One of the more interesting things to appear on this blog, and not figures! Originally formed in 1909 to manufacture celluloid and other e...

Very much an unscheduled post, I have Pirates, Bull Fighters and French troops in the queue along with more link-stuff from the Wibbly Wobbl...

There is within the hobby an expression used by the dealers on the show circuit; "He was spotting my mistakes!", it refers to thos...

A harbinger of things to come... Now published a few posts above - a two part overview of the larger scale Pirate figure output both sides o...

Whom I presume are the importer/repackager of these French figures for the Italian market? This is the third set of these Italian Starlux se...

Similar to the cowboy shot the other day, but this time we do have all poses from both sets so; two photographs and a bit more blurb! Not mu...

A guest post tonight with thanks to Bernard Taylor for all images and the information behind them, it all goes back to 'stupid blog'...

Forgot to cover this when it came out the other week so quick review now. Since it went all colour on us - a couple of years ago now - it ha...

Just a quick one tonight, the photograph can tell you almost as much as I can, previously unknown to me these were at an antiques fair at Al...

I now have 75 followers and am on-target for my first 11,000 hit month after three consecutive 10,000+ months, so thanks again to all who vi...

You may well have realised I have a side-thing for tractors, and while I tend to call such things 'side collections', the horrible t...

Food for toy soldier thought; War as a game? It seems boundaries are getting blurred...

As you collect the Spanish 'Sobres' or 'Surprises' you realise that the companies (of whom Montaplex was only one - but the ...

Before the larger envelopes that are so familier to collectors of Montaplex , they produced single-model Sobres in two-colour printed paper ...

M0st of my Montaplex sets will appear on the Airfix blog as comparisons when I get that page properly loaded-up, so here are just a few vehi...