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Toy Soldier Collector Casting around Paul Stocker looks at the latest castings to arrive on the market

Casting around

Paul Stocker looks at the latest castings to arrive on the market
March 2012

Dorset Soldiers
Various new releases

Giles Brown was in the course of moving at the time of writing and his normally impressive output of new releases was temporarily interrupted so there were only a small number of new castings for me to feature.

Thanks to a collector providing figures from which he was able to produce moulds, Giles has added the Timpo West Point drum major and bass drummer to the West Point bandsman featured in issue 43. The expectation of these additions had Giles taking orders for West Point bands at the London show in December.

Giles was asked by a customer to produce a Timpo Guards bandsman and he’s now done that by removing the arms of a cymbal player so that other arms and instruments can be used. All these band figures have the chunkier look and feel that was characteristic of Timpo’s figures in the 1950s.

The bandsmen castings cost £4.10 each (£11 painted gloss) except the base drummer to which an extra
£1.90 needs to be added for the bass drum (£14 for the base drummer painted gloss).

There are also two new additions to Giles’ civilian castings. The first is a copy of the attractive horse that Britains used for light carts and their milk float. The horse casting is a two part kit and costs £7.20 (£19 painted gloss). The other civilian item is the Hilco railway guard to add to the Hilco figures for a railway station already in Giles lists. The casting costs £3.30 (£11 painted gloss). Apparently Hilco also sold him painted as a WWI medical officer so he could serve in that role as well.


Giles tells me that the mounted ‘Ivanhoe’ knight featured in issue 43 is proving popular with customers and he now has original figures from which to make moulds for the later version of the same figure with a moveable visor, the mounted knight with a moveable visor from Timpo’s ‘Knights of the Round Table’ set and also Timpo’s mounted crusader. The crusaders were originally intended to be sold alongside the ‘Ivanhoe’ knights but they were actually issued much later. Giles will produce these other knights if there is sufficient customer interest. Speaking entirely selfishly now, please show an interest.


Horse & guard castings, Britains work horse and Hilco railway guard

Giles new releases measure 54mm approx. Postage in the UK is an additional 10%, 18% for overseas orders. Giles sets a minimum value of £10 for all orders.

Contact:

Dorset Soldiers
48 Fortuneswell
Portland
Dorset
DT51LZ

Tel: 01305 823003
www.dorsetsoldiers.com

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