News, Views etc . . . General Roundup

Obit's
I don't often stray into gaming territory, as it's really a different bough rather than another branch of the hobby, but this guy was clearly loved and respected within the industry and too young, RIP

Stewart Gilray

Another Toy Soldier Collector (ad' pop-ups)

Mark Francis Gross

 

TableTop Games Listicle

As simplistic and - no doubt - as controversial as any other listicle, but with some useful side-links

Mudlarking

Well, it's a figure!

Refighting the Punic Wars

Nice image of antiqued Greeks

Warhammer

Nottingham Mafia!

 

 

Nostalgia

I had to refresh after clicking the cross-button on the pop-up - old Dundee toy stores!

 

Memories of a Rugby toy shop

 

And another in Rushden

Miniatures

I cant's remember if I've posted this before, but there's tons and while Prieser and Noch figures are to the fore, he uses all sorts of scales and figures, and of all the sites with this type of stuff, Tatsuya Tanaka's is about the best.

ACW

Nice set-up in Pennsylvania

Beautiful Brass

Vizagapatam Toy Soldiers

News, Views Etc . . . Links - My Modern Met

We may have had one or two of these before, but I've been putting them to one side since the start of the first lock-down, or the last link-post . . . whichever came last!

Babbacombe Model Village - Invasions

 

Hank Cheng - Dioramas

MMM - Art Toys

Anonymouse - Mini-mice World!

MMM - Humango Snow Globe

Gregory Grozos - Pocket Watches

Josua Smith - Urban Architecture

Josua Smith - Exhibition Curation (various artists)

Drew Leshko - Urban Architecture

Erin Sullivan - Preiser Again

Peeowhy Hymoaad - More Preiser

Tatsuya Tanaka - Preiser goes Covid!

Tatsuya Tanka - Star Wars

Gillian Corcoran - Lost Forest Wearable Miniatures

Andy Acres - Shadow Box Dioramas

Salavat Fidai - Carved Pencils

Salavat Fidai - GoT Pencils

Takanori Aiba - Fantasy Models

MMM - Six of the Above (or previously seen here) Artists with Video Links

News, Views Etc . . . A Few Links;

A Connecticut estate-auction is coming up on-line, with 'Lead Toy Soldiers' and 'Metal Toys & Figurines' in the descriptive blurb it may be worth  a looksee?

https://patch.com/connecticut/milford/classifieds/for-sale/185651/milford-connecticut-online-estate-auction

While Vivian Lord made the evening news on CBS and it looks like the 'Army Gals' will be out for Christmas, but what will be generally available as true toys, and what's only available as go-fund-me pre-order specials isn't made clear? She was briefly on Reddit too, but the post was removed?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christmas-how-a-7-year-old-won-the-battle-to-make-female-toy-soldiers/

I didn't realise Rahway was PSTSM! Oh well; he'll prove useful! In the meantime:

https://www.facebook.com/events/512899045951704/

And riveting Rosie's on Motherly, I wonder if Rahway will find a different link to the same story for this one!

https://www.mother.ly/news/how-a-7-year-old-girl-inspired-this-toy-company-to-make-female-army-soldier-toys

 

OTS's autumn number is now available in the Tradition shop

https://www.traditionoflondonshop.com/product_info.php?products_id=17149

Coverage of Tarn-et-Garonne: the Toy Museum of Montauban

https://theblend.ie/tarn-et-garonne-the-toy-museum-of-montauban-is-tf1s-christmas-favorite/

JFK and the Black Watch - 1963

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/nostalgia/1745173/jfk-and-the-black-watch-battalions-lasting-bond-with-president-john-f-kennedy/

This Is Colossal

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/simon-laveuve-miniatures/

and

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/09/miniature-calendar/ (more at the end of the article - Preiser again!)

News, Views Etc...Usual Round-up

There is a seemingly never-ending stream of these now, but I never tire of them and they all give you that 'I wish I'd thought of that first' moment!

Tanaka Tatsuya - playing with food



Soldiers in Siloth, a museum of Toy Soldiers is mounting a WWI exhibition, their own website isn't as clear as the press release, so here's the press release!

Cumbria Crack (not sure that's how you spell it Cumbria?)



Nice small-scale dioramas in Belarus

Minsk Museum



And finally...

Giant Toy Soldiers