May 25th is my Blogaversary, the 6th anniversary of my first Man of TIN blog post.
Crossposted by Mark Man of TIN
Image source: Marcia Chatelain, South Side Girls.
Happy 6th Blogaversary Man Of TIN Blog 25th May 2022 finds me DMZ Demilitarised
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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 ... View all posts by 26soldiersoftin
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Congratulations! Just got past my first Blogaversary myself! Here’s to many more.
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Congratulations to you too on your first Blogaversary! Hear hear to many more …
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Just spotted the image from the Schomburg Collection, which we also have at my branch – a lot of interesting period sources on black history. There are even a few on the African colonial period, including From Capetown to Cairo and Boer Fight For Freedom. (I suspect that last is simply for the racist subtext, though it does start with a history of the Boer culture and Trek.)
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I’m glad I didn’t have to search through the whole photo collection of the Schomburg collection for 8mages of Black Camp Fire Girls. This one photo is enough for me for figure painting.
The early Scouting and any colonial era texts have to be read today with an understanding that this is what was thought at the time.
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