Wendal aluminium marching bandsman – Salvation Army or Circus uniforms. British made.
As well as March being Women’s History Month (a continuation of FEMbruary), it is an excuse for painting, modelling or photographing more of my MARCHing toy soldier figures and MARCHing bands.
I love a marching figure and given the choice, I would rather have a set of marching toy soldiers than the more realistic modern multiple poses, just for that classic toy soldier look.
Here’s one I made earlier … they look great on parade or the battlefield. Prince August 54mm home cast metal Traditional Toy Soldier set. Cast your chosen arms, head and body, assemble, paint and you have your own home made figure. Still magical.
So here are a few of my marching figures for this MARCH.
Two Britain’s Scottish marching troops with the moving arm still attached. Left, Highland Light Infantry from set 213 (prewar manufacture) and Right, The Royal Scots from set 212.
More will be MARCHing across this blog for a small parade on Donald Featherstone’s Centenary on 20 MARCH 2018.
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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6 thoughts on “#MARCH no. 1”
I agree with you Mark, marching toy soldiers are the classic look – you have pictured some lovely examples here.
Nice idea to have figures poised MARCHing to the rescue or on roads leaving the Wild action boys to Skirmish or defend. I Like your new story figures in Gerolstein.
I like the single plastic action figures being of the Airfix generation – how else would Harry Pearson and friends play Airfix charades? – but always hankered after the traditional marching figures I usually only had as a band. The others looked wrong on parade.
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I agree with you Mark, marching toy soldiers are the classic look – you have pictured some lovely examples here.
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MARCH 2018 2019 2020 … Another long and lazy project to photograph and enjoy these marching figures in my eclectic collection.
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In my wargames I like to have marching regiments to place on roads and to function as reserve units arriving on the edge of the board.
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Nice idea to have figures poised MARCHing to the rescue or on roads leaving the Wild action boys to Skirmish or defend. I Like your new story figures in Gerolstein.
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Love Prince August figures. I have quite a few of their 25mm Waterloo figures around.
And I’m with you. Give me marching – or on parade – over those often spectacularly wild combat poses any day!
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I like the single plastic action figures being of the Airfix generation – how else would Harry Pearson and friends play Airfix charades? – but always hankered after the traditional marching figures I usually only had as a band. The others looked wrong on parade.
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