Sunday, 31 January 2010

Officer resting

Brilliantly unusual piece from abel.An officer taking a rest

Friday, 29 January 2010

meccano

i never knew that meccano did soldiers

FRENCH LINE BAND

This is on offer from Bedsteads on Ebay and is not much money. I'd make a bid on this if I were you!!!!

Thursday, 28 January 2010

WW1

Crescent. below hill
Hill converted to field artillery


Mignot French general above and here Crescent officer

Crescent again cutting the wire
some went for love of slaughter learning later   ezra pound
crescent wire layer. unusual brilliant piece

THE FAR WEST

Crescent
Hill
Unknown

BOXER Uprising

THe Boxer uprising began after Nationalist Chinese feeling started top realise that Capitalists from the West were strangleholding the country to a kind of ransom. Many nations were sent to quel the Chinese Boxers. Here above are some Indian troops who were sent to Chins. Do you know the maker?
Without the Japs the legations at Peking would have collapsed. It was Jap infantry that saved the day on many occasions according to eye witness accounts. Here is a Britains original plus unknown Jap infantry.These Japs may be by Acmee. Keep returning here as the article is not finished
These are by Bastion and are French Matelots .

Tuesday, 26 January 2010

boxes and unknowns

no idea on these . you?. machine gunner below might be Charbens

Saturday, 23 January 2010

BITS

ANYONE KNOW WHO PRODUCED THE SOLDIERS IN THE FIRST TWO PHOTOS?
TO ME THESE ARE WRONGLY PAINTED AND SHOULD BE JAP INFANTRY

NICE SET OF AMERICAN WW1 INF GOING FOR NOTHING ON EBAY NEARLY NOTHING

Wednesday, 20 January 2010

THE BEST SCULP


Taylor and Barrett first WW ,easily they had a better sculpturer than any one else.These are brilliant

Saturday, 16 January 2010

DETAILdetail


Three pieces on E.bay the first two are Britains the last is Noble. you can see well from the worn state of the Britains how well they were sculptured . If we look at the Noble we can understand how outpainters closed detail.Who were Noble bt the way?

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Mignot

Here are some Mignot Acw. These are nice because of their crudity