The Most Memorable or Enjoyable Experience With Toy Soldiers
Here's a chance to swap stories: What is your best memory regarding toy soldiers? Was it a particular set you received? A memorable battle fought with the little guys? Or... use your imagination (just keep it to a PG please ;-) ).
Hi yesterday went in a colectors fair in Skipton, Yorkshire, Engand and picked up 5 x Britains Deetail Waterloo Highand Infantry. The enjoyment is the last bargain or rare find 9thHussar
I collected Britains deetail Knights and Turks as a boy, and I still remember those massed silvery-metallic formations - roughly a hundred figures each - with many multiples of the variation of 11 foot men-at-arms, single archer X 40 (which I had to visit many toyshops over a wide geographic range to get all these), and many many times the 6 different mounted knights. They gave a fearsome battle to the Turks. The sight of massed cavalry in gleaming armour riding big impressive horses (though I sold them all a few decades ago in the mid-80's) charging the Turks gave me great pleasure, and left me with wonderful memories of what can be achieved in 54mm scale. Today, now well-settled with wife and family, knights have been largely substituted by Cuirassiers and other Napoleonic cavalry in my collection (an order of magnitude bigger), but the thrill still remains with me.
My very first recollection of toy soldiers was getting an army camp set for Christmas when I was 4. Plus a buggle to wake them up. A lot of the memories have to do with seeing sets for the first time, like the Marx Civil War set in the Sears catalog in the last 1950s. Also standing next to a stack of Davy Crockett Alamo sets that actually towered over me. I didn't get one of those till about 30 years later.
Receiving a wooden Fort Laramie and US 7th Cavalry + Indians and a covered wagon when aged about eight. My mum had been paying for the fort most of the year and bought a cavalryman and an indian each time she visited the shop to pay her next installment. Found this out years later, it was the best Christmas present I ever received and had 100's of hours of play. That was 1961 and I can still remember that morning as if it was yesterday.
As a kid- getting a complete Swoppetts ACW set at New Market Battlefield Va around 1970. As an adult that really catapulted me back to 54mm was walking into a Hobby shop and seeing the Conte Hold Until Relieved playset. I had to have that and soon after Ultimate soldier and Forces continued to thrill me with vehicles.
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looking at some of my Painting and doing a nice conversion make me happy.
Games and set ups as a kid with my best friend are also great memories.
Hi
yesterday went in a colectors fair in Skipton, Yorkshire, Engand and picked up 5 x Britains Deetail Waterloo Highand Infantry.
The enjoyment is the last bargain or rare find
9thHussar
I collected Britains deetail Knights and Turks as a boy, and I still remember those massed silvery-metallic formations - roughly a hundred figures each - with many multiples of the variation of 11 foot men-at-arms, single archer X 40 (which I had to visit many toyshops over a wide geographic range to get all these), and many many times the 6 different mounted knights. They gave a fearsome battle to the Turks. The sight of massed cavalry in gleaming armour riding big impressive horses (though I sold them all a few decades ago in the mid-80's) charging the Turks gave me great pleasure, and left me with wonderful memories of what can be achieved in 54mm scale. Today, now well-settled with wife and family, knights have been largely substituted by Cuirassiers and other Napoleonic cavalry in my collection (an order of magnitude bigger), but the thrill still remains with me.
Stephen A.
My very first recollection of toy soldiers was getting an army camp set for Christmas when I was 4. Plus a buggle to wake them up.
A lot of the memories have to do with seeing sets for the first time, like the Marx Civil War set in the Sears catalog in the last 1950s. Also standing next to a stack of Davy Crockett Alamo sets that actually towered over me. I didn't get one of those till about 30 years later.
Receiving a wooden Fort Laramie and US 7th Cavalry + Indians and a covered wagon when aged about eight. My mum had been paying for the fort most of the year and bought a cavalryman and an indian each time she visited the shop to pay her next installment. Found this out years later, it was the best Christmas present I ever received and had 100's of hours of play. That was 1961 and I can still remember that morning as if it was yesterday.
As a kid- getting a complete Swoppetts ACW set at New Market Battlefield Va around 1970. As an adult that really catapulted me back to 54mm was walking into a Hobby shop and seeing the Conte Hold Until Relieved playset. I had to have that and soon after Ultimate soldier and Forces continued to thrill me with vehicles.
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