Toy Soldiers

[Thundershot]

Hi all,
Been spending some quality time dusting (& playing with ) my toy soldiers

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Most of these are from them weekly publication series that start for £1.99 & then run for 100 + issues @ £7.99 each...needless to say I've never paid full price & have got 'em cheap from toy fair, boot sales & military vehicle shows for very little

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Some close-ups for any one who's (hopefully) interested...

One for Chopper, Australian S.A.S.

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Russian Marine Sniper

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Gurkha

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The one standing to attention reminds me of an old photo of Dad during national service.

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M.P.

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Phantom

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L.A.P.D S.W.A.T

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German & Italian mountain Troops, Gulf War Tornado in background.

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Cheers for viewing
T'Shot

[Red Laser]

Good quality I got the Napoleonic Wars magazine with soldiers in which got cancelled. I don't remember these ones when did they come out?

[paul463]

Lovely! I'm in to these too. Your collection looks great.

[Thundershot]

Thanks Paul, they are superb collector/toy soldiers..Andy I'm not shure about the ones with the ground effect stands,

Royal Marines Commando

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I've never seen them advertised or seen a magazine in the shops, but they turn up a lot @ shows & toy fairs for very little money, & are 1;35 (ish) scale..the ones with the brown stands..

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are from the Del Prado Men @ Wars series, & are larger more like 1:32nd scale, just like the Napoleonic ones you collect..(do you have photo's by any chance?)

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The smaller scale ones seem to be of contemporary subjects like these U.S. Special Forces

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& came with a tag "Front line Figures"...the nice thing about them is the fact they have the names of the uniforms & country printed on the bottom of the stand, apart from that I can't tell you any thing about them.

They seem to have a lot of U.K. subjects like this S.A.S guy in desert fatigues

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[Red Laser]

Actually no sorry I think those soldiers are at my parents house there were only 5 different ones done by Del Prado.