I put in a mention for the Wargaming Pastor’s work with these figures on the Death Zap blog
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Thanks Hugh for the mention and blog link – if you don’t know it, Small Scale World is a great, almost encyclopaedic reference source for plastic soldiers and all plastic rack toys including their pirate copies and packaging.
“Spaceman and colonials from the same blob”?
Surprising what you can do with some paint, scalpel, (wire and PVA and tissue paper) …
Hello I'm Mark Mr MIN, Man of TIN. Based in S.W. Britain, I'm a lifelong collector of "tiny men" and old toy soldiers, whether tin, lead or childhood vintage 1960s and 1970s plastic figures.
I randomly collect all scales and periods and "imagi-nations" as well as lead civilians, farm and zoo animals. I enjoy the paint possibilities of cheap poundstore plastic figures as much as the patina of vintage metal figures.
Befuddled by the maths of complex boardgames and wargames, I prefer the small scale skirmish simplicity of very early Donald Featherstone rules.
To relax, I usually play solo games, often using hex boards. Gaming takes second place to making or convert my own gaming figures from polymer clay (Fimo), home-cast metal figures of many scales or plastic paint conversions. I also collect and game with vintage Peter Laing 15mm metal figures, wishing like many others that I had bought more in the 1980s ...
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2 thoughts on “Spacemen, Colonials and the Small Scale World of Shelfies”
I’ll be watching that blog with a keen eye. And thanks for all the mentions, I think I should be paying you!
No fee required – good to find other people doing the same thing with the cheapest basic figures.
Facebook Super Cheap Wargaming group is very good for this, lots of fantasy and sci-fi terrain from scrap
The Small Scale World is an excellent blog or website, along with Barney’s Herald Toys website which has an archive of all their sold items.
Both sites are very good for ID of plastic figures and copies
https://poundstoreplasticwarriors.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/pound-store-colonial-skirmish-part-1/
Pound Store Plastic Warriors 
I’ll be watching that blog with a keen eye. And thanks for all the mentions, I think I should be paying you!
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No fee required – good to find other people doing the same thing with the cheapest basic figures.
Facebook Super Cheap Wargaming group is very good for this, lots of fantasy and sci-fi terrain from scrap
The Small Scale World is an excellent blog or website, along with Barney’s Herald Toys website which has an archive of all their sold items.
Both sites are very good for ID of plastic figures and copies
http://www.heraldtoysandmodels.co.uk/catalog/index.php?cPath=128
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