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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4 thoughts on “Man of TIN Blogvent Calendar Day 22: First Corps 28mm Boy Scouts VBCW figures”
I wonder if I could get Peter Dennis to do a page of paper Scouts… he has some rare and unusual subjects on his site that can’t be done in book form, and I know there are some civvies in his upcoming Little Wars book.
The first corps scouts are really lovely figures and fit in well with the Tintin esque figures they produce. I use mine as messengers in my Very British Civil War army in 28mm. The Peter Dennis potentiality is very interesting.
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Resisting 28mm …
One day 15mm and Airfix 20mm, 30 mm and 40 -42 mm, 54mm and flats shall return and rule the universe and 28mm will be an odd in-between size – Mwaha Ha Ha!
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I wonder if I could get Peter Dennis to do a page of paper Scouts… he has some rare and unusual subjects on his site that can’t be done in book form, and I know there are some civvies in his upcoming Little Wars book.
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I hope that he may do some for the forthcoming Little Wars book. I have some Scout illustrations from Edwardian games that I will soon feature.
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The first corps scouts are really lovely figures and fit in well with the Tintin esque figures they produce. I use mine as messengers in my Very British Civil War army in 28mm. The Peter Dennis potentiality is very interesting.
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Resisting 28mm …
One day 15mm and Airfix 20mm, 30 mm and 40 -42 mm, 54mm and flats shall return and rule the universe and 28mm will be an odd in-between size – Mwaha Ha Ha!
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