"Remember When – Toy Soldiers" Topic
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Tango01  | 16 Mar 2023 5:11 p.m. PST |
"Something I haven't witnessed for many a year – children playing with toy soldiers! I've seen a few older children, 13/14+ playing skirmish and war-games with them, and I've seen plenty more adults doing the same, but I haven't seen young children playing with soldiers as toys for an absolute age.
I think back to when I was a boy and the fun I used to have playing with little plastic soldiers, declaring war on anyone who would play with me. I can see how this simplest of things went on to influence my life – my love for all things military, especially planes, and the joy I got from playing these games put me on the track to join the Air Force, and eventually to write this blog…"
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| FusilierDan | 17 Mar 2023 3:54 a.m. PST |
Nice read. His journey was very similar to my own. |
| Tango01 | 17 Mar 2023 3:28 p.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed it my good friend… Armand |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 18 Mar 2023 12:23 p.m. PST |
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| steve dubgworth | 18 Mar 2023 1:16 p.m. PST |
My dad bought toy soldiers for me before i was born (and this is before the days of being able to identify the gender of the child). these were Lone Star figures and I still find the odd one in the garden when I did my mothers garden. I was allowed to buy two soldiers every week from my pocket money, this was at a wonderful stall in Doncaster market and were mainly Crescent and Johilco. The good stuff Britains swoppets was at a dedicated shop in the high street. One thing I did notice was all the soldiers I bought were painted I dont recall seeing any unpainted figures until much later when the cheap bagged figures came in from Hong Kong but I refused to buy those, then came Airfix 1/32. I did see the US had the unpainted as I saw them advertise at the back of Batman and Superman magazines in big boxes. |
| Tango01 | 18 Mar 2023 3:43 p.m. PST |
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 Sgt Slag | 29 Mar 2023 12:04 p.m. PST |
As an avid Army Men wargamer, I really enjoyed that blog. Posted a response to the owner. Thanks for sharing this, Tango01! Cheers! |
| Tango01 | 29 Mar 2023 3:55 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami…
Armand
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begins to think about terrain for Team Yankee.
