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.
Tag: Girl Scouts
Shiny New Wide Game Recruits for the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Guides and Camp Fire Girls
More Spencer Smith Miniatures 42mm Shiny Toy Soldiers Little Britons range LBB30 Boy Scout figures for conversion – and some unusual uniform research.
Part of my ongoing DMZ Demilitarised Tabletop Gaming project.
Crossposted from my Scouting Wide Games for the Tabletop blog
Blog cross posted by Mark Man Of TIN, May Day 1st May 2022
110 years of the Girl Scouts Of America
Read more at: https://tabletopscoutingwidegames.wordpress.com/2022/03/12/110-years-of-the-girl-scouts-of-america/
Another DMZ demilitarised post:
https://tabletopscoutingwidegames.wordpress.com
Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN, 1970s Boy Scout (Bronze Arrow) retired, 12 March 2022
DMZ Post No. 5 Tintin, Totor the Boy Scout and Scouting Wide Games figures
Two recent new posts over on my Scouting Wide Games for the Tabletop blog
Tintin the Boy Detective and his younger brother / predecessor Totor the Boy Scout … https://tabletopscoutingwidegames.wordpress.com/2022/02/19/tintin-totor-and-the-belgian-boy-scout-cartoonist-herge/
Scouting figures back out on the tabletop ready for Wide Games and Snowball fights.
The Scouting Wide Games and snowball fight rules pages:
https://tabletopscoutingwidegames.wordpress.com
The original DMZ ‘demilitarised’ post – https://manoftinblogtwo.wordpress.com/2022/02/24/some-more-peaceful-or-non-lethal-tabletop-strategy-games/
Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN, 5th March 2022
Some more peaceful Tabletop Strategy Games
A quiet shift or reaction on the Tabletop and Painting Table to the disquieting events in Eastern Europe:
Snowball fights, Scouting Wide Games, Splafiti with Toy Boarders …
Blogposted by Mark Man of TIN 25 FEMbruary, 2022
12 March 1912 – Juliette Daisy Gordon Low forms the Girl Scouts of America
Celebrate an amazing woman Juliette ‘Daisy’ Gordon Low (1860-1927) and the Girl Scouts of America that she founded on this day in Savannah, Georgia, 12th March 1912
Crossposted from our ongoing Tabletop Scouting Wide Games (and Snowball Fights) Project blog. This was set up by me (Mark Man of TIN) and Alan (Duchy of Tradgardland) Gruber before the Woking Little Wars Revisited Games Day 54mm last March 2020:
Crossposted by Mark Man of TIN, March 12th 2021.
#FEMbruary 2020 Girl Scout Patrol Challenge completed on Leap Day
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?
Street Find Frankensteined Girl Scout
Another broken figure, a street find, restored to gaming life – read and see more about a cheap pound store figure dismembered to make a Girl Scout at:
Blog posted by Dr.Mark Franken-ManofTIN 23 October 2019, a week too early for Halloween.
Full Snow Forts: Scouting Wide Games report write up
Snowball fight to defend the Snow Fort! Boy Scouts vs. Girl Scouts!
Fast play Scouting Wide Games scenario for the tabletop. Read the full write up and play testing notes at:
Cross posted by Mark Man of TIN, 11/12 October 2019
More Girl Scout Conversions
A couple of broken metal figures have found a brand new life as Girl Scouts.
These conversions fit well with my slow reading ‘research’ for my Scout Wide Games tabletop project, poring through the earliest Scouting for Boys books and Girl Scout equivalent, How Girls Can Help the Empire: The Handbook for Girl Guides.
I was delighted to pick up an early original copy of this Guides book c.1912 or pre-WW1 version on EBay, much cheaper than the paperback reprint! Other originals were £100 or more! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Girls_Can_Help_to_Build_Up_the_Empire
The Victorian or Edwardian sailor suited boy might have come from the ‘bits and bobs’ box at Tradition of London (their old Shepherd Market shop). He had broken off at the ankles.
The archer was a small broken gilt figure minus its head.
The sailor boy was fixed by drilling holes in both feet and ankles with a fine pin vice or hand drill. Small pins of wire joined body and feet together, secured with superglue.
Something about that cheeky face said that this could be a Girl Scout recruit, rather than an Edwardian Boy Scout. I quickly made a tissue paper skirt fixed with clear PVA glue.
I was quite curious to see how these figure conversions would be enhanced (or not) by paint. I wanted an old-fashioned toy soldier look to the faces, along with a final spray of gloss varnish.
And the scout mistress or archer? He started life as a man, then when I came across him, he had no head. A quick rummage in the spares box found a spare pound store figure about the right size. Off with his head!
I cannot find a manufacturer for either figure. It looks on the original gilt figure as if one hand is carrying an arrow. This fine detail may need to be added.
Archery was certainly recommended as a sport for Guides by Robert Baden-Powell and his sister Agnes, who adapted her brother’s 1908 hand book Scouting for Boys into the 1912 handbook, How Girls Can Help To Build Up The Empire: The Handbook For Girl Guides. The ‘Girl Guiding’ handbook replaced this first book in 1918.
The Baden-Powells also recommended rifle shooting. Both boy and girl scouts could attain a Marksman badge for rifle shooting. There was also a section on self defence (jujitsu) as you never knew what you might encounter as a young woman at home or in the colonies on the frontiers of the Empire! Tigers, mad dogs, brigands, insurgents?
Research is slow but enjoyable, being a comparitive reading of this first 1912 Girl Scout or Guide handbook, alongside its predecessor Scouting For Boys. The sections are mixed up and in a different order. It is interesting to note what is kept in and suitable for guides, what is substituted as specifically for girls.
For instance, Baden Powell mentions in Scouting for Boys in a section on marksmanship: “The Boers are all good shots, and so are the Swiss. In both countries, the boys begin learning marksmanship at an early age by using crossbows…”, something suggested to Boy Scouts but not to Girl Scouts or Guides.
Being an accomplished marksman, after the lessons of the Boer War, was also seen by Baden Powell as a patriotic duty for men (‘citizen soldiers’) and good for home defence.
There is no obvious suggestion in either book that women should be armed ‘citizen soldiers’ in Britain, only in the frontiers of Empire for self defence of property and family.
Certain of the original Wide Games scenarios are included for girls; the book often mentions to save space ‘as in Scouting’, so the 1912 Guides book and the 1908 original Scouting book are designed to read together.
Blog posted by Mark, Man of TIN 9th July 2019.
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