Well Flock My Ravelins!

Four Ravelin gun emplacements by Sarissa put together and flocked, a quiet weekend.

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Huzzah!

Work in Progress – All part of building up 15mm Warlord Games Pike and Shotte Epic Battles forces for the Civil War and extending them up to the Dutch Wars and 1690s.

Blog posted by Mark Man Of TIN, 29/30 July 2023

A Jamboree by Post from Peter Johnstone

Fifty shiny new recruits from the 42mm STS Little Britons Range from Peter Johnstone

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Faking Lead 2: More Dark Troopers in 54mm and War Toys of The Galactic Toyshop …

More battered former Star Wars storm troopers, 54mm plastic figures repainted as playworn lead dark troopers for my not quite canon Sci Fi world of Close Little Space Wars.

Battle-scarred and play-worn Dark Trooper 54mm metal figures of The Imperious Empyre with some original packaging, seen amongst the many other Toy treasures of the Museum Of Galactic Childhood on the planet of Corusgurrl (Image from their holo-cast website)

Close Little Space Wars: “a game played throughout the Galaxy for boys from seven years of age to one hundred and fifty played and for that the more intelligent sort of girlwho likes boys’ games and books, and for the more intelligent forms of life, extraterrestrials and aliens etc …”

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Faking Lead – Painting that Playworn Patina on Plastics

Dark Troopers? Scar Wars? Battle Scar Galacticans? 54mm Star Wars plastic figures get painted the wrong colours with an ageing paint scheme of old lead …

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H is for Heritage

Dutch Raids Of The 1660s, Redcoats and coastal artillery forts …

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Watching out for those Dutchmen – Warlord Games Epic Battles 15mm ECW pike troops painted as dual use for 1650s to 1680s Games …

Star Wars Space Figure Hollow-Cast conversion

A battered 1938 Taylor and Barrett lead ARP figure ends up in outer space.

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Robert Louis Stevenson’s Toy Soldiers Revealed RLS Museum California

RLS’ own Toy Soldiers pictured at the RLS Museum St Helena California

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