Spencer Smith Figures for Close Little Wars
Peter Johnstone still sells the Spencer Smith Miniatures range of figures from the 1960s. http://www.spencersmithminiatures.co.uk They prove interesting and charming toy soldier figures for my...
View ArticleReverse Colours Khaki Redcoats # 1
As well as the odd redcoat repaint of dull khaki figures, some figure manufacturers did the opposite and painted their ceremonial or redcoat figures khaki. This interesting khaki Scotsman figure...
View ArticleMan Craft hero # 1
My first Man Craft Hero featured on this blog is shown here from the August 1983 Military Modelling magazine, one of the early editions of this magazine that my Dad bought home for me. I love this fort...
View ArticleHobby Learning # 1: Andrew Wyeth
What I like about gaming and toy soldiers are all the incidental things you learn. Such “Hobby Learning” you might assume to be all about battles, weapons and suchlike. “The pleasure does not begin...
View ArticleCharbens US Army Men
An attractive paint scheme (if poor face painting) for a Charbens G I American infantryman figure of hollow-cast lead. This colour scheme would work well in gloss acrylic on pound store plastic...
View ArticleFather’s Day RAF Firefighter
This Father’s Day gift this year has a double significance. My late father had a small and much loved collection of lead toy figures during the Second World War. Somehow these figures did not survive...
View ArticleWW2 Platoon Level Close Little World Wars rules
Close Little (World ) Wars Recently I have been improvising a WW2 platoon level version of Donald Featherstone’s ‘Close Wars’ rules. These were originally written as an appendix in his book War Games...
View ArticleRLS – Martial Elegy for Some Lead Soldiers
Robert Louis Stevenson, taken from the “Stevenson at Play” magazine article by Lloyd Osbourne, 1898.
View ArticleThe Remount Department # 1 – Army Blue
Here are more of the damaged and paint bashed play-worn scrap or repair figures to join Army Blue (as H.G. Wells would call them). These are Imagi-Nations paint schemes, channeling mixed uniform...
View ArticleMore Toy Wreckage for the Repair Bench – Opening Boxes 1 to 3
One of the delights of slowly unpacking presents after Christmas is to look in these wreckage and repair boxes. I bought these cheaply online over the least few months to store away, bought as part...
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