Joshoin Temple Devoted To The Russo-Japanese War

This is a temple located in the mountains on the east side of Okabe-shuku. The main temple houses 223 wooden statues of soldiers and sailors built to memorialize the heroes who died during the Russo-Japanese War (Feb 8, 1904 – Sep 5, 1905) from this area and is also known as the "Hyotai Temple". Wooden statues were created in the Meiji era based on photographs of the died heroes, and their facial expressions and costumes are completely different. Photos are sourced from Tokyo Fox.

 

Playmobil Riot Police forces

Riot police forces in the city of Playmobil. An illegal demonstration erupts in the city of Playmobil and the riot police team quickly moves in to disperse the crowd.

I found also this interesting Playmobil stopmotion video on Youtube:

One year ago at Bastogne...

Some last year memories from Bastogne covered by snow :)....

Elastolin: wounded and medical personnel

Elastolin composition figures of wounded soldiers and medical personnnel (verwundete und sanitatspersonal).

Happy Friday ! 🇫🇷💥💥💥

British Royal guards 💂 💂 💂 🇬🇧 👑

This set of British Royal guards paper soldiers (Guardie Reali Inglesi) was produced by La Sorgente (Italy) in 1966.

Alpini 1914-1918 La Sorgente 🏔⚔️🇮🇹

The Alpini are the Italian Army's specialist mountain infantry. Part of the army's infantry corps, the speciality distinguished itself in combat during World War I. These Alpini paper soldiers were produced by La Sorgente (1966).

Belgian soldiers with flamethrowers

I think that the best soldiers with flamethrowers were produced by Belgian makers of composition toy soldiers - Durso and Solido. At these photos you can see 2 Durso flamethrowers and 1 made by Solido (the sitting figure). The barbed wire obstacles ("Spanish rider" or "Knife rest") are my own DIYs.

Saturday Night: Elastolin parade

Elastolin produced several versions of Reichswehr/Wehrmacht composition soldiers standing at attention (stillgestanden). These musicians and the flag bearer are quite rare figures today. The marching  marshal with sword is Werner von Blomberg. 

Happy Friday !

Lineol MG Figuren - service of machine-gun 💥💥💥💥

Lineol's product line of MG figures was not very rich in comparison with the similar Elastolin's one. But Lineol MG figures are still very interesting collectable items.

How to display vintage military toys ?

Vintage military toys can be great complements to a display of authentic relics such as this WWI-era Marklin toy submarine and a 1930s Elastolin toy of Admiral Raeder displayed with a WWII German Navy dagger.

Please see the full article about military toys collecting  here.

Elastolin Wehrmacht cavalrymen 🐴🐴🐴🐴

These Elastolin Wehrmacht cavalrymen are quite common and well preserved till our days. It is also strange that this common figure is not presented in any Elastolin catalogues as far as I am aware. In 30s similar composition cavalry figures were also produced by other German toy soldiers companies: Schusso, Strola and Leyla.

Elastolin : Sanitary group with doctor 🩸🩺🏥

Doctor standing, bandaging wounded soldier . Elastolin (657/1) : 1933 - 1941.

Eskader - Modell-Katalog 1940

Eskader - Modell-Katalog 1940 . This Swedish catalog contains models of airplanes and ships. You can also find Wiking Wehrmacht models ( (Scale 1:200). 

The catalog is located here ( 32 pages): 

Elastolin: Swiss Pioneers and MG figures

Elastolin combat troops included "Pioniere" ("combat engineer and construction troops") [series 662/-] and MG figures carrying tinplate machine guns ( "Infanterie") [series 600/-]. The presented figures were produced in the end of 30s for the Swiss market.

Haselbach’s tin figures

J.C. Haselbach of Berlin (1848–1900) was a plrolific maker of 40-50 mm tin figures. He entrusted the engraver Wildt from 1848–55 with the care of a large number of his moulds, reputedly between 5,000 and 6,000. Of particular appeal was the parade of Frederick the Great, displaying the most popular units of that army. He also made European soldiers, Thirty Years’ War and the Crusades, battles in India and Mexico, the Battle of Woerth-sur-Sauer (Franco-Prussian War) and the Crimean War.

 This tin knight (H:12 cm) with movable arms and visor was probably produced by Haselbach around 1860/80. 

Lineol artillery - Swiss army

In 30s, Lineol produced end exported a lot of composition soldiers of foreign armies. This artillery crew set was produced for the Swiss market. The tinplate haubitze is also made by Lineol. Achtung.. Feuer!