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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Friday, May 17, 2024

D is for Don't Forget The Best Toy Soldier Show On Earth!

It's the 39th year - ignoring the hiatus of SARS-Covid19  - of the Plastic Warrior magazine's toy soldier show tomorrow, and I know for a fact a couple of new table holders have sorted out piles of new to market stuff, and other people have sorted out equally good stuff, so there's going to be lots of stuff! If you're looking for toy soldier stuff, you'll want to be there, you need to be there!
 
The next Twicker's match is first of June, so we should be safe from rugger-bugger's and there'll be plenty of parking. Gareth reported a rail replacement bus service to Whitton -
 
Replacement rail bus, Saturday.
If travelling on the train from London there is a bus service
from Feltham to Whitton

So worth setting out a bit earlier if that was your intended mode of ingress! All other details are on Brian Carrick's page - 


To get us in the mood, here's a few shots I found languishing in a folder in Picasa, taken at the 2018 show.
 
Vehicles.

 
Timpo and early British bits.

Gun-line!


Steve Weston's tables, he'd started packing-up.
I bought the chariot . . . the next year!

Elastolin fort and their 40mm figures.

Britains Herald & Deetail
 
Jean stagecoach and two East German sets
(Georg Blechschmidt KG or Friedhold Fischer KG,
I think it's GB figures in FF boxes?)
 
Hope you make it, I'll be there, and I shouldn't be, far too much, more serious stuff happening in real life, right now, but you can't keep an addict down!

5 comments:

FitzjamesHorse said...

I hope you have a good day out.
I have been at about six PW Shows but none in the last 15 or so years.

John

Hugh Walter said...

Cheers, I hope to John, I hope to. It's well worth getting to if you can manage it sometime, the last couple of years it's seemed better than ever!

H

EY said...

Hope you will be able to share some pics of the show!

Hugh Walter said...

I didn't take any general shots, EY, too busy! And while there will be the usual show-reports on the plunder-pile, it may not be for a few weeks, as I have too much going on at the moment!

H

Hugh Walter said...

EY - Steve Vickers has posted some good shots on the 'Friends who like Plastic Warrior' Facebook group, which is easy to join!

H