This site is created for collectors of mainly composition vintage toy soldiers produced by great toy makers of the past: Elastolin, Hausser, Lineol, Durso, Kienel, Starlux, Leyla, Schusso, Armee, Trico, Duro, Durolin, NB, Triumph, GJ and many others.

Toy soldiers and real battles: March 2020

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Friday, March 27, 2020

๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟHave a nice weekend !

This WW1 postcard with toy soldiers was printed in England ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ . It says “Young England” ..


Fighting for the Stalingrad Tractor Plant

This diorama, representing fierce fighting at the  Stalingrad Tractor Plant during the Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943),  is displayed at T-34 Tank History Museum located near the town of Dmitrov (Russia).







Thursday, March 26, 2020

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง⚔️⚔️⚔️British Society of the model toy soldiers collectors (1939)

Members  of the British Model Soldier Club are demonstrating  hundreds of toy lead soldiers depicting troops from biblical, medieval and modern times. I noticed some soldiers and cannons made by Britains. ->







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Monday, March 23, 2020

Saturday, March 21, 2020

21st of March ..The Spring Offensives of 1918...

The WW1 Spring Offensives of 1918 were Germany’s last attempt to defeat the British and French armies on the Western Front. The German offensive code-named Michael opened on 21 March 1918. At 4:20am, 6,473 guns and 3,532 mortars began a devastating bombardment and five hours later the infantry advanced. The assault divisions had been allocated the best equipment, horses and fittest men and had completed four weeks’ special training in state-of-the-art infiltration tactics. Great care had been taken to achieve surprise. Tactically, results were impressive: 255 km² were overrun on the first day. By the time the offensive was ended on 5 April, the Germans had captured 3,100 km² and taken 90,000 prisoners. At these photos you can see the Schusso composite cavalrymen and the tinplate Mรคrklin tank produced in 30s.



Friday, March 20, 2020

King & Country: Anzacs at War ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ’ฅ⚔️⚔️⚔️

The Light Horse played a crucial role in the Battle of Beersheba on 31 October 1917. Here you can see the battle between the Australian mounted troops and Turkish Army in miniatures.






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Thursday, March 19, 2020

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡งMy World War II British Army entry control point

These World War II British Army soldiers were produced by different Belgian composition soldier makers of 40s/50s : Durso, Nazaire Beeusaert (NB) and Triumf. You can also see the "liberated" German minewerfer made by Tippco.



Wednesday, March 18, 2020

German Wehrmacht crawling soldiers

These German Wehrmacht crawling soldiers are made by Elastolin and Lineol in late 30s. I like their poses and expression...



Tuesday, March 17, 2020

German troops at the Battle of Kursk

This diorama, representing the Battle of Kursk campaign of 1943, is displayed at T-34 Tank History Museum located near the town of Dmitrov (Russia).