To me, when Aero-Art first marched out its St. Petersburg Collection of military miniatures from Russia, 16 years ago, that became a turning point in the “Toy Soldier” hobby. At that time, their finely painted and highly animated military miniature historical jewels broke ranks with the stiff-robust traditional toy soldiers of the day. The St. [...]
Battle Scene Productions is celebrating their first anniversary on the Internet with fantastic giveaways.
All you have to do is go to their web site at, battlesceneproductions.net and sign their mailing list and you are entered into every give-a-way that they have. Not a bad deal for just signing their mailing list. The prizes which they [...]
The book Compositon Western Figures from Germany vol. 1, by Thomas Finck is available now!
This very handsome hardcover book measures 24×23cm, runs 324 pages, with more than 1000 color pictures and 100 black and white pictures.
It covers firms such as Bayer, Beck, Blechschmidt, Hausser/Elastolin, Fischer, Fröha, Grundig, Holze and includes information on their sculpters, production [...]
Sueezed into over 1,200 lots of Antique and Collectible toys to be auctioned this coming Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 17th., by SeriousToyz, are two pages devoted to Vintage G.I. Joes and Action Figures. The G.I. Joe “German Storm Trooper” in our picture already has a bid of $195.
Here’s a list and descriptions, [...]
Toy soldiers go to war in this King & Country, Toy Soldier TV, video.
Spring and summer months are traditionally slow months for us toy soldier collectors living in the Northern Hemisphere.
The amount of toy soldier shows tapers off, and little in the way of new toy soldiers are released.
But in the Southern Hemisphere, as fall gives way to winter, one toy soldier maker, Beau-Geste in Argentina, [...]
British Model train maker HORNBY has bought the toy car company CORGI for £7.5 million British Pounds (Approximately $15 million U.S. Dollars).
Corgi Toys was launched in 1956 as a new range of die cast toy model cars by Mettoy Playcraft LTD, the toy car company founded in 1936. These new toy cars were soon a [...]
