There you were waiting for a bus or train that never comes and the next thing you know someone has rudely cut your head off and turned you into a terrifying Mixtec South American warrior queen …
More gruesome than the Sunday papers! Read all about it in our step by step guide with pictures at my sister blog: https://poundstoreplasticwarriors.wordpress.com/2020/11/29/im-going-to-make-you-into-a-princess-cosmetic-surgery-for-plastic-soldiers/
Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN 29 November 2020
Finally a dry warm enough day for spray varnishing in glossy toy soldier style these fabulously colourful Chintoys 54mm plastic Mixtec and Zapotec figures.
Individual pictures and conversions photographed on my Pound Store Plastic Warriors blog:
Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN 27/28 November 2020
Some super cheap wargaming and scrap modelling using an old roll on deodorant – a handy ‘how to’ guide posted or crossposted from my Pound Store Plastic Warriors blog by Mark Man of TIN
Crossposted from my Pound Store Plastic Warriors blog by Mark Man of TIN
I made these home-cast 54mm parade figures using the traditional toy soldier moulds by Prince August back in 2005/7.
https://shop.princeaugust.ie/54mm-traditional-toy-soldiers-moulds/
The first group are ImagiNations armed Guild of Gelati or ice cream sellers on parade with their Neapolitan Ice cream based flag.
The second are armed traffic wardens on parade. No arguing with these over your parking fines with these fine well-armed fellows, keeping the local streets clear, safe and responsibly parked for democracy.
These are obviously based on the old fashioned British traffic wardens. I love the black uniform contrasting with the yellow stripes.
If you want them to be Italian / ImagiNations to match the Gelati, they would be called Vigili Urbani. I have no idea really what Italian traffic / parking Wardens look like other than those white gloved ones in 1980s Cornetto adverts and the 60s film The Italian Job. At least there is a spurious Italian link between parking enforcement and ice cream.
The Traffic Wardens do not yet have a standard or flag. Polite suggestions only please.
Very VBCW!
These were painted when I still used Humbrol Gloss enamel paints or Gloss Varnish over Humbrol enamels. I like this ‘Tintin’ old shiny toy soldier style painting still, although today I use Revell Aquacolor Acrylic gloss and gloss varnish. I have noticed that they need the final gloss spray Varnish as the flesh paint is matt, not gloss.
The two standing figures at ease (at the back, left) are not yet Traffic Wardens. They are inspired by 1860s British Customs Officers in Polperro based on a photograph by Lewis Harding of Polperro (taken from the book Lewis Harding Cornwall’s Pioneer Photographer by Phillip M. Correll, Polperro Heritage Press, 2000 polperro.press@polperro.org)
This came from the excellent small local museum of Smuggling at Polperro in Cornwall. Well worth a visit.
A few more random Prince August home cast figures from the same 2007 recently rediscovered box 
Mixed Patrol
Some of these figures were displayed to other’s bemusement at a local arts and crafts exhibition in my local village church / church hall about ten years ago as they scandalously had little or no boycraft or mancraft of any kind.
A blast from the home-cast past posted by Mark Man of TIN 14 November 2020.
Next post: back to the 54mm Spanish Armada 1588 / Aztecs and Mixtecs
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