Crossposted by Mark Man of TIN 29th #FEMbruary 2020 – more photos of my finished #FEMbruary Girl Scout Patrol figure conversion challenge here at:
Happy Leap Day 2020. How have you spent your extra Leap Day?
As part of FEMbruary 2020, here’s an interesting article on Women Soldiers from a random edition of the Girl’s Own Paper that I once owned, dated November 4th 1893
G.O.P. was sister to the Boy’s Own Paper – I wonder what their boy’s take on an article about Woman Soldiers would be?
The opening page with herald – Taran Tara!
A Victorian take on women in the military:
Column 3
Article written by Laura Alex. Smith, Girl’s Own Paper November 4th 1893
The Dahomey Amazons featured in my FEMbruary blogpost of 2018: https://poundstoreplasticwarriors.wordpress.com/2018/03/10/more-dahomey-amazons/
Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN, 27 FEMbruary 2020
This is the GOP edition that this Women Soldiers article came from.
And for good measure, a fine military looking gent in GOP, December 3rd 1887:
I’ll be lighting a thoughtful candle at home tonight alongside many other scouts and guides, ex scouts and ex guides worldwide as it’s World Thinking Day, 22 February 2020 a day to celebrate Scouting and Guiding, being the birthdays of both Robert Baden Powell and Olave Baden Powell – Happy Birthday BP!
You helped make the world a Better Place.
Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN 22 February
Crossposted from my Scouting Wide Games for the Tabletop blog by Mark Man of TIN
https://tabletopscoutingwidegames.wordpress.com/2020/02/21/from-broken-limber-to-trek-cart/
and a reminder from Alan Gruber my Scouting Wide Games co-creator that today is Thinking Day 22 February each year, amid a glimpse of our new 60mm Girls Scouts in the making:
http://tradgardland.blogspot.com/2020/02/working-towards-woking-on-thinking-day.html
22 February was chosen as it was the birthday of Scouting and Guiding founder Lord Robert Baden-Powell and of Lady Olave Baden-Powell, his wife and World Chief Guide.
Other Scouts celebrate it as B.-P. Day or Founders’ Day. (Wikipedia source)
Blogposted by Mark Man of TIN, 21 / 22 February 2020
They’re here!
At last! They’re here at last! Huzzah! Or Ulla?
They’re all utterly gorgeous. You have to buy a copy or two!
Somewhere in paper soldier Valhalla, the late and much missed Stuart Asquith is smiling.
My favourite of all pages are the Civilians. As lively and full of character as Tintin or the work of Raymond Briggs like Ethel and Ernest. I hope Peter Dennis takes that as a complement!
But, crowding round my copy as I opened it, fresh from Helion thought the post, a gasp went up from the tiny men (and women) – “Where were the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts?”
In times of peril such as Martian or Franco / Prussian invasion, England expects everyone to step up and be counted – Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts too!
Hopefully in time Peter Dennis will amend this omission and put some Edwardian Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts on his Paperboys Little Wars website page, if only to keep an eye on the Prussians there!
https://m.facebook.com/pg/thePaperboysPage/posts/
https://peterspaperboys.com/collections/little-wars
Hint: Peter, there’s plenty of early scout uniform details, if you want on my Scouting Wide Games for the Tabletop website blog and Man of TIN blog:
Early ‘Paperboys’!? Some of my Edwardian scraps of Scouts (probably printed in Germany)
Making my Paperboys up might have to wait!
Probably until after I have to finish working with Alan ‘Tradgardland’ Gruber on our 54mm Scouting Wide Games and Snowball Fight offerings for the Little Wars Revisited 54mm gaming day.
This takes place on Saturday March 14th 2020 in Martian invaded Woking, no less! (still spaces available) see here for details –
https://littlewarsrevisited.boards.net/thread/404/lwr-forum-games-day-2020
Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN (not Boy of PAPER) 21 February 2020
Researching early Boy Scouts as part of my Wide Games gaming project, I came across these two original photographs for sale at a very reasonable price.
They are WW1 era c. 1915, Surrey based, possibly in the Ewell area (from a brief description in a photographic album) and the seller said they illustrate Scout drill and protecting a road (?!?) from a WW1 era album.
They appear to be guarding H S Philpots Tea Rooms (?) Surrey?
Whilst Scouts did valuable work for the war effort in WW1 and WW2, this young bunch of determined boys with staves might not stop the whole German Army.
What I liked about them was the mixture of home made uniforms, floppy brim hats and some of their lively expressions.
