter Squadron Six (VF-6B) Fighter Section 4. Waiting on the release of the deck crew figures now . . . . .
:smile2: Mike

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[Louis Badolato]

A few of my recent acquisitions, Trophy WWI set GW10 (Winter Supplies) and Aeroart/St. Petersburg Norman Conqueror Robert Guiscard:

 

[Artillery_crazy]

These last two weeks and a bit I have been working more like quartermaster than any given armchair General....:salute::These weeks were spent working with Obee on the final touches to a project we began one year ago....^&grin^&grin
Exactly one year go I sat down and started to devise a new dio that would contemplate a substantial supply column. A supply column that could picture it self-winding up the Khyber Pass as well as any grassland of the Transvaal during the second Boer War or even the second Sudan Expedition.... Well I thought that would be an easy task....well not so! First I had to source the mules and the loads...For that I had to tap the right sources of Mountford, Hinchcliffe/Rose and Asset miniature mules and mule handlers..and that is not readily available at your favourite internet hobby shop!....Just that was a logistic nightmare....The mule handlers....I thought this would be easy for I had plenty of Stadden rank and file that could be paired to the mules...errrr wrong.....Obee kindly shed light to the main error many manufacturers do....(Here I list Trophy, WBritains and all the rest...Little Legion escapes the block because they do offer the Indian handlers, and the buyer can order them or not). Obee pointed out that when on overseas duty the British army employed Indian Army contingents to move their supply columns as well as taking part of the fighting....So here I was also sourcing the Indian mule handlers...{sm3}{sm3}{sm3}...Luckly after an one year work, Obee plays his magic, and makes the whole thing come true....In this sequence I will show the mule handlers, two Indian mountain gun detachments ( Hinchcliffe and Rose). These two manufacturers along with Mountford in their golden days were the best mountain gun set ups I have ever seen...The mules I will skip showing, I prefer to introduce them to the picture once the dio is set up....

Hope you enjoy this one off set....

Hardly would I attempt saying a second one can be put together due to the scarcity of the figures needed..{sm2}{sm2}{sm2}

Cheers

Luiz

 

[Artillery_crazy]

Adding to these great sets Obee had time to come up with some brass both British and Indian.....as well as a nice nurse ^&grin:salute:::salute::

 

[johnnybach]

I completed my last piece to this set - today - (he's the Trumpeter!). It's taken me around a year to make it up - as each piece had to be sourced on the secondary market, repaired restored and repainted. They are all Britains except for the Officer who is by Benbros ( but stylistically - very close to the original Britains). I wanted a set of this Regiment - - 11th Hussars (The Cherry Pickers) on the old familiar "Rocking Horse" pose - an this is how they came out.

The reasons it took so long - was that I originally ordered the wrong head for the Trumpeter - and then came a health problem and then moving house intervened - but - I finally completed my set TODAY!

Hurrah! jb

 

[Louis Badolato]

Really great job, Johnny!^&cool^&cool^&cool^&cool

 

[Louis Badolato]

Good friend Rich Schuster gave me the Trophy WWI U.S. Head of the Column set:

 

[Louis Badolato]

I was able to buy a pretty special 12th birthday present for my son Alec, the Trophy Nile River Gunboat and Dhow:

 

[bromhead]

I completed my last piece to this set - today - (he's the Trumpeter!). It's taken me around a year to make it up - as each piece had to be sourced on the secondary market, repaired restored and repainted. They are all Britains except for the Officer who is by Benbros ( but stylistically - very close to the original Britains). I wanted a set of this Regiment - - 11th Hussars (The Cherry Pickers) on the old familiar "Rocking Horse" pose - an this is how they came out.

The reasons it took so long - was that I originally ordered the wrong head for the Trumpeter - and then came a health problem and then moving house intervened - but - I finally completed my set TODAY!

Hurrah! jb

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great restoration as is a good part of my collection

 

[Vicknor]

Filled in he gaps in the new K&C Romans collection with the Archers and others. Very happy with this series. Hoping cavalry don’t turn up too soon as I’m liking the individual figure collecting.

 

[marco55]

I got these 2 kits,theyare 1/32 scale or so it says.I basically collect French & Indian figures but Custer and the Little Bighorn has always interested me and the WWI cavalryman is just a great figure full of animation.
Mark

 

[marco55]

 

[White Knight]

The Barzso Nottingham Castle. Cost quite a penny, especially in shipping and taxes, but it's certainly an impressive model. Pictures will follow.

 

[Louis Badolato]

The Barzso Nottingham Castle. Cost quite a penny, especially in shipping and taxes, but it's certainly an impressive model. Pictures will follow.

I remember seeing a giant Barzo castle setup at the OTSN a few years back, it was very impressive!^&cool^&cool

 

[PanzerAce1944]

Filled in he gaps in the new K&C Romans collection with the Archers and others. Very happy with this series. Hoping cavalry don’t turn up too soon as I’m liking the individual figure collecting.

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Those Romans look quite sharp......Congrats ! :salute::

Wayne

 

[Mirof]

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Expecting a third post telling who the maker is....^&grin