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

[saxon lions]

Thanks Louis as to have my model favourably compared to those of Tony Williams must be the ultimate compliment. In actual fact the only way I was able to create the awkward front landing gear was to study a number of Tony's Blériot models to see if I could find a way to copy them without soldering. In the end luck was with me on this one.

 

[jason foote]

Great looking display. A few years ago I visited both the Rhodes and Malta visiting the Knights strongholds amongst other delights, Both islands having fantastic museums detailing their history. Malta just getting the prize with so much to see, though if you fancy time to relax on a beach as well, then Rhodes takes the prize !

I love you pictures P n P, great collection

 

[Tiger131]

After a bit of a time away from collecting, I picked up the TG Winter German breakfast club. I absolutely love TG’s winter Germans and I’m eagerly awaiting more!

 

[Wolfgang_UK]

I found these on EBAY Germany a while ago. The size is about Heyde size. Like them a lot as it is interesting to see how the maker worked with tin plate an cast pieces. Great potential to play with.

Managed to post my first photos with the forum style - rather impressed, worked well and easy !!!

 

[BHogan]

The latest additions to my Napoleonic collection - a versatile civilian (MK231 "The Country Maid") and the emperor himself (NA512 "Napoleon as Colonel of the Imperial Guard"). Both are by K&C. They look great with some of K&C's Old Guard and foot dragoons to keep them company.

Brendan

 

[Wolfgang_UK]

Got these today. All Elastolin 75mm pre 1945, the nurse is most likly an unmarked Duro Figurine from Begium.
In case you are interested in where I got these I allow myself to direct you to this brilliant new
thread:

Where are your local huntig grounds for Toy Soldiers ?

Based on the beautiful and successful Thread "What Toy Soldier items Have You Acquired in the Last 2 Weeks?" I had this idea for a new Thread after just returning from the local flea-market here in Bonn Germany. As Toy Soldier Stores are disappearing more and more I wonder if members would like...

forum.treefrogtreasures.com

 

[Barkmann]

Picked up these, the K & C BotB British are excellent and needed them to complete my BotB British and the Comet.

 

[saxon lions]

Captured French Monoplanes - 1. REP Type K

Some time ago at the instigation of my friend from the Forum Gunther UK I began researching into a number of early WWI monoplanes from the same time frame as my Bleriot and Taub. Hence I was inspired to add a pair of unusually shaped and little known captured French early war monoplanes to my collection obviously in my favoured HECO style.

The first with its triangular shaped fuselage is a REP Type K 80 two-seater although some sources state it to be a Type N. I was only able to resolve this issue through the Albin Denis web site on WWI French aviation. The Type K having a ‘comma’ shaped rudder whilst the Type N had a triangular shaped tail and rudder. Initially I thought the plane was an experimental type but I discovered that the REP company was set up by Robert Esnault-Pelterie a pre-war pilot and inventor to produce racing planes and later potential war planes. These were purchased in one form or another by the Royal Navy as well as the air services of France and Turkey. Some of the latter service's planes ending up in Serbian service covered by the Kagaro publication 'R.E.P. type F in Royal Serbian Air Force'. The French Air Service went to war with two escadrilles REP (later SPAD) 15 and 27 completely equipped with a mixture of the Type Ks and Ns produced by the company.



I discovered that all REP aircraft left the factory in the company's distinctive red livery and initially the French only applied national markings to the the tail and wing undersides to prevent friendly ground fire as there was little or no danger of fire from above. This particular Type K probably originally with REP 15 was captured by the Germans who likewise only over painted the existing French national insignia with crosses but wrote on it ' Erbeutet vom II Res. Korps 3.12.14’. This Gunther reliably informed me translates as 'Taken as (war) booty by II Reserve Corps’.


Pictures better showing the underwing crosses and triangular fuselage with the German graffiti.

Subsequently, the REP company was unable to produce any other successful designs which nearly ruined the inventor and his family. However, in 1908 Robert Esnault-Pelterie had invented and patented the ‘joystick’ and after the war successfully sued numerous companies winning damages and royalties that made him a very wealthy man.
Captured French Monoplanes - 2. De

 

[saxon lions]

Captured French Monoplanes - 2. Deperdussin TT

Armand Deperdussin a silk-broker became involved in the aviation and in 1912 setting up the Société de Production des Aéroplanes Deperdussin which produced some successful racing aircraft from which the Deperdussin TT was developed for the French Aviation Militaire subsequently equipping two Escadrilles (D4 and D6) with the plane in 1912. The Deperdussin TT remained in service till 1915. Russia and Turkey purchased further machines with the Russian Company Lebed license producing over 60 planes for The Imperial Russian Air Service which served on the Eastern Front till late 1916.

On 20 January 1915 Pilot Karpovich along with Observer Kiselëv of the 19th KAO [19th Corps Aviation Detachment], made an emergency landing in Skierniewitz (modern-day Skierniewice), then under German control in this Lebed made Deperdussin. Photographs show the plane retained its Russian XIX - 2 unit marking when the plane received German Crosses. In order to create the unusual oval shaped cockpit area on model I used plummer's copper pipe the result is one of my favourite scratch builds



Armand Deperdussin was disgraced in 1913 when accused of obtaining bank loans by fraud and forgery. The company was taken over by Blériot Aéronautique in 1914 and renamed the Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés (SPAD) going on to produce the famous line of SPAD aircraft used in WWI by all the Allied forces.

If interested I have also recently finished the last of my HECO 'Windfall' - See the HECO Thread.

 

[blaster]

I bought an upgraded transformer. Now I can plug in three power tools simultaneously with different drill bits to speed up my fun.