Flip through the Poundland Crafty Beggars video to number 3 of 5 where you will find …
Sacriledge! Melting Poundland’s finest pound store plastic warriors in the oven to make a Fathers Day Gift toy soldier bowl.
NOOOO!!!! Don’t do this!
Just give your gaffer, your father or other male relative the box or bag of unmelted toy soldiers instead! Paint them up a bit for him. Offer him a game with them. He will be much happier with this.
Hello I'm Mark Mr MIN, Man of TIN. Based in S.W. Britain, I'm a lifelong collector of "tiny men" and old toy soldiers, whether tin, lead or childhood vintage 1960s and 1970s plastic figures.
I randomly collect all scales and periods and "imagi-nations" as well as lead civilians, farm and zoo animals. I enjoy the paint possibilities of cheap poundstore plastic figures as much as the patina of vintage metal figures.
Befuddled by the maths of complex boardgames and wargames, I prefer the small scale skirmish simplicity of very early Donald Featherstone rules.
To relax, I usually play solo games, often using hex boards. Gaming takes second place to making or convert my own gaming figures from polymer clay (Fimo), home-cast metal figures of many scales or plastic paint conversions. I also collect and game with vintage Peter Laing 15mm metal figures, wishing like many others that I had bought more in the 1980s ...
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…And then I awoke and found that it had all just been a bad dream! Shame on you Crafty Beggars.
As if the moderate oven wasn’t bad enough, It was the snipping of the last few figures in half and glueing them on that was the final straw … begone Lady Giants!
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…And then I awoke and found that it had all just been a bad dream! Shame on you Crafty Beggars.
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As if the moderate oven wasn’t bad enough, It was the snipping of the last few figures in half and glueing them on that was the final straw … begone Lady Giants!
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