As well as EBay there are other maker and vintage listings out there, ranging from
the international Etsy with its often expensive ‘vintage’ toy soldier offerings and unusual international toy soldier offerings (great for window shopping)
to the more British based crafting site Folksy.
Here I spotted and bought this rather apt fridge magnet that home casters might enjoy.
https://folksy.com/items/7160996-I-Live-In-A-Madhouse-Magnet
Luckily I tore off the Folksy maker’s name from the invoice and stuck it roughly in the back, so I could find them again.
I thought it goes well with the contents of a recent mostly Schneider vintage metal mould casting session and some very cheap Pound Store conversion plastic soldier Boy Scouts.
Eagle eyed readers may spot two ‘half casts’ who were missing heads, so these colonial flats got a plastic flat head modern Fritz helmet from the Specia forces figures.
(Small) World Domination plans
It reminds me of a rough sketch outline I did for a finished postcard in a local art event in the anonymous Post Secret / Secret Squirrel confessions postcards project:
This postcard blog post from my first month of blogging here in 2016 with some thoughts on homecasting https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/
Blog posted by Mark, Man of TIN on 8 May 2021.
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