Their Scoutmaster and some of the Scouts reappear I think in other photos in my collection, the Scoutmaster in fetching light or white cape or trench coat.
These are a few of the photographs of early Scouting in its first decade* that I have collected as uniform research for the Scouting Wide Games for the Tabletop project (* Scouting for Boys was first published in sections in 1908). https://tabletopscoutingwidegames.wordpress.com
More of these Surrey photos and my early Scouting photographs published here:
https://tabletopscoutingwidegames.wordpress.com/2020/02/20/more-early-scouting-photos-from-ww1/
Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN 17 February 2020
Busy preparing simple rules sheets for the Scouting Wide Games project demo / play testing games for the 54mm Little Wars Revisited games day Saturday 14 March 2020. Still spaces available for games / participants … http://littlewarsrevisited.boards.net/thread/404/lwr-forum-games-day-2020
Marlene Lilli the famous singing star and “Forces Sweetheart” visits a lonely desert airstrip to cheer the lonely NAK NordAfrika Korps troops.
#FEMbruary 2020 – a chance to celebrate beleivable female gaming miniatures.
Marlene Lilli is a useful little platform figure from the Peco / Merit / Modelscene set 5201 Unpainted Army, Navy and Air Force personnel.
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/ShowFeature.aspx?id=107
5116 Army Personnel
https://peco-uk.com/collections/4mm-oo/products/army-personnel
Her visit to the troops was inspired by one of the latest song covers by one of my favourite bands Postmodern Jukebox. Previously featured on Man of TIN / Pound Store Plastic Warriors:
https://poundstoreplasticwarriors.wordpress.com/2019/03/15/thinking-outside-the-postmodern-paintbox/
This is its first German language cover, the 1980s Nena song 99Luftballons or ’99 Red Balloons’. This is covered in a 1940s / 50s jazz vibes style in German by singer Aly Ryan.
The 1980s original song was released in both German and English.
Blogposted by Mark Man of TIN, 11 FEMbruary 2020. Enjoy!
I can’t believe it’s #FEMbruary again – the annual challenge by Alex @ Lead Balloony blog to paint more female miniatures for your gaming hobby.
https://leadballoony.com/2020/02/03/leadballoonys-3rd-fembruary-challenge/
Marvin reminded me that we are already in FEMbruary with his challenge figures
https://suburbanmilitarism.wordpress.com/2020/02/05/court-appearances-fembruary-2020
My challenge this year is a limited one as I am preparing Scouting and Snowballing figures and rules for the Little Wars Revisited 54mm Games day at Woking with Alan Gruber (still spaces left to join in).
This year my challenge is four more Girl Scout figures to convert from 42mm Boy Scout figures to make up a full Daisy Patrol of eight figures.
https://tabletopscoutingwidegames.wordpress.com
The figures are Little Britons / STS Shiny Toy Soldiers LBB30 Boy Scout sold through Spencer Smith Miniatures.
Previously on Man of TIN blog in #FEMbruary
#FEMBruary 2019 Bad Squiddo 28mm Land Girls and Soviet Women – https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/17/huzzah-for-boycraft-flower-show-craft-success/
https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/the-unwomanly-face-of-war-book-review/
#FEMbruary 2018 – More Bad Squiddo land girls and other female figures
https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/18/fembruary-2018-progress-so-far/
Blogposted by Mark Man of TIN 6 FEMbruary 2020
These were Christmas gifts, these “Made of Wood” craft products from a local craft store – in the varied shapes of a lighthouse, wooden pine trees and Christmas decoration houses.
The label suggests that they are made from a very fast growing timber called the Paulownia tree, widely farmed and forested in China / East Asia and now across America as the ‘new balsa’ because of its lightness and valued for its attractive grain.
A light green wash or woodstain should bring out best features of these toy like pine trees.
There are some fantastic wooden buildings in this St Nazaire raid game that give an idea of how to make your own or use wooden buildings like these:
https://gridbasedwargaming.blogspot.com/2020/01/st-nazaire-raid-game-report.html
Some handy crafty pieces and ideas for future games.
Blog update from Lockdown April May 2020:
St. Nazaire raid inspiration went back a century or two – Lighthouse and houses now completed (April / May 2020) into part of a port for 15mm pirate raids.
https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/28/making-a-martello-tower-from-scrap-fort-crumble/
Forest trees undercoated for Close Wars Forest Skirmishes
Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN, 1 February 2020 / 15 May 2020 update.
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