A few more Toy Soldier orientated gifts this Christmas, all pretty ephemeral.
Attractive sweet packaging tin and a chocolate lolly from Marks and Spencers. Interesting ImagiNations uniform, part circus band, part Danish Hans Christian Anderson and part Napoleonic.
Some of my Christmas gifts arrived wrapped in Toy Soldier wrapping paper. This Christmas there were quite a few Toy Soldier decorations around in the shops, which mostly seemed to be the Nutcracker Russian ballet style soldier figures, big and small (2018).
I kept parts of these sheets for my scrapbook but also kept several other sections in case I want to knock up or rather glue up some cardboard Russian Nutcracker soldier figures.
https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/23/nutcracker-toy-soldiers/
Blogposted by Mark Man of TIN on 30th December 2018 – Twixmas is nearly over.
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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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You would not have the rear section of the paper soldier to paste.
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Good point – why didn’t the designer think of helpful things like that?
I would need to paste the same figure back to back, on rectangle card to avoid the Assymetry problems of cutting out close to the shape.
Failing this, I have the smaller silicon cake dec moulds shown in the 2017 Nutcracker post to make some Smaller polymer clay Fimo versions. This is more likely to be a nearing next Christmas project. Or the Christmas after that …
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