What Toy Soldier items Have You Acquired in The Last 2 Weeks ? (4 Viewers)

[Mirof]

This is what happens when you get some ' lost treasures from Hinchliffe, add to that equation two crazy guys....one ( me ) to search around for sets and propose changes to come up with unique new dios , then the second one ( Obee - half the world away )...a very professional artist that can actually make the first crazy guy's ideas come true........{sm4}^&grin...well you get a great set of Indian Colonial Mountain artillery set with some supporting infantry giving protection to the gun and gunners as they fire long range salvos at Afeghan fighters blocking the passage of the main British column into the Kyhber Pass.....
John, just sent me these pics and I look froward to having them sometime in January and therefore share with you all full dio set ups.....:smile2:

Cheers A_C[/QUOTE]


Nice to see
here the original Hinchliffe set ( more in fo to see in catalogs at http://www.mirofsoft.com/nostalgia-old-catalog-pdf/ )


I particularly liked the WWI artillery train ( pity unfindable )



Reminder: some set were reissued with the brandname Caldercraft ( formerly a Hinchliffe sister company )

 

[Louis Badolato]

I picked up this outstanding CJB Models AFS Scammell Fire Trailer:

 

[kogu]

This is what happens when you get some ' lost treasures from Hinchliffe, add to that equation two crazy guys....one ( me ) to search around for sets and propose changes to come up with unique new dios , then the second one ( Obee - half the world away )...a very professional artist that can actually make the first crazy guy's ideas come true........{sm4}^&grin...well you get a great set of Indian Colonial Mountain artillery set with some supporting infantry giving protection to the gun and gunners as they fire long range salvos at Afeghan fighters blocking the passage of the main British column into the Kyhber Pass.....
John, just sent me these pics and I look froward to having them sometime in January and therefore share with you all full dio set ups.....:smile2:

Cheers A_C

Nice to see
here the original Hinchliffe set ( more in fo to see in catalogs at http://www.mirofsoft.com/nostalgia-old-catalog-pdf/ )
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I particularly liked the WWI artillery train ( pity unfindable )
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Reminder: some set were reissued with the brandname Caldercraft ( formerly a Hinchliffe sister company )[/QUOTE]


Hi Mirof,

I am really looking forward to seeing your Mountain Artillery set, once you've received it.

The WWI Artillery Train is indeed a hard to find kit.
I had one, but gave it to a collector friend who is able to make the most out of it.

Konrad

 

[kogu]

I picked up this outstanding CJB Models AFS Scammell Fire Trailer:

Louis,

you are so right.
That is a really beautiful set.
Congratulations to this latest addition to your CJB collection {bravo}}

Konrad

 

[Louis Badolato]

Thanks Konrad!:smile2: But it pales in comparison to your wonderful Christmas present. You with your Grandson as toy soldiers, absolutely brilliant!^&cool^&cool^&cool^&cool

Shortly after my father, a lifelong pigeon fancier, was killed in a car accident a couple of years ago, I was at Jim Hillestad's open house and bought my son a set with a pigeon coop, an elderly gentleman caring for the pigeons, and a young boy sitting on a crate holding one of the pigeons. It sits proudly on his mantle as a reminder of the grandfather he loved. I think it is wonderful that your grandson and you will have commemorated the special bond between grandfather and grandson while you are alive to enjoy that relationship.:smile2:

 

[PanzerAce1944]

I picked up this outstanding CJB Models AFS Scammell Fire Trailer:

Looks like a unique, nicely done set :salute::

 

[Louis Badolato]

Looks like a unique, nicely done set :salute::

Thank you! I was thrilled to find it, and I even found a vintage 1930's Operator's Manual to display with it:

 

[Fubar]

Yet More Zulu's. Inching towards the 300 goal for a Isandlwana battle. Mostly Britain's some Frontline which while different in style are well done and relatively inexpensive. Found a few plastics lurking in my junk box , time to paint.
fuBar

 

[Artillery_crazy]

Santa was very good with me this year.....guess I did the right things...{sm4}^&grin - - Obee gave a great hand in this....Here are some of the French Foreign Legion troops in the field, at na oasis and also quartered at their barracks in Oran.....They are all scale link and the dios are J&G and K&C......

 

[Louis Badolato]

Nice, Luiz!^&cool^&cool

 

[Artillery_crazy]

...{sm4}^&grin - - Obee gave a great hand in this....Here are some of the French Foreign Legion troops in the field, at an oasis and also quartered at their barracks in Oran.....They are all scale link and the dios are J&G and K&C......

 

[Artillery_crazy]

....Here are some of the French Foreign Legion troops in the field, at an oasis and also quartered at their barracks in Oran.....They are all scale link and the dios are J&G and K&C

 

[4th Hussar]

Santa was very good with me this year.....guess I did the right things...{sm4}^&grin - - Obee gave a great hand in this....Here are some of the French Foreign Legion troops in the field, at na oasis and also quartered at their barracks in Oran.....They are all scale link and the dios are J&G and K&C......

More pics , pls

 

[Artillery_crazy]

.....They are all scale link and the dios are J&G and K&C

 

[Artillery_crazy]

More pics , pls

Hi 4th Hussar, I am happy you like them, I was very happy also....it took me and Obee one full year to get all the parts and pieces together, then a lot of e-mailing, parcels crossing the high seas and you name it....and it all came together just beofre Christmas.....there are around 200 diferente pics at my profile under the public albums called French Foreign Legion or you can join the public group called French Foreign Legion to which I have also added all these pics and more to come during 2014.....^&grin

 

[Jack]

Just added these to the Collection. I am particularly happy with the knight.

 

[villagehorse]

Just added these to the Collection. I am particularly happy with the knight.


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Those guys on the ground that the Knight has taken out, surely they are from a different era??Robin.

 

[Jack]

Those guys on the ground that the Knight has taken out, surely they are from a different era??Robin.

I like to mix and match my collection. Anyone can match offerings from different manufacturers. It takes skill to make Zulus and Agincourt work{sm4}

 

[Obee]

Hi 4th Hussar, I am happy you like them, I was very happy also....it took me and Obee one full year to get all the parts and pieces together, then a lot of e-mailing, parcels crossing the high seas and you name it....and it all came together just beofre Christmas.....there are around 200 diferente pics at my profile under the public albums called French Foreign Legion or you can join the public group called French Foreign Legion to which I have also added all these pics and more to come during 2014.....^&grin

I'm so pleased with the way that Luiz has set up the figures in the diorama.

I assembled and painted them in 3 sets of about 12-15 figures, but seeing them all together makes it all worthwhile.

Well done Luiz,

John

 

[Louis Badolato]

The Heco Tinplate Models German Mobile Radar Installation I purchased at the London Show last June finally arrived: