54mm toy soldiers – Man of Tin blog

Happy New Year 2020 from Man of TIN

Surprise Christmas gift, a Timpo style US lead field telephone man and ‘Tommy’ cover.

“Hello? Hello?”

It’s 1st January 2020 now in the Blog date list and many best wishes to all my fellow bloggers and readers for the coming New Year and a new decade, the Twenty Twenties!

I wonder how different the world and the hobby will be in ten years time at the start of the Twenty Thirties?

Several hours in and not broken any 2020 gaming irresolutions yet:

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/2020-man-of-tin-new-gaming-years-irresolutions/

“Roger, Over and Out!”

Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN on 1st January 2020, happy new decade!

BMC Plastic Army Women figures project Kickstarter Now Live

I have backed my first Kickstarter for a bag of these new BMC 54mm Plastic Army Women figures next Christmas!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bmctoys/plastic-army-women

https://poundstoreplasticwarriors.wordpress.com/2019/11/14/plastic-army-women-kickstarter-now-live/

You can read more about the project so far at previous blog posts such as https://poundstoreplasticwarriors.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/bmc-toys-plastic-army-women-update-5/

Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN 14 November 2019

More Prince August 54mm home cast sculpts #3

More of the possible Prince August proposed 54mm alternative heads for new 54mm home cast figures – US Infantry pre/ post 1902.

Good to see that people have contributed suggestions back to Prince August including Anthony Jopson and also Ian Dury (hello Ian!) of the Peter Laing Collectors circle (on MeWe) and the Continental Wars Society.

More sculpts can be seen at https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2019/10/02/prince-august-new-54mm-toy-soldier-sculpts-part-2/

Any suggestions for new heads to extend this range? Contact can be made via the Prince August website info@princeaugust.ie or contact page.

Portuguese infantry? Ladybird Leaders: Soldiers

Or Preben Kannik, Military Uniforms of the World, eve of WW1 plates

Blog posted by Mark, Man of TIN 4 October 2019.

New Prince August 54mm Homecast Toy Soldiers Planned

Exciting news from Prince August e-newsletter is the range of new 54mm homecast toy soldiers to add to their existing successful homecast range https://shop.princeaugust.ie/54mm-traditional-toy-soldiers-moulds/

These are still in development and feedback is sought on heads and nations represented. The newsletter comes from info@princeaugust.ie or there is a comment form on their website.

Why not sign up for the newsletter which has details of promotions, discounts, sales and new moulds?

Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN, 14 September 2019.

BMC Plastic Army Women Project Update September 2019

Crossposted from my Pound Store Plastic Warriors blog:

https://poundstoreplasticwarriors.wordpress.com/2019/09/09/bmc-plastic-army-women-update-no-3-september-2019/

Little Wars Revisited 16th March 2019 54mm Gaming Day

March 16th 2019 – Little Wars Revisited 54mm Games Day, Woking.

http://littlewarsrevisited.boards.net/thread/172/lwr-forum-2019-games-day?page=1

http://mikelewis.info/littlewars/?p=642

Some good looking games shown on people’s blogs last year – You can see pics of 2018 at Brian Carrick’s blog:

http://toysoldiercollecting.blogspot.com/2018/03/little-wars-revisited-54mm-in-woking.html

and at

https://wargaminggallimaufry.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-little-wars-revisited-54mm-day-in.html

Not sure if I will make it along but Mike Lewis the organiser mentioned promoting the event to 54mm gamers via our blogs. So here goes …

Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN on 4 January 2019

Man of TIN Advent Calendar Day 22 – A Few 1930s toy soldier Hugar Buildings

Interesting pre-war 54mm scenery (battle boards) from Hugar – rare and expensive!

A book I am looking forward to as a gift at Christmas is The Illustrated History of Hugar published in Hardcover by Smart Media in 2014 by Paul Brookes. Available through Amazon. Perfect for a 54mm old Toy Soldier gamer …