Dutch Wars, anyone? Dutch landings at Sheerness? Redcoats with big floppy hats?
I already have 15mm Peter Laing ECW figures, so what should I do with these individual musket armed figures from the Warlord Games Epic Battles Pike and Shotte ECW box?
Can we extend their redcoat use into the Interregnum and Restoration through to the Dutch Wars?
How they started out …
See the first Redcoats to be finished at:
Crossposted from my Man Of TIN Blog Two, 3 June 2023
The last of this week’s the ‘people behind the classic uniform books’ type posts:
Liliane and Fred Funcken
Crossposted from my Man Of TIN Blog Two
https://manoftinblogtwo.wordpress.com/2023/05/31/when-tintin-met-fred-and-liliane-funcken/
RIP Tony Adams the late Commander Of the Woodscrew Miniature Army
https://thewoodscrewminiaturearmy.blogspot.com
Our thoughts are with his wife and family at this sad time.
Sadly here is a post all about my chats and exchanges with Tony, crossposted from my Man Of TIN Blog Two
https://manoftinblogtwo.wordpress.com/2023/05/25/rip-tony-adams-of-the-miniature-woodscrew-army/
I have built my first Sarissa MDF buildings from the Warlord Games Epic Battles Pike and Shotte Starter Set Push Of Pike
and I also remember their Peter Laing / John Mitchell equivalents from 40 to 50 years before.
Crossposted from my Man Of TIN Blog Two
Over the last few weeks I have been kitbashing 28mm WW2 figures from freebie magazine sprues into ImagiNations troops (thanks to Alan, David and others)
I have also been comparing them with suitable 28mm to 32 mm figures in my collection, along with some spare 30mm figures from the Mark’s Little Soldiers neo-retro Range (thanks Alan!)
Basically this is a round up or crosspost of links to this week’s posts from my Man of TIN Blog Two,
Italian WW2 Infantry changed into Scandi mountain troops
And to add to these fine fellows (above), I have kitbashed six more Marine Raiders in pith helmets
Along with some spare Officer figures from the new Mark’s Little Soldiers 30mm Range:
Amazing how varied 28mm Is in terms of size and stature, the same can be said of 30mm to 32mm including Pound Store Plastic Warriors for a cheap bulked out army.
Blog posted by Mark Man Of TIN, 16 May 2023
Peter Laing 15mm ECW metal figures compared to the new Warlord Games Epic Battles Pike and Shotte 13-15mm plastic figures.
See and read more on my blog here, crossposted 6 / 7 May 2023:
https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/in-a-garden-far-far-away/
Recently I have posted and focussed on outer space a bit more through the unlikely figure of the ‘father of modern wargaming’ Donald Featherstone and the wargaming grandfather and science fiction writer H.G. Wells
including Asimov’s preface to Little Wars
And featured these delightful SciFi Dorset castings through Imperial (!) Miniatures
Reposting the 2022 post and previous year list
Happy International Star Wars Day, also to be celebrated on 25 May as well …
Posted by Mark (Star) Man Of TIN 4 May 2023
Crossposted from my Man Of TIN Blog Two post,
In which I kitbash several different free 28mm sprues together to create my own small skirmish patrol group of Tintinesque ImagiNations Alpine Troops. Think WW1 era Italian Alpini merged with Austrian Gebirgsjäger.
More pictures at / crossposted from my Man Of TIN Blog Two,
Posted by Mark Man Of (Moun)TIN, 23 April 2023
This link to the recent Country Life article by Charles Harris includes pictures of Wells’ grandsons as youngsters playing with his collection came from the BMSS website
https://www.bmssonline.com/uploads/1/3/2/2/13228206/dec8.toy_soldiers.pdf
Country Life, www.countrylife.co.uk magazine of 8 December 2021 “We all fall down like toy soldiers” by Charles Harris. copyright Country Life Etc. Etc.
The article (above) ends with the writer’s nostalgia, their family memories and point of view, along with concerns about the toy soldier collectors of the future.
Before Alan Tradgardland Gruber mentions it, where has the BMSS wargaming section of yore gone?
Blog posted by Mark Man Of TIN, 16 April 2023
Man of Tin blog 