Back to Britains box-ticking with this post, these are still very common, the only problematical aspect is the pole arms which were polystyr...

Guards on Parade - 100 Piece Set ...only there aren't 100, there aren't even 100 pieces! 98 pieces - once de-sprued - make 112 piece...

Back to Dr Who Adventures Magazine and another freebie from HMA , mostly it's the 'same old same old', but there is a new shape...

Actually, apparently they weren't...very vicious that is. There was some new research a few years ago (probably a decade or more, the ...

So...blimey! One thousand posts active, bit of a landmark, certainly didn't think I'd get here, especially having so much still to c...

Something I totally missed at the time, which might explain why I only have the two examples, more likely though is that they are not that n...

As well as the '100-figure' carded sets (more on numbers when we get to the guards!) like the Wild West one we looked at last night,...

Which gets them top-billing in some lists, but doesn't stop them coming late to the blog! Very much a Picasa -clearing, desktop-tidyin...

When you are sorting all the non- Giant from your pile of mixed small-scale Hong Kong shite, these are easy to separate... Unmarked base...

I've been following developments over at Rob's shipyards with some fascination in the last few days, not least because the system i...

Not so much a lazy-post today as a close look at the minutiae of one small corner of the Toy Soldier universe, and it's nice sometimes t...

Naff expression, naff title - I know, but sometimes it's easy to find a title; sometimes it 'aint! I'm no Shakespeare! This is t...

Specifically for Ed. Berg, but also anyone looking to collect/having trouble with the various generations of Britains Deetail 'standard...

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 th...

Beginning at the end...or ending at the beginning (unless you're coming to this via 'next post' in a few months or years time, i...