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Nardi Indian woman in PasteWend Al circus man Nardi blister pack of the 7th

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The Voltigeur set is now wooden boxed and costs 22 pounds .The soldiers inside are unpainted.
You can still buy seperate though.Post free.

great Russian piece in 54mm of an Italian infantryman at Magenta 1859

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This is my foreign Legion conversion

and next is the Hachette vrsion

The Legionaaire from 1858 is one of my all time favourte èpieces ever.Its 80mm but what a figure.From Hachette. After ar my new castings

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1. I walked into this Venice Mestre store and there they all were at penny prices. I bought them.Here they are or at least one. Thats one of my US Marine boxes behind for my range of 54mm US marines in Mexico
   I was given this by a kid who'd discovered girls and you know the rest.
   
   Timpos painted up by a collector
   
   
   
   The old Airfix kit
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

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1.Morelia made Reb .This was actually Nardi from Milan but called Morelia in Argentina. Strange piece with the head too big for the body but it does have personality
2.KINGS AFRICAN LEGION conversion from Matchbox Afrika Korps.3.SOLDATINO magazine. I used to buy this every month but it has now reached around 10 pounds a copy so I said thank you very much but you can keep it.Its a better magazine than Toy soldier (thats basically a catalogue type thing now) and concentrates on painting ,showing technique on 54mm soldiers. These Germans with deaths head on their helmets would be a great conversion thing on lets say deetail pieces but who are they what regiment? Do you know? Finally a running Union officer from Xiloplasto a plastics firm in Italy that also did Swoppitts.By the way if you come here please click all the ads.Lets help each other.

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the aTLANTIC SERIES OF THE rUSSIAN REVOLUTION ALSO PRODUCED THIS QUITE NOT BAD COSSACK.wAS HIS HORSE MADE LIKE A cOSSACK PONY ON PURPOSE WHO KNOWS BUT THE WHOLE POINT OF COLLECTING aTLANTIC IS THE FACT THAT THEY ARE PEARLS FROM THE MIND OF MAN'S IMAGINATION; AT LEAST IN THE REALMS OF TOY SOLDIERS.

hINCHCLIFFE THE Zulu series was one of their best.I don't even know if it is still going but they certainly were one of the first to take the staid look at the camera pose and turn 54mm into skirmish wargaming as rewgards the metal soldier. This inspired my own output.



















This firm is not often seen but they do look very interesting. The infantry are 20 bucks a shot painted.













PRINZ AUGUST: I love the idea behind Prinz August and John O'Brien on his site has some great painted pieces but they always look a bit wooden to me.There's something in the 54mm production that just doesn't hit the mark.
The WW2 series of Atlantic as regards Starlingrad brought us these pieces.Atlantic really look great if you care to put some effort into your painting.These soldiers,for some reason, are rarely seen anywhere painted but they are brilliant efforts all the same. I think these Russians are great.

TOY SOLDIERS

the first picture is of the old range of thomas tin soldiers. tHESE WERE NICE PIECES BUT i DON'T KNOW IF THEY ARE STILL GOING.then we HAVE ANOTHER OF OUR FIXED BAYONET PIECES THAT WE ARE SELLING AT 5 POUNDS.PLUS A french CAVALRY ATTACK.A NICE PRINT THIS ONE. IN CONCLUSIONM THE WILD GEESE ATTACK COURTESY OF PRINZ AUGUST

ALL THE KINGS MEN

All the kings men.the first two photos. below are French Sharpshooters plus Dulcop first world war Italians plus FIXED BAYONET