Skip to main content

More summer travels and some Old School discoveries

I'm back again from a another extended trip, this time it was for a couple of weeks in a remote part of northern Canada.  Lots of rock, bears, bugs, mountains and tricky seas.  Luckily for me, the latter were calm on the day this photo was taken.



On the way back home I visited my grandparent's old home in Nova Scotia, where I used to spend my summers as a boy.  I remembered to look into a particular closet which used to be an Aladdin's cave of vintage toys.  There, I found packed away in a box some familiar treasures, some of my uncle's old tin soldiers.  They were all well-used and well-loved by him, my brothers and I!  They were probably the first toy soldiers I ever saw or played with.  Some were a bit damaged (sad to say now but somehow it is hard to regret) from all that enthusiastic use but I took some pictures of those veterans which are still in good shape.  No doubt some of you will recognize them...




The soldiers were fairly large, about 3 1/2 inches or so tall.   I left them behind, but maybe I should have recruited them to defend Syldavia from an imminent Bordurian attack.  I am particularly fond of the motorcycle but the AA gunner looks like he means business!    

Comments

  1. Thanks for posting the images scenic and soldier related- both most interesting!
    Alan

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Leipzig Campaign : Battle of Olbernhau Pt. 2

It goes without saying that this blog has been stalled for some time while I have had my hands full with work and kids.  I have had the AAR for the Battle of Olbernhau (see previous post) mostly completed for some time, but it has been languishing forgotten in the limbo of the "drafts" file.  In the effort to re-start things in motion around here, the first order of business is to publish it!    Battle of Olberhau After Action Report  Prelude The town of Olberhnahu with forested hills to the east (rear).  The Allies enter the table from more or less this position moving from right to left, then turning sharply west (left) As outlined in the previous post ( here ), our scenario revolved a hypothetical encounter of the French IX Corps and the Allied Army of Bohemia just west of the town of Olbernhau, southern Saxony, in August 1813.  The battle game is preceded by the approach of the town by Count Pahlen III’s Russian hussar division, moving in from the

First Despatch from Syldavia!

Welcome to Despatches From Syldavia! Will you join me for a Plate of Szlaszeck and a Glass of Szprädj? This blog relates the infamous history and dubious future goings-on of my own Imagi-nations wargames campaign involving an un-historical milieu of fictitious mid 18 th century nations set in southeastern Europe. I’ll keep the blog updated with reports when I have made progress in my project and when I have something (one hopes) moderately interesting to say. Life is quite busy, however, so I am afraid that my postings will probably come at an irregular pace. My project represents my return to the wargaming world after several years of inactivity, during which time I finished my PhD, landed a real job, got married and started a family. Now, with all that done (or is it because sleep is in short supply?), the desire to start painting and gaming projects came back to life. I started to build a SYW army and while doing some research on the WWW, I accidentally stumbled upon E

A Revised Map for Syldavia

Hi all, I have updated my map for Syldavia, fiddling with minor details like the direction of river courses, the location of national frontiers and changing some place names.   The most noticeable change is the presence of a hex grid, each hex is supposed to be 10km in diameter.  This particular change is a big help (obviously!) figuring out distances between places in real terms, such as numbers of days (or hours...) of travel between point A and point B. Syldavia is smaller than I thought! Jim