What Toy Soldier items Have You Acquired in The Last 2 Weeks ? (5 Viewers)

[Louis Badolato]

I picked up some Honour Bound winter GI's and Germans:

 

[Fullyautomatic]

Louis looks like your last picture with the GI crawling has a rifle that shoots around corners...

 

[Louis Badolato]

Louis looks like your last picture with the GI crawling has a rifle that shoots around corners...

Don't worry, I straightened it right out when it arrived today!:salute::

 

[Louis Badolato]

I picked up this interesting Essex Regiment French Poilu set, which will be displayed on my Trophy/Heco Tinplate Models WWI diorama:

 

[Louis Badolato]

Thanks to the kindness of Tom, I also picked up this Poilu Trench crew with officer, also to be displayed on my Trophy/Heco Tinplate Models WWI diorama:

 

[ccdc11]

Love the Honor Bound sets.. TG panzer 4 arrived this week.

 

[tdubel]

Thanks to the kindness of Tom, I also picked up this Poilu Trench crew with officer, also to be displayed on my Trophy/Heco Tinplate Models WWI diorama:

Louis
How did I know you were bidding on the Kelsey set!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't bid, as you know the Dog figures get me every time, but I just had the feeling it was you so I didn't bid, nice pick up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tom

 

[Louis Badolato]

Louis
How did I know you were bidding on the Kelsey set!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't bid, as you know the Dog figures get me every time, but I just had the feeling it was you so I didn't bid, nice pick up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tom

Sorry Tom, didn't know you were interested. I bought the set, along with your set, to expand on the line of Trophy French Poilu being relieved by the British and American forces on my WWI diorama:

 

[Louis Badolato]

Got some more Trophy WW1 and Essex Regiment, WW1, Victorian and Napoleonic figures:

 

[Dragoon]

A couple of figures from Team Miniature's Franco Prussian War series. French Line Infantry - Well sculpted and very nicely painted.

 

[Mirof]

By sheer curiosity I bought a mass of Starlux Middle Age

 

[Louis Badolato]

My biggest and most expensive acquisition in a long time: I bought myself a Christmas present - the K&C mohagony Sikorsky Seahorse Helicoptor, displayed with my vintage K&C Firebase Diorama, all the K&C Vietnam releases from the 1990's, including the original mohagony Huey and the mohagony M113 APC:

 

[lancer]

My biggest and most expensive acquisition in a long time: I bought myself a Christmas present - the K&C mohagony Sikorsky Seahorse Helicoptor, displayed with my vintage K&C Firebase Diorama, all the K&C Vietnam releases from the 1990's, including the original mohagony Huey and the mohagony M113 APC:

Louis, most impressive. The Sikorsky is gorgeous. -- Al

 

[Obee]

A Britains 105mm Pack Howitzer has finally arrived from UK.



I have been after this version of the gun, they made 2, because the trail can be articulated and the wheels lowered to have it posed in Anti-Tank mode,



or firing


or towing.


AND his was the gun I served on during the 1970s ....



John

 

[wayne556517]

Good buy John

 

[Obee]

Good buy John

Yes, its the only mode of this gun that anyone has made.

This is the other version, but can't be posed in any firing configuration due to the joined trails, nor into towing, so a very poor substitute, purely a toy.



Also a very good price, but the post from UK wasn't too bad as I bought and other Stadden Nap too

John

 

[Arnhemjim]

To Members of the Forum,
Been giving some very serious thought recently regarding the hobby of toy soldier collecting, and objectively whether in its current state it still holds sufficient interest and motivation, necessary to commit my time, let alone financial resources. Briefly would like to discuss some of my considerations.

The hobby has essentially gone to the dogs, oh, I mean dioramists.
Dioramists moan and groan about scale, body proportions, this and that, on and on. To a great extent they can’t appreciate a set or figure on its individual merits, unless of course it’s a new aircraft or armoured fighting vehicle.
Not unlike the media of more classic and conventional art (with the obvious exception of modern abstract art), the elements of composition, historical accuracy, visual effects, and unique subject matter/backgrounds are significant factors. In this author’s opinion this tends to relegate the figures to merely an element, albeit essential, of the artist’s palette.
At least one forum has predominately become the permanent residence of art critics and photographic experts.
Simple straight grouped formations, the likes of the collections of Malcolm Forbes, Brown University, James Opie and Ed Ruby, are just Soo… declassee!
God help the manufacturer if they incorrectly paint any one of the 8 different WWII German Waffen-SS camouflage smock patterns.
But not one of the major companies (King & Country, Thomas Gunn, John Jenkins) can correctly produce a WWII British Denison Smock, colour or pattern. Andy Neilson had it correct for a while with his Market Garden series, but apparently quality control somehow went astray.
On several occasions, as is often the case in Hollywood movies, artistic license took over with the production of total fantasy pieces.
Even though the transition from 1:32 (54mm) to 1:30 (60mm) scale and a matte finish has afforded the resultant significant increase in detail, quality of figure sculpture and painting (and in most cases historical accuracy) has provided a major evolution from toy soldiers to military miniatures, even objects d’art.
However regardless of improvement, the one extremely downside element to all of this is the unfortunate logarithmic increase in prices, call it “flat earth”, globalization, or what you will, the hobby has all but priced itself out of the market, at least for the common garden variety collector.
If someone asks me the periodic question; What Toy Soldier items Have you Acquired in the Last 2 Weeks? This is my answer:https://arnhemjim.blogspot.com/2020/10/a-different-kind-of-gordon-highlander.html




Arnhem Jim
Arizona Territory

 

[Louis Badolato]

I managed to pick up a boxed set of the Honour Bound Winter Panzer Crew abandoning a knocked out tank:

 

[Poppo]

I managed to pick up a boxed set of the Honour Bound Winter Panzer Crew abandoning a knocked out tank:

Amazing dynamic poses and random clothes....These are perfect for the eastern front{sm3}{sm3}{sm3}

 

[Obee]

A couple of week's back I got some more French Napoleonic Staddens from a local collector.

Last year I got a dozen from him, and have now 'persuaded' him to sell a some more that I had wanted.

I'll post images when completed,


John

This weekend I have completed another couple of batches of Stadden figures from the Napoleonic era......


Buglers from Dragoons and Polish lancers of Napoleon's Imperial Guard.
The Dragoon is in full dress, while the lancer is in Campaign clothing.


British Lifeguard officer, Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington and an officer of the Royal Wagon Train.

More to come later this month ...

John