Showing posts with label Other - Hobby Thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Other - Hobby Thoughts. Show all posts
Sunday, August 12, 2012

A special 'Find'

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Have you ever wondered where those lots of figures that you find on eBay come from? I always imagine that they come from folks cleaning up ...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

The Aftermath?

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Recently, while working on a post about casting soldiers, I took this picture to illustrate how the result looks when things don't go qu...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Why is it so captivating?

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There is something so enthralling, so captivating about seeing a neat, orderly formation of soldiers, all marching in step, with crisp unif...
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Saturday, March 3, 2012

A word about shipping Toy Soldiers

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I had been looking for Lone Star British Red Berets for a while. Some weeks ago I got a hold of some of them on eBay, but they did not conta...
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Sunday, January 1, 2012

A Cautionary Tale

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A few weeks back I came across the figures in this post on eBay. They were listed as Dulcop Turkish Infantry. The picture that came along w...
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Monday, September 12, 2011

Where do you get your figures from?

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Someone asked me recently where they could buy plastic toy soldiers, so I thought it might be a good idea to share my answer as a post. Th...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Hand-Painted vs Factory-Painted

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The attractive thing about adding some factory-painted figures to your ranks is that well, they are already painted so it can save you many ...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

So what do you do with them?

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Some people simply collect them. Some people use them for war-gaming. Some people like to build scenes or dioramas with them. Some people li...
Friday, June 10, 2011

Lining them up - Marx German Infantry

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Toy Soldiers. There is something about sorting them and grouping them by pose, about lining them up in neat, ordered lines which is very soo...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

To paint or not to paint?

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The older the figure, the trickier the answer. Whenever I consider painting a figure that is 40 or 50 years old I invariably feel torn. One ...
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Clones and Recasts

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These two terms are often used to describe copies of figures and they are sometimes used interchangeably. But is a clone always a recast? Is